Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Peter “Pete the Street” Brown
Peter brown is British painter, whose dedication to location painting and penchant for working in all manner of weather conditions, often in the streets in the midst of the bustle of city activity, has earned him the nickname of “Pete the Street”. Brown paints in his home base of Bath in southwestern England, and on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rose Adélaïde Ducreux self portrait
Self portrait with a Harp, Rose Adélaïde Ducreux In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download arrow under the image for larger version. Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, who studied with her father, painter Joseph Ducreux, here portrays herself with a harp and in a luxuriously finessed gown that dominates the work. I suspect that, like…
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Andrew Bonneau
Andrew Bonneau is an Australian artist currently living in New York, where he studied at the Grand Central Academy of Art. I was struck first by his still life paintings, in which he gives attention to delicate nuances of light in the presentation of his forms. He carries that same attention to the illumination of…
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Paul Bond
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently living in California, where he studied art, Paul Bond brings to his light-filled style of Magic Realism an obvious affection for the reality-teasing twists of Magritte, and a fascination with certain repeated themes. In particular, he finds ongoing variations on the theme of piled rocks, rendered with a tactile…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June
Flaming June, Frederic Leighton The link is to a file on Wikimedia Commons. (I think the image is over-saturated, and I’ve taken the liberty of correcting it somewhat in the images above.) The original is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, though the museum doesn’t appear to have their collection online.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, along with a page devoted to the painting. The original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files. As much as Homer is noted for his watercolors…