Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Richard Haas
New York based artist Richard Haas works at a nexus of painting and architecture. He is best known for his large scale murals, many of which use a trompe l’oeil approach that actually changes the perception of the building itself, rather than simply using it as a canvas. He also does the latter, however, presenting…
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Eye Candy for Today: Haseltine Venetian sunset
Santa Maria della Salute, Sunset; William Stanley Haseltine Beautifully Turneresque light in this view of Venice by American landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Via @metmuseum]
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Lisa Gloria
Lisa GLoria is a painter from Illinois. Though she paints a variety of subjects, her focus is on still life. She is largely self-taught, and has developed a style with a nice balance between refinement and painterly immediacy. She now shares her experience in “virtual workshops” and videos, as well as in occasional process articles…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing
View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum. A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground…
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Paul W. McCormack (update)
Since I last wrote about Hudson River Valley based portrait artist Paul McCormack way back in 2006, he has established a new website which, I’m glad to say, features much larger images of his work (click on the images for enlargements). McCormack also maintains his McCormack Studio website, which includes additional paintings in watercolor and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hanna Hirsch Pauli invites us for breakfast
Breakfast-Time, Hanna Hirsch Pauli There is an often overlooked sub-genre of painting that I particularly enjoy; for lack of a better term, it might be called “outdoor still life”. I’m hard pressed to think of a better example than this stunningly beautiful painting of a 19th century breakfast table in a sun-dappled garden by Swedish…
