Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Travis Seymour
Travis Seymour is an American artist who studied both in the U.S. and Italy, and currently resides in London, UK. Seymour works with both still life and figurative subjects, and his website features galleries of both, as well as a selection of his refined drawings. He also has a blog that features additional images, as…
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Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome Mariano Barbasán
Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome, Mariano Barbasán On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid. I love the bright, sun-splashed feeling of the walls and water, and the textural, painterly quality overall.
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Daily Painting, Carol Marine
I’ve been following the “daily painting” phenomenon since 2005, when I wrote about a blog called A Painting a Day by Virginia painter Duane Keiser. Keiser had committed himself to painting one small painting each day and posting it to his blog. I commented at the time that I thought this was a terrific idea,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s The Accolade
The Accolade, Edmund Blair Leighton Image file on Wikipedia, from here. For more, see my posts on Edmund Blair Leighton, and Eye Candy: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor.
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer’s Frontispiece from Fifteen Etchings
Frontispiece (from Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; image area is roughly 4 x 10 in. (35 x 25 cm). Whenever I see etchings like this, I’m reminded how much I love the character of etched lines; though similar in many ways, so different from…
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Armand Point
Armand Point was an Algerian born French painter, draftsman and decorative artist who was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, but took much inspiration from Leonardo and other masters of the early Renaissance. He is generally considered a Symbolist, which is a loosely defined school of art, and his style varies from the influences mentioned above to…