Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat, Willaim Holman Hunt; oil on canvas; roughly 34 x 55 inches (86 x 140cm). Link is to image file on Wikipedia, original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. From the Bible: book of Leviticus, which is where we get the general concept as we use the term today. For…
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Richard Thorn
While it’s not unusual for artists to transition from a career in commercial art to gallery art, English artist Richard Thorn came to painting from a career as a jazz musician. Thorn uses watercolor in a manner I particularly enjoy — lots of crisp, controlled edges balanced with softer ones and still maintaining a feeling…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francois Bouçher chalk drawing
Male Nude, Francois Bouçher; red chalk over black chalk on paper; roughly 20 x 13 inches ( 50 x 33 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There are both zoomable and downloadable imges on their site. 18th century French artist Francois Bouçher, who is more commonly noted for his Rococo…
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Edward Okuń
Considered both a Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter, Edward Okuń was a Polish artist who studied in Poland, German and France. He lived and worked in Rome for 20 years, and traveled widely in other parts of Europe before returning to Poland in the later part of his career. He was active in the late…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugen von Blaas genre painting
The Italian seamstress, Eugen von Blaas; oil on canvas; roughly 16 x 12 in. (50 x 32 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons from which there is link to a large image. The image was originally sourced from a Bonham’s past auction, so I assume the painting is now in a private collection.…
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Peter Jablokow
Peter Jablokow is a watercolor painter from Illinois with a particular fascination for industrial forms, often weathered and rusted, which he renders with a feeling for texture as well as color and values. Many of his paintings use dramatic compositions with severe perspective and unusual angles of view. In some cases the entire composition is…