Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Sorolla and America in Madrid
Sorolla and America is an exhibition of the work of the great Spanish painter related to his travels here in the US. It was organized jointly by the Meadows Museum in Dallas, The San Diego Museum of Art Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid. After its run at the Meadows Museum and the San Diego Museum of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s astronomer
Astronomer by Candlelight, Gerrit Dou On Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. A small gem (roughly 13×8″, 33x20cm) of 17th century chiaroscuro by an under-appreciated Dutch master. For more, see this page on Essential Vermeer, and my previous Eye Candy post on a Gerrit Dou genre…
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Eye Candy for Today: Prud’hon’s Portrait of Constance Mayer
Portrait of Constance Mayer, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon On WikiArt, large version here. Original is in the collection of the Louvre, though I can’t find a listing for it on the museum’s new website. I had the pleasure of seeing this drawing in person at a show of Prud’hon’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art some…
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Michael Godfrey
Michael Godfrey is a painter based in the D.C. area who at one point became fascinated with the landscape and mountains of the western U.S. His range of subject matter includes both the eastern and western mountains, their related fields and countryside, and particularly their creeks and streams. These he renders with great attention to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jacob van Walscapelle still life
Still Life with Fruit, Jacob van Walscapelle In the Rijksmuseum. Image is zoomable (and downloadable if you get a free account). Also a downloadable (but I think oersaturated) image here. Not only is this beautifully composed and rendered, with the fruits and stems gradually revealing themselves as you peer into the darker corners, I love…
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Ikenaga Yasunari
Japanese artist Ikenaga Yasunari paints portraits of women in serene, often wistful poses, in which the patterns of their clothing and surrounding textiles as as important within the compositions as the stylized design work of Mucha or Klimt. Though his approach is modern, Yasunari works in tools and techniques from the traditional Nihonga style, painting…