Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Henri Martin
After working for a time in a more traditional style, and through a period in which he experimented with Symboism, French painter Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin eventually settled on a style that is generally considered Divisionism, an offshoot of French Impressionism associated with Pointillism. Like Pointillism, Divisionism was concerned, even more than Impressionism, with the placement…
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Eye Candy for Today: etching after Burne-Jones
The Cumaean Sibyl, etching and drypoint by Charles-Albert Waltner from a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones. An example of an etching designed by one artist and executed by another, as was common practice in the 19th century. Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of art. Image size is roughly 17×7 inches (44x17cm).
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Eye Candy for Today: Fanny Brate interior
A Day of Celebration, Fanny Brate Original is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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Grunewald’s The Resurrection, from the Isenheim Altarpiece
This painting, from the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, is one of the most striking depictions of the Resurrection in the history of art. I don’t think I can describe it better than I did in my post on Matthias Grünewald from 2006. The original is in the Musée Unterlinden, but the best reproductions I’ve…
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Bruce Crane
American painter Robert Bruce Crane became associated with the American Impressionists of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. In his later career, he developed into a Tonalist — diffusing his scenes of fall and winter landscapes into misty passages of light and color.
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Jan van Eyck’s The Last Judgement
This is the companion piece to Van Eyck’s Crucifixion, which I featured yesterday. Though the Crucifixion panel is a strong and impressive painting — particularly given the small size of the panels of this diptych, each of which is only 22×7″ (56x20cm) — this panel of the Last Judgement is just astonishing. I can’t say…