Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Thomas R. Dunlay
Thomas R. Dunlay is a painter from Boston who, on finding the instruction offered in the art school in which he initially enrolled lacking in the traditional methods he sought, turned to individual instruction — first with Boston painter Robert Douglas Hunter, and then with Hunter’s teacher, the renowned R.H. Ives Gammell. Dunlay paints brilliant,…
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Welcoming Spring with John William Waterhouse
Today marks the Vernal Equinox. Sigh. I can’t think of a painter who does “Spring” better than J.W. Waterhouse, and I’ve selected a few of his wonderful paintings depicting the season, or just young women and flowers. Sigh. For more Waterhouse, see my previous posts, below; and for an additional variety of paintings to celebrate…