Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli idealized portrait
Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), Sandro Botticelli Tempera on wood panel, 32×21 in (82×54 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. There is also an article devoted to the painting on Wikipedia. This exquisite…
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Chien Chung-Wei
Chien Chung-Wei is a Taiwanese watercolorist who early in his career emulated the painstakingly detailed methods of 19th century European watercolor painters like William Henry Hunt and Myles Birket Foster, but as his career progressed moved to a looser, more open style emphasizing the gesture and light of his subjects. He most often paints urban…
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Stefanie Lieberman
Stefanie Lieberman is an artist based in Philadelphia who focuses on landscape and animals. In her landscapes, Lieberman takes a loose, gestural approach to her brush work, ofetn giving her foliage in particular a lively feeling of texture. In her compositions with water, she often contrasts these textures with the smooth sheen of undisturbed surfaces.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Aegidius Sadeler rhino
Fable of the Rhinoceros and Elephants, Aegidius Sadeler Etching, roughly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (96x112mm), 1608. In the Rijksmuseum. Today — I am informed in a tweet from the Rijksmusem — is World Rhino Day. In celebration they point to a selection of rhino images from their collection, from which I focused on…
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Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2015
Women Painting Women is the title and subject of a group show at the RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY, that runs from October 10 to November 4, 2015. The large example images on the gallery’s own website are watermarked to an extent that renders them essentially pointless. However, there is a selection of unmarked…