Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Jeffrey Hayes (update 2014)
Jeffrey Hayes is a contemporary still life painter who is very much a student of the still life masters of the past, particularly the great Dutch painters of the 17th century. Hayes explores the use of light, shadow and texture in defining his forms, at times in chiaroscuro, at other times in more muted value…
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Eye Candy for Today: Durand’s Beeches
The Beeches, Asher Brown Durand In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download links under the image on their page. Durand is my favorite of the Hudson River painters, partly because of the influence of Constable, and partly because he was more likely than most of the others to paint intimate scenes…
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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a new museum, scheduled to open in Chicago in 2018, that will house a collection of art owned by film director George Lucas. The collection and the museum are dedicated to art that, like film, is narrative in some way, telling stories whether overtly or by suggestion. This…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck’s Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah, Anton van Dyck On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Van Dyck’s dramatic tableau shows the influence of Titian, and Van Dyck’s teacher, Rubens.
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Thomas W Schaller (update)
From my point of view, there are schools of watercolor painting in which the approach is too loose — with ill defined forms and insufficient attention to edges — and others in which the approach feels too restrained — locked into rigid delineation. Watercolor at its best, I think, is found not only in between…
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Eye Candy for Today: Georgia Okeeffe Deer’s Skull
Deer’s Skull with Pedernal, Georgia Okeeffe In the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Though it looks almost like watercolor in the handling, particularly of the skull itself, this was done in oil on canvas. According the the museum’s page for this piece, “Pedernal” is the name of the flat-topped mountain in the background, which Okeeffe…