Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Cortès Parisian street scene
La Republique, Edouard-Léon Cortès On Galerie Ary Jan. In their similarity to each other, and those of Antoine Blanchard, Eugene Galien-Laloue and others, you could call these Belle Époque Parisian street scenes formulaic — but it’s a formula, that when well done, I don’t tire of. Often set in the rain or overcast, with blue-gray…
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Joseph Noel Paton
Joseph Noel Paton was a Scottish painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He became friends with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood co-founder John Everett Millais while they were students at the Royal Academy. Though he declined an offer to formally join the Pre-Raphaelites, Paton’s early work, in particular, shows their influence. Paton’s early literary, historical and religious subjects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Wijnand Nuijen landscape
River Landscape with Ruin, Wijnand Nuijen In the Rijksmuseum. I’m frequently delighted by how painterly, and essentially modern, many early 19th century Dutch landscapes are.
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Pam Ingalls
Encouraged by her artist parents, Pam Ingalls studied at Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy and the art department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She continued independent study with, among others, Ron Lukas, a protégé of Russian-American painter Sergi Bongart. The influence of the Russian colorist tradition comes through in her rich palette.…
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Thomas Woodruff
Like many artists, Thomas Woodruff finds fascination in pursuing the possibilities offered by a particular subject in a series of related works, or “variations”. He is best known for several series in which he explores images that can be viewed differently when flipped vertically (similar to Gustave Verbeek’s classic early 20th century newspaper comic, The…
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Hokusai exhibit in Paris
Katsushika Hokusai is arguably the most widely known and influential Japanese artist outside of Japan. Usually referred to simply as Hokusai, the artist actually changed his name several times through his career. He was a proponent of the Ukiyo-e school of woodblock prints. A new exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris,…