Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Cristóbal Pérez García
Cristóbal Pérez García is a contemporary Spanish painter who captures his landscapes — and in particular, his urban scenes — with fresh, immediate brush work, lively color and a sure feeling of naturalistic light and shadow. When viewing the galleries of work on his website, be sure to open your browser window as wide as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugène Ciceri winter scene
Winter Scene with Two Men, Eugène Ciceri In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Ciceri’s wonderful evocation of winter is at once both drawing and painting; naturalistic and stylized; controlled and free; monochromatic and yet rich with “color” in a way similar to Chinese ink paintings.
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Paul-César Helleu
Though he painted landscapes and still life, and worked in oil, French artist Paul-César Helleu was known primarily for his beautiful portraits of turn of the century society women, done primarily in pastel, chalk and drypoint etching. Helleu entered the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts at an early age, studying in the academic tradition under Jean-Léon…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Krøyer’s Luncheon
A luncheon. The artist, his wife and the writer Otto Benzon, Peder Severin Krøyer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen. Group portrait, self portrait, room interior or still life — Kroyer’s simple but beautifully painted domestic scene works brilliantly in…
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Stepan Kolesnikoff (Kolesnikov)
I came across the work of Stephan Fedorovich Kolesnikoff (alternately spelled Kolesnikov or Kolesnykov) while poking through some Russian language blogs, and had a “Woah! Who is this?” reaction. After searching up a bit more of his work, Kolesnikoff immediately went on my list of favorite artists who work in gouache. Though he also did…
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Superbowl art bet 2015: Bierstadt and Homer
In what has become a fledgling tradition — started in 2010 at the suggestion of Modern Art Notes writer Tyler Green — major museums from the two regions of the U.S. competing in this years Superbowl have engaged in an art loan wager. Each museum wagers a three month loan of a major artwork from…