Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted forest landscape
Skogslandskap, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original, but I know it passed through Bukowski’s Auctions in the recent past, so I assume it’s in a private collection (not mine — sigh). I think the title can be translated as “forest landscape”. I never tire of Mønsted’s beautifully…
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David Cheifetz
Painter David Cheifetz approaches his subjects — primarily still life but also cityscape and figurative— with enthusiastic use of value, color contrasts and painterly texture. You may have seen still life by various artists, notably David Leffel and some of his students, in which objects are made luminous by carrying their dominant color into the…
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Simon Kozhin
Russian artist Simon Kozhin takes a painterly approach, often roughly textural in his location paintings, as he works with a variety of landscape subjects — both from his travels across Europe and the Mediterranean, and near his home in Moscow. He also takes on figurative and narrative subjects, and you can find an extensive selection…
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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…