Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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James Freeman
Pennsylvania artist James Freeman describes his work as “Magic Realist oil paintings, a combination of landscape and still life”. Freeeman’s fascinating, often complex, compositions consist primarily of plant forms — though they often incorporate man-made objects — in which the context of our view of plants is shifted by his selection of point of view,…
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18th century paintings meet Google Street View
A reditt and imgur user who lives in London and goes by the handle “shystone” has posted two series of photomontages in which 18th century pantings are superimposed over Google Street View images of the same scene, creating in each a sort of artistic portal into the past. One set is of London, with paintings…
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Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter
Aficionados of the genre, and I certainly count myself one, will sometimes refer to a triumvirate of painters as “Masters of the Loaded Brush”: John Singer Sargent, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida and Anders Zorn. (See my posts here on Lines and Colors on John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla.) This is a group that should…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Bruegel’s depiction of the Biblical story of the attempt to build a tower to the heavens is a remarkable evocation of scale and a stunning tour de force of perspective and detail. Bruegel has placed his tower, as it spirals upward, against the backdrop of a contemporary…
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James Tennison
James Tennison is a painter and portrait artist based in Fort Worth, Texas. In his gallery work, Tennison seems equally adept with watercolor and oil, carrying through his fascination with light and shadow in both mediums. I find particular appeal in those compositions in which Tennnison’s landscapes appear washed in sunlight at angles late in…
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John Frederick Kensett
Like many, if not most, classifications of groups of artists, the “Hudson River School” was not a term invented by the artists themselves, but assigned by gallery owners and art historians to classify a number of artists with similar inclinations, most of whom worked in New York State in the mid-19th century. Another assignment of…