Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Gallery of the Golden Age, Amsterdam
Art museums are like icebergs, in that only a small part of their collection is visible at any given time. It’s always a plus when museums manage to display normally unseen works in different venues. Three museums in Amsterdam, the Rijskmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum and the Hermitage Amsterdam, are launching a joint long-term exhibit, called…
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Tom Root
Tom Root is a painter and portraitist who studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut and the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida, and currently resides in Tennessee. Root’s work often has a fascinating quality of combining elements of drawing and painting in the same piece. In many of his…
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Stefaan Eyckmans
The elegantly refined still life paintings of Belgian painter Stefaan Eyckmans resonate with the traditions of the 17th century “Golden age” Dutch and Flemish still life masters, as well as evoking the sense of stillness and the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary exemplified by Chardin. Taught primarily by his father, painter and commercial…
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Alfred Sisley snow scenes
Even though most people in North America, north of the 37th parallel or so, are pretty tired of seeing show (and wishing they could send it to Sochi, where they are apparently having trouble keeping it from melting during the Winter Olympics), there is one sub-group of people who see snow differently — painters. Some…
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The Monuments Men at the Met: Treasures Saved During World War II
As well they should, a number of art museums are seeking to increase public interest by arranging tours, virtual or otherwise, of works in their collection relevant to the new feature film, The Monuments Men. These can be works either recovered, or preemptively protected from the Nazi’s attempt to accumulate — and potentially destroy —…
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was an academic painter who began his career with history paintings, and later moved to specializing in portraits and female nudes, the latter often in the role of subjects from history or mythology. His work was well received at the Paris Salon, and he became a respected teacher at the Académie Julian.…