Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Colin Page (update 2014)
Maine based painter Colin page, who I wrote about back in 2007 and 2008, paints crisp, bright landscapes and still life, with a painterly touch and often a high-chroma palette. His paintings of Maine’s rocky coast, small harbors and the surrounding landscape are set in strongly geometric compositions, which you can choose to read either…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Grace Rose
Grace Rose, Frederick Sandys On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.
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Tom Roberts
Born in England in the middle of the 19th century, Tom Roberts moved to Australia with his parents when he was 13, and became one of Australia’s most prominent artists. Roberts, with his good friend Frederick McCubbin and several other artists, notably Walter Withers and Arthur Streeton, formed the core group of artist known as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Peploe’s Black Bottle
The Black Bottle, Samuel John Peploe Link is to Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries Scotland. Wonderfully fluid and economical handling of this table setting subject by Scottish painter Samuel Peploe. It carries a feeling of the still life work of Manet, who was likely…
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Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Liz Haywood-Sullivan is a pastel painter who creates landscapes and cityscapes with an eye to the vibrant color and graphic textural qualities the medium makes available. Depending on size and subject matter, her approach can either be more refined or more sketch-like, with an emphasis on that fascinating area where the qualities of pastel cross…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sassoferrato’s Virgin in Prayer
The Virgin in Prayer, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato This beautiful painting is in the National Gallery, London, where is is currently part of their exhibition on painting materials, Making Color. This is primarily because of the artist’s use of genuine Ultramarine Blue in the robes. Before the formulation of the modern synthetic version, French…