Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Oil Painters of America Juried Salon 2015
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Tea
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…
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Dan Beck
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…
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Hans Heysen
Hans Heysen is another of those wonderful turn of the 20th century Australian artists that we just don’t hear enough about here in the U.S. Born in Germany, Heysen came to Australia with his parents at the age of 7. He studied in Australia and for four year, in Europe. He worked in oil, charcoal…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany glass mosaic
Garden Landscape, Louis Comfort Tiffany & Studio Favrille-glass mosaic, 103×114 in (263×290 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiffany may have made this in preparation for work on the even larger Dream Garden mosaic, here in Philadelphia, on which he collaborated with Maxfield Parrish. I love the subtle, painterly representation of…
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Shushana Rucker
Like a musician who prefers the emotional tone of downtempo compositions, Philadelphia based painter and printmaker Shushana Rucker finds visual fascination in the muted contrasts of overcast skies and the overlooked subjects of industrial buildings, railways and related structures. Having had a fascination with railroads as a child, I particularly respond to her evocative portrayals…