Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: John Everett Millais’ Ophelia
Ophelia, John Everett Millais Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable version (22 MB) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, London. Prompted by yesterday’s post on the mezzotint print by John Stephenson after this painting by Millais, and the fact that I last mentioned the painting back in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ophelia, Stephenson mezzotint after Millais
Ophelia, James Stephenson, after John Everett Millais In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mezzotint, etching and Stipple, roughly 21 x 34 inches (53 x 86 cm). In a kind of artistic collaboration that was not uncommon at the time, highly skilled etcher and engraver James Stephenson has interpreted as a print what is perhaps the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Wapping
Wapping on Thames, James McNeill Whistler In the national Gallery of Art, DC. The name refers to a rough and tumble dock area of the Thames River in London, where Whistler lived and worked for a time, though I think the location is actually a nearby inn rather than the artist’s studio. In a marked…
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David Kassan (update)
Despite having previously written about him in 2008 and again in 2010, I still struggled a bit in trying to describe David Kassan’s approach to his portrait and figurative work. He certainly doesn’t flatter his subject, but neither does his deliberately seek out the grotesque (as, say, Lucian Freud). Words like “honest” or “direct” don’t…
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Eugène Galien Laloue
Though others have taken on the style and subject matter over time — continuing to this day — there are four artists that I associate with a particular approach to painting the subject of Paris during the Belle Epoch (around the turn of the twentieth century): Luigi Loir, Edouard Leon Cortès; Eugène Galien Laloue and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Théodore Chassériau pencil portrait
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Cloak and Bonnet, Théodore Chassériau In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; graphite on wove paper; approximately 18 x 15 in. (46 x 39 cm). Chassériau has given us a beautifully sensitive pencil portrait. The commentary on the museum’s website suggests that Chassériau shows more interest in the subject’s…