Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Mignon still life
Still Life with Fruit and a Cup on Cock’s Legs, Abraham Mignon In the Rijksmuseum. Ostensibly a still life, Mignon’s not-so-still composition is actually teeming with insect, arachnid and mollusk life, in addition to the beautifully rendered plant forms and man made objects — not to mention the cock’s leg base for the decorative cup…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whittredge’s Trout Pool
The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the younger generation of the Hudson River School painters, Whittredge often favored intimate forest scenes as much as large dramatic landscapes. Here, through the framing device of the dark mature trees, their leafy canopy and the fallen log, we are invited to…
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Paul Gustave Fischer
Danish painter Paul Gustave Fischer, active during the late 19th and early 20 centuries, was noted for his urban scenes, many of them set in the light of overcast days, rainy or snowy conditions, with soft edges, muted colors and restrained value ranges. He painted frequently in Copenhagen, as well as in Paris, Florence and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Clarkson Stanfield’s Mount St Michael
Mount St Michael, Cornwall, Clarkson Stanfield On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. Stanfield drew on his eight years as a sailor to create this scene in which he has set the offshore island in the midst of a tempest. Along with a number of…
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Scott Conary
Portland, Oregon based painter Scott Conary paints landscapes, animals, figurative works and still life. His website portfolio offers work in several sections. Conary’s still life subjects include common subjects like fruit, but also less commonly explored items like wrenches, spark plugs and cuts of meat. All are handled with brusque, painterly textures and subtle variations…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Adam Kruseman portrait
Portrait of Alida Christina Assink, Jan Adam Kruseman In the Rijksmuseum. Nicely refined and deftly handled society portrait by a 19th century Dutch painter, working in many ways in the style of popular English portrait paintings of the time.