Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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My latest articles for Answers.com
I have continued to write articles on painting for Answers.com, though this will be the last month in which I will do so. My latest articles are: What are Glazing and Scumbling in Painting? An Introduction to Plein Air Painting An Introduction to Gouache: The surprising Versatility of Opaque Watercolor Make Painting Easier by Using…
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Eye Candy for Today: Church’s icebergs
The Icebergs, Frederic Edwin Church On Wikimedia Commons, larger here. Original is in the Dallas Museum of Art. There is an article about the painting on the Wall Street Journal. You can get a sense of the scale of the painting in this photo from Steve Doherty’s blog. Just in case you haven’t seen enough…
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Duane Keiser’s Transitory Paintings
It’s not uncommon for artists to paint over, or scrape off and repaint, existing paintings. Oil paintings, in particular, lend themselves to this process, and a number of historical paintings have been shown by art forensics to have been painted over or repainted many times. Normally, the goal is a finished painting that is better…
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Sargent’s portrait of Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent Today is “Presidents Day” here in the U.S. — originally “Washington’s Birthday”, but now an all-purpose Washington and Lincoln birthday holiday, marked primarily by aggressively advertised sales of mattresses and cars. (Maybe that says something about U.S. presidents, I don’t know.) Though perhaps not one of Sargent’s most memorable…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giovanni Boltraffio portrait
Portrait of a boy as saint Sebastian, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Though the subject of this portrait by Giovanni Boltraffio may look feminine at first glance, the experts assure us by the title that it is, in fact, a boy. It might be pointed out, however, that the experts also attributed the painting to Leonardo da…
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Tissot’s Kathleen Newton
In 1875, French painter and printmaker James Jacques-Joseph Tissot met divorcee Kathleen Newton, and fell for her head-over-brushes. They had a scant seven years together before he was devastated by her death from tuberculosis in 1882. During that time, which Tissot described as the happiest in his life, he painted and drew Newton and her…