Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Meindert Hobbema watermill
A Watermill, Meindert Hobbema In the Rijksmuseum. The wonderful 17th century Dutch landscape painter Meindert Hobbema — who studied with Jacob van Ruisdael — gives us an idyllic view of a watermill, set amid trees and reeds bent in a breeze, perhaps in anticipation of a coming storm. Hobbema had a masterful touch with foliage,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphaelle Peale’s strawberries
Still Life with Strawberries and Nuts, Raphaelle Peale Link is to a large image found on NPR, there is another, smaller and somewhat darker image on Wikipedia. The original is in the Art Institute of Chicago. Raphaelle Peale, one of Charles Wilson Peale’s artistic (and artistically named) sons, was America’s first dedicated still life painter,…
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David Malan (update)
David Malan is a Utah based artist whose range os styles extends from elegant realist portraiture to delightfully exaggerated caricature. Malan was the subject of one of my earliest Lines and Colors posts, back in October of 2006. At the time, he was workign as a concept artist as well as an illustrator; whether that…
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Emilio Sánchez-Perrier
Emilio Sánchez-Perrier was a 19th century Spanish painter known for his quiet idyllic scenes of life along rivers and streams, as well as his views of Venice. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Seville, later in Madrid and in Paris in the ateliers of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Félix Ziem. It was apparently…
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Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s The Victorian Chair
The Victorian Chair, Childe Hassam Link is to the Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (which also has a zoom feature, though the Google one is a bit smoother). What a wonderful portrait — sensitive and delicate from the intended viewing distance — but…
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Joseph Alleman
Utah painter Joseph Alleman works in both watercolor and oil, though watercolor seems to be his primary medium. Many painters in watercolor seek to take advantage of the transparent brilliance it makes possible, resulting in lots of high-chroma watercolors. Alleman takes a different track, seeking in watercolor its delicate and subtle qualities, variation in soft…