Category: Gallery and Museum Art
-
Charlie Hunter (update)
We are spoiled by color. It’s everwhere we look, bright colors to attract our attention. Many contemporary painters make a point of using bright, vibrant colors to do just that. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but often we miss noticing the other characteristics of painting that we take for granted. Charlie Hunter is a…
-
Eye Candy for Today: detail from ink and color scroll by Wang Hui
The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji’nan to Mount Tai, (detail), Wang Hui; ink and color on silk. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is just the beginning image from a hand scroll that is roughly 26 inches high and over 45 feet long (68 x 1394 cm). Wang…
-
Dave Malan (update 2023)
Dave Malan is an artist an illustrator I’ve featured twice before, most recently back in 2015. Since then he has updated his website with more of his delightful illustrations, portraits, and drawings. As you might guess from my choice of example images, I’m particularly fond of his pencil portrait drawings. These range from brief sketches…
-
Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase pastel interior
Hall at Shinnecock, William Merrit Chase, pastel on canvas, 32 x 41″ (82 x 104 cm); in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The image on the page linked above is in a small slideshow, larger image here. In 1891 American painter William Merritt Chase moved to the Shinnecock hills on Long…
-
Hugo Charlemont
Hugo Charlemont wasn a Austrian painter and printmaker active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he painted a variety of subjects, his primary focus was on landscape. Hugo Charlemont is the brother of painter Eduard Charlemont.
-
Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti pencil portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11 inches (33 x 29 cm), in the colleciton of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. Though nominally the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti has…