Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Kehinde Wiley (update)
Kehinde Wiley is a New York based artist who I first profiled in 2012. Wiley paints large scale portraits and figures in which he incorporates complex, detailed and often high-chroma patterns and decorative elements. In the rich earth reds and browns in which he paints the dark skin tones of his subjects, Wiley uses a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques
Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques (attributed to) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin. The portrait of the man has considerably more force and presence than that of the woman, leading me to think that it…
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Denise La Rue Mahlke
Texas artist Denise La Rue Mahlke works in pastel and charcoal in creating her sensitive, atmospheric landscapes. She uses the character of her mediums to advantage to create soft-edged, textural compositions that often have a tonalist feel, particularly when combined with her subtle color sense and often restrained value ranges. My personal reaction to many…
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Rembrandt’s Christ and St Mary Magdalen at the Tomb
Christ and St Mary Magdalen at the Tomb, Rembrandt van Rijn The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version of the file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Royal Collection Trust, London, which also has a zooming feature. In the story of Mary Magdalene arriving…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher From the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Too often, Escher’s skills as a draftsman and printmaker are overshadowed by his brain-twisting themes. This one, though still weird and cool, is more straightforward than some. Apparently drawn from life, with the difficult spherical perspective, it features the common cheat in…
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Walter Launt Palmer
American Impressionist painter Walter Launt Palmer studied formally with Charles Loring Elliott, but received his most influential instruction in landscape painting from Frederick Edwin Church, who was a friend of his father, sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He was also exposed to other noted artists in the circle, including John Frederick Kensett. Walter Palmer also studied…