Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen street scene
Amsterdam Street Scene, Adrianus Eversen In the National Gallery of Art, DC. I just love late-18th, early 19th century Dutch townscapes. They’re wonders of texture. Eversen’s are looser and more painterly than most.
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More graphite drawings from the Met
As I pointed out in my post on the same subject from March 30 of this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a treasure trove of drawings in its extensive collections, most of which are rarely seen because of the fragile nature of drawings and their susceptibility to light damage. The…