Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Greenhill’s Lady as a Shepherdess
A Lady as a Shepherdess, John Greenhill On Google Art Project, also downloadable high-res from Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Though she is well presented, I don’t think Greenhhill has gone out of his way to flatter the sitter — or the sheep.
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Sun Jiapei’s sun-dappled canals and bridges
Originally from China, and now living and working in Japan, Sun Jiapei is a painter with a particular fascination for canals and urban streams. He paints these with a keen sense of the play of light across water as it flows through the angularly defined defined spaces of rock channels, walls, quays and bridges. The…
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Eye Candy for Today: Simon Vouet drawing
Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, Simon Vouet Black and white chalk on paper, 11×8″ (28x20cm). Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click Download for larger images. You have to create a (free) account to download the high-resolution images.
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The miniature marvels of Simon Bening
Prior to the mid-16th century, watercolor was primarily used for the painting of miniatures in illuminated books. These hand-painted and inscribed volumes were usually devotional, but sometimes were essentially calendars. Perhaps the greatest and last Flemish master of this form was Simon Bening. He was a member of a family of artists. His father, Alexander…
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Eye Candy for Today: Manet still life
Still Life with Melon and Peaches, Edouard Manet A summer table for you on Manet’s birthday. Manet is noted as a figurative painter, and his still life subjects, I think, often get less attention than they deserve. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. There is a good sized image on Wikipedia.
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David Dunlop
David Dunlop is a painter and lecturer based in Connecticut. He is the author and host of the PBS series Landscapes Through Time, which wrote about earlier today here on Lines and Colors. I came across his work from that program when I first saw it a few years ago. In the course of the…