Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Panini’s Interior of the Pantheon
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome; Giovanni Paolo Panini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Panini has used false perspective here to show more of the interior and the spectacular dome than would be possible otherwise, though from my recollection of my one visit some years ago, I’d say he’s also made the building feel…
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Naoto Hattori (update)
Naoto Hattori studied graphic design in his native Japan, and illustration here in the U.S. at the School of Visual Arts in NY. Hattori’s work carries some elements common to pop surrealism conventions, and some in common with visionary art, but I most enjoy those pieces in which he explore his own themes — in…
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Olga Wisinger-Florian
Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian originally trained for a career as a concert pianist, but changed to painting in a style influenced by Impressionism. She painted primarily floral still life and landscapes, many of the latter with floral themes.