Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlsen roses
Still Life with Yellow Roses, Emil Carlsen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which doesn’t appear to have an image online. I wish more of Carlsen’s beautifully painterly still life paintings were available in high resolution. For now, I’ll just be glad…
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Sargent watercolors at MFA, Houston
Just a note for those in the Houston, Texas area that a beautiful exhibition of over 100 watercolors by one of the greatest masters of the medium, John Singer Sargent, is still at the Museum of Fine Arts until May 26, 2014. I saw the version of the exhibit that was at the Brooklyn Museum…
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Trailers for Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner is an upcoming film — recently debuted at Cannes, and set for release in the fall of 2014 — based on the last 25 years in the life of the renowned British “painter of light”, JMW Turner. The film is directed by Mike Leigh, who has apparently wanted to do a film on…
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Patrick Woodroffe, 1940-2014
English artist Patrick Woodroffe began his career as a fantasy and science fiction illustrator, as well as contributing to a number of album covers. He eventually developed into a wonderfully idiosyncratic gallery artist, taking influences from medieval art, Bosch, Bruegel, Van Eyck and others. Patrick Woodroffe died last Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the age…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor
My Next-Door Neighbor, Edmund Blair Leighton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. I love the feeling of implied narrative here — left open for the viewer to fill out the story. A passing glance? The beginnings of pursuit? An established connection? A past flame? Infidelity? Envy? A fondness for dogs?
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My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine
I’ve written another article for Drawing magazine. This one appears in the new Spring 2014 issue, that is now in bookstores and newsstands. In the article, titled “Fresh Ink”, I profile seven contemporary artists working in ink, in a variety of approaches and styles. This even includes “digital ink”, in the drawings of Marcos Mateu-Mestre,…