Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Antoine Gros chalk portrait
Portrait of a Woman, Antoine Jean Gros In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Black chalk, 11 x 8 inches (28 x 19cm). I love the way the application of the chalk is alternately bold and delicate. For such a seemingly basic material, chalk can be astonishingly subtle. With the help of a stomp, Gros has…
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Eye Candy for Today: Curran’s Fair Critics
Fair Critics, Charles Courtney Curran In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. I just love paintings of artists’ studios, particularly those in which other paintings are depicted. I wish the Met’s site had more commentary about this one. Does “Fair Critics” refer to the critical judgement of those…
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Winter Solstice with the Pennsylvania Impressionists
Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we don’t have the harshest winters — certainly not like Minnesota or Maine or even northern New York State — but we do have winter; and never have Pennsylvania’s winters been more beautifully celebrated than by the Pennsylvania Impressionists, a group painters who formed an art colony in and around New…
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Charlotte Mann
I would venture a guess that most artists, at some point in their childhood, drew on walls in their house. (For my own experience, see my post about Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon.) Charlotte Mann is a British artist who draws on walls as an adult — and gets paid for it! Mann…
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Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s basket of fruit
Basket of Fruit, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) Image on Wikimedia Commons, with an article about the painting on Wikipedia. The original is in the Biblioteca Pinacoteca Academia Ambrosiana, Milan (not much in the way of info or images). This striking still life by the 16th century Italian master is in contention for being the…
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Adrienne Stein
Adrienne Stein is a painter living outside of Lancaster PA, whose recent works are primarily figurative, though you will also find still life and landscape in her website galleries. Many of her figures and portraits incorporate floral, still life or other elements, arranged decoratively, but rendered with an eye to traditional realism. Some of her…