Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Duane Keiser (update)
I first wrote about Virginia painter Duane Keiser back in 2005, when I noticed his blog, a painting a day, on which he was featuring small, postcard size paintings — one a day as he painted them on a makeshift cigar box easel — and placing them for sale on eBay. At the time, this…
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Renato Muccillo
The first thing that struck me about the paintings of Canadian artist Renato Muccillo was his wonderfully subtle sense of value, as well as the range of expression he achieves with an understated use of color. Though some of his compositions are dramatically lit, with dynamic cloud formations portrayed in a full range of values,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Boucher’s Madame Bergeret
Madame Bergeret, François Boucher On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. I think Boucher’s middle name was “Eye Candy” (or perhaps “friandise visuelle”). Many of his paintings were such calculatedly overt bonbons that you just have to give in and enjoy without worrying…
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Rijksmuseum’s selection for US President’s visit
The current President of the United States is visiting the Netherlands (I’m reluctant to even mention his name, lest it bring out of the woodwork the internet trolls who feel that any mention of his name is a call to arms to use the comments section to decry how the Affordable Care Act marks the…
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William McGregor Paxton
Like many American painters who started their careers in the late 19th century, William McGregor Paxton began his studies in the U.S. — in his case at the Cowles Art School, where he studied with Dennis Miller Bunker — but traveled to Europe to pursue further study. There he attended the Académie Julian and the…