Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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April Fool-the-eye Day: trompe l’oeil by Andrea Pozzo
Instead of a fake post, or some similar nonsense, let’s celebrate April Fool’s Day with a nice bit of “fool the eye” (trompe l’oeil) by Andrea Pozzo. This is his false dome for the Jseuit Church in Vienna, a fresco painted on a gently curved surface on the ceiling. This is essentially a anamorphic projection,…
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More “not the usual Van Goghs”
I’ve written before about how most book publishers tend to take a safe, “greatest hits” approach to publishing works by Vincent van Gogh, leaving much of the fascinating variety of his subjects unseen. In honor of Van Gogh’s birthday, here is another modest selection of some works of his you don’t often see. Most of…
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Graphite drawings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Today, March 30, is — we are told — “National Pencil Day“, marking the advent of a patent on the pencil with an attached eraser. I’ll put aside the fact that this hardly represents the most significant event in the history of the pencil, and the inaccuracy of the linked WN article about Lipman creating…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Blechen interior
Interior of the Palm House, Carl Blechen On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. I had seen reproductions of this painting before, and has assumed it was a watercolor from the translucency of the leaves and the graphic nature of some of…
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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…