Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Agim Sulaj
Originally from Albania and now based in Itally, Agim Sulaj is a realist painter who also does award-winning editorial cartoons and illustrations. The galleries on the artist’s website are divided between paintings and illustrations and cartoons. Sulaj’s paintings are in oil and often large in scale; his illustrations and cartoons are in acrylic, tempera and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Cremorne pastoral
Cremorne pastoral, Arthur Streeton Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Another beautifully painterly and economical landscape by brilliant Australian painter Arthur Streeton.
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Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam gouache study
Columbian Exposition, Chicago; Childe Hassam Gouache on tan paper, 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27.0 x 35.6 cm). Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Almost monochromatic — though the tan paper and the use of blue give it a sensation of subtle color —this study…
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Nicolas Martin
While many painters chase the character of light in the landscape, French painter Nicolas Martin more often seeks out the elusive qualities of artificial light in night-darkened streets and filtered sunlight in curtained interiors. His figures are revealed in the light, either as direct portraits or smaller within the context of the composition. Martin studied…
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Ray Roberts (update)
I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a demo by California plein air painter Ray Roberts, who I initially wrote about in 2010. The demo was part of the schedule of the Wayne Plein Air Festival, the major such event here in the Philadelphia area, for which Roberts was this year’s juror. Roberts set up…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel graphite drawing
Carl John Arnold, Adolph Menzel In the Morgan Library and Museum, use Zoom tab or download link. Menzel gives us a superbly adept rendering in pencil. The drawing feels at once finished and casual. Either the subject had a large head, or Menzel — after focusing on the portrait — compressed the figure somewhat to…