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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Gregg Kreutz

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    Originally from Wisconsin, Gregg Kreutz is a New York Based painter, teacher and author. His book Problem Solving for Oil Painters, originally published in 1986 and now in its fifth printing, has become something of an art instruction standard. Kreutz graduated from N.Y.U. and continued his training at the Art Student’s League, where he studied…

  • Arthur Melville

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    Though he was also accomplished in oil, 19th century Scottish painter Arthur Melville is know in particular for his unique and influential style of watercolor painting. Melville’s approach was radical and very different from the mainstream of British watercolorists at the time. Though he worked in transparent watercolor, Melville painted on specially prepared paper which…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bonvin Chrysanthemum

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    Flowering Chrysanthemum, Léon Bonvin Watercolor, gouache, pen and iron gall ink, roughly 10×8 in (24×19 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click on “Explore Object” or “Download Image” for large version. Bonvin’s sensitive rendering of the plant is beautifully set off by his atmospheric suggestion of morning haze, through which we can just see…

  • Oil Painters of America Juried Salon 2015

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    The 2015 Juried Salon Show of the Oil Painters of America is on display at the Beverly Mcneil Gallery in Birmingham, AL until November 5, 2015. The show features over 270 paintings by members of the organization, which is dedicated to representational art. The gallery has an online presentation of works from the show. (Images…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Tea

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    Tea, James Tissot In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image for the high-resolution version. Tissot here copied and expanded on a portion of another of his own paintings, Bad News. The change in context from the narrative of the latter painting gives this one a very different…

  • Dan Beck

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    With a loose, gestural approach, North Carolina based painter Dan Beck appears to have applied paint to his canvasses with wild abandon — belying the carefully controlled values and nuanced color choices that make his compositions so effective. His vigorous application of rough-edged shapes dissolve many of his edges, leaving key sharp edged contrasts to…