Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Hans Andersen Brendekilde
Hans Andersen Brendekilde was a Danish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His actual surname was Andersen, but he took on the name of his home village to avoid being confused with another artist. He originally painted scenes of social realism, showing the struggles of workers and farmers, then moved into…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with Two Circles
Self-portrait with Two Circles, Rembrandt We don’t have access on the web to an image at the level of high resolution available for the Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53 that I wrote about a few days ago, but we can see enough to appreciate more of the master’s superb painting skills. Rembrandt was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw’s Stapleton Park
Stapleton Park near Pontefract Sun, John Atkinson Grimshaw On WikiArt. The original is in a private collection. Grimshaw loved to do these scenes of softly lit Autumn evenings with a lone figure, usually a woman seen from behind, walking down an empty stretch of road. See also my previous Eye Candy post of Grimwhaw’s Evening…
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Zinaida Serebriakova
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) was a Ukrainian/Russian painter active in the early 20th century. Born near what is now Kharkiv, Ukraine into a well-to-do family, she studied at an art school under the direction of Ilya Repin, and went on to study with noted portraitist Osip Braz. She also traveled to Italy and Paris,…
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American Masters 2014 at the Salmagundi Club
American Masters is a yearly exhibit organized by the Salmagundi Club in NYC. I’m remiss in not mentioning this year’s earlier as it ends on October 24, 2014. For those who can’t see the exhibit in person, there is a nice selection of the work online. I’ve pulled out a sampling for the images here.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53
Self-portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt painted this remarkable self-portrait in 1659, after he had suffered frorm personal financial collapse. Much can be read into his expression, but the painting itself is a triumph. As he had done on other occasions, Rembrandt posed himself in the manner of a work by a previous master, in this…