Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Nelson Shanks, 1937-2015
Nelson Shanks was a highly regarded painter or portraits, still life and landscape; noted in particular for his portraits of such figures as Luciano Pavarotti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Princess Diana, Pope John Paul II and U.S. Presidents Regan and Clinton. Nelson Shanks died yesterday, August 28, 2015 at the age of 77. I won’t go into…
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Phil Sandusky (update 2015)
Phil Sandusky is a plein air painter, landscape, cityscape and figurative artist based in New Orleans. I’ve written about Sandusky previously, most recently in 2014. Since then, he has unveiled a new website that showcases his work to better advantage. Sandusky paints the streets, parks and neighborhoods of New Orleans, and several other cities that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet In the Getty Museum, also on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons (also here). The Getty page offers a downloadble version that is very high resolution (60mb). The Getty version seems unnecessarily dark to me (I haven’t found museums to be particularly reliable when it comes to…
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So PineNut
So PineNut is the name given on his Behance gallery for a Japanese artist and illustrator based in Tokyo. Beyond that I have little background information. The images on his Behance gallery are often dark, both in emotional tone and subject; and, unfortunately, in the sense that some of the photographs of the work appear…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Henry Twachtman landscape and sketch
Arques-la-Bataille, John Henry Twachtman and preliminary version for same. When 19th century American painter John Henry Twachtman moved to Paris from Munich, he abandoned the dark palette of his original teachers, and adopted to some extent the brighter palette of the French Impressionists. However, he also moved away from their broken color and loaded brush…
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Art Renewal Center (update)
As I mentioned in my article on the 10 year anniversary of Lines and Colors, my first post was on August 22, 2005. It was about the Art Renewal Center, a long-standing bastion of representational realism on the web. At the time I had both enthusiasm and some reservations for ARC, and I suppose that…