Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Marcus Larson’s Waterfall in Småland
Waterfall in Småland, Marcus Larson Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Swedish landscape painter Marcus Larson — who was at one time a student of the German painter Andreas Achenbach — gives us a wonderfully dramatic landscape in the Romantic tradition,…
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Anatoly Korobkin
Anatoly Korobkin studied at the Krasnodar Art College and The Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; and has subsequently taught at the latter school as well as the Moscow School of Watercolor Andriaka. Korobkin has a richly painterly style, with free brush work applied over a foundation of firm classical draftsmanship. Korobkin is married…
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Jehan-Georges Vibert
19th century French painter Jehan-Georges (Jean-Georges) Vibert was born in Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He was known in particular for his satirical portrayals of Roman Catholic clergy — particularly Cardinals — who he portrayed indulging in lavish lifestyles rather than performing their assigned duties. These paintings were popular in France at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frans Snyders’ Still Life with Small Game and Fruit
Still Life with Small Game and Fruit, Frans Snyders In the Rijksmuseum. It’t interesting to compare this painting with a similar subject by Snyders in the National Gallery of Art, DC: Still Life with Grapes and Game.
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Eye Candy for Today: Peter Birmann’s The Devil’s Bridge
The Devil’s Bridge in the Schöllenen Gorge on the Way across the St. Gotthard Pass with a Mule Train, Peter Birmann Pen, brush, gray and brown inks. Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Though the rendering is distinctly european, the…