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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter

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    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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel

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    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…

  • James Tennison

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    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…

  • John Frederick Kensett

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    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…

  • My latest articles for Answers.com

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    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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Church’s icebergs

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    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…