Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: early Pissarro river scene
The Marne at Chennevières, Camille Pissarro On the Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Similar to my fondness for Monet’s early work, I just love these early landscape paintings by Camille Pissarro, before he adopted his mature Impressionist style. Colorful and painterly, they still…
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H. R. Giger, 1940-2014
H.R. Giger was an influential Swiss painter, sculptor, set designer and concept designer. Giger is most known for his designs for the film Aliens, and its successors, as well as working on a number of less well known film projects. He also did work used on numerous album covers and has left his mark on…
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Luis Meléndez
18th century painter Luis Egidio Meléndez was one of the greatest Spanish still life painters, and to my mind, one of the great still life painters of history, though he received little recognition in his own time. His mastery of texture, light and composition elevated his subjects — fruit, melons, fish, game and Chardin-like kitchen…
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Eye Candy for Today: Morisot double portrait
The Mother and Sister of the Artist, Berthe Morisot In the National Gallery of Art, DC. There is also a reasonably large version, though less true in color, on Wikipaintings. The figure of the artist’s mother shows the touch of Morisot’s friend and mentor, Edouard Manet, who repainted passages of the double portrait the day…
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Eye Candy for Today: Roland Wakelin landscape
The fruit seller of Farm Cove, Roland Wakelin On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable version on Wikipedia. The original is in the National Gallery of Australia. The gallery’s website gives interesting background on the painting, and Wakelin’s approach to painting it with the same limited palette of Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Cadmium Yellow that…
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Degas/Cassatt at the National Gallery of Art, DC
At a point in her career when she was struggling to find her artistic direction, and had been refused at the Paris Salon for the first time in several years, American artist mary Cassatt was invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit outside the Salon with the new group of upstart painters who would come to…