Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Tomek Sętowski
Tomek Sętowski is a contemporary Polish painter, who would be most readily classified as a magic realist. His compositions are often filled with cascades of multiple objects, figures and architectural structures. In many cases, he portrays objects or figures composed of other objects. His color palate ranges from subdued and almost monochrome to broad arrays…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch interior
Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, Pieter de Hooch In the Rijskmuseum. This is another of Pieter de Hooch’s marvelous “keyhole paintings”, in which we are not only invited to enter the painting, but to effectively pass through it — first in the form of the window behind the women, which offers a glimpse…
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Bill Cone
Bill Cone is a visual development and background artist for Pixar Animation Studios, and is also a dedicated plein air pastel painter. There is often some question about whether pastel is “drawing” or “painting”. It can be either, of course (or even both simultaneously), but I think the distinction has more to do with handling…
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Eye Candy for Today: Roslin’s Lady with the Veil
The Lady with the Veil, Alexander Roslin Zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Roslin, a Swedish Rococo portrait painter who spent much of his career in France, used his wife, pastel painter Marie-Suzanne Giroust, as his model for this enigmatic and alluringly…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cropsey’s Starrucca Viaduct
Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania, Jasper Francis Cropsey On Google Art Project, high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Given the level of detail, Cropsey’s painting of the Susquehanna River Valley, and the great railroad viaduct that spanned the river in northeastern Pennsylvania, is smaller in scale that might…
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Eye Candy for Today: Herbert Railton pen and ink illustration
Entance to the Poets Corner, from A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey; Herbert Railton Railton was a well known 19th century British artist and illustrator, and is one of my favorite pen and ink artists. His wonderful architectural renderings are a brilliant balance of detail and suggestion. Intricate textural passages can lead directly into areas…