Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead (Alte Nationalgalerie version)
Isle of the Dead, Arnold Böcklin Today is Halloween, or Hallow’een, short for “All Hallows’ Evening” — the evening before a day dedicated to remembrance of the dead (and marked by costumery and other activities meant to mock death itself). With the theme of the dead in mind, here is one of five different versions…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sisley’s Rest Along the Stream
Le repos au bord du ruisseau. Lisière de bois (Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood) Alfred Sisley Among the original core group of French Impressioinist painters, English born Alfred Sisley has long been a personal favorite of mine. There is something direct and to the point about his work that particularly appeals to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel’s View from a Window
View from a Window in Marienstrasse, Adolph Menzel Image on Surprised by Time blog (scroll down), direct link here. Gouache over chalk on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm). Original is in the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur
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David Riedel
Originally from Indiana, still life and landscape painter David Riedel studied art in Arizona, and later at the Art Students League in New York, where he studied with noted painter and teacher David Leffel. You can see Leffel’s influence in Riedel’s nuanced attention to value relationships and visual flow through his compositions. Riedel also exhibits…
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Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Tree, Johann Scheuren
Study of a Tree, Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren Watercolor over pencil, 124 x 200 in (316 x 512cm). On Google art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Though I’m not quite as taken with her work as I am with the paintings of her contemporary, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, I do admire Labille-Guiard’s skill with paint, and with chalk drawing. At…