Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Fred Lynch, Drawings From the Road to Rome
There is something special and wonderful about pen and wash drawing, in particular when done with brown or reddish brown washes, that gives it much of the power of painting while simultaneously keeping the unique visual charm of drawing. I’ve occasionally pointed out particular favorites from history, but it’s great to have contemporary practitioners of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny landscape
Les péniches, Charles-François Daubigny Image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Louvre. Sometimes I think history could have just bypassed Impressionism, and gone straight from Daubigny to contemporary plein air styles.
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Francisco Goya
The life and career of Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Luciente bridge the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th, a time in Spain of wars, upheaval, inquisition and radical change. Goya chronicled much of it in a mercurial style — from elegantly finessed to slashingly rough — that reflected…
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Eye Candy for Today: Escher’s Three Worlds
Three Worlds, M.C. Escher Lithograph, roughly 14×10 inches (36x25cm). Image on Wikiart, larger here. While it’s not one of Escher’s more obvious brain twisting visual conundrums, it’s a teaser nonetheless — also beautiful, subtle, and one of my favorites. In addition to the thought provoking subject, superb drawing and beautifully handled reflection and surface perspective,…
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Casey Childs
Casey Childs is a painter based in Utah who focuses on portrait and figurative subjects. His approach to paint handling varies from brusque to refined, in keeping with the feeling generated by his subject and composition. Often his figures will be painted in the context of room interiors, in the course of which he also…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s drawing of the Porta Portello
The Porta Portello with the Brenta Canal in Padua, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) On Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Albertina, Vienna. In pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes. Unfortunately, neither the museum or Google Art Project give the dimensions. To me it has the…