Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
Landscapes Through Time is a 13-part PBS series, produced several years ago, in which landscape painter David Dunlop goes on location to places were several notable landscape painters, mostly from the late 19th century, painted. Each episode is devoted primarily to an individual painter. In the half-hour episodes he talks about the painters, their methods,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest
Snowy Forest, Andreas Achenbach Watercolor, 16×24″ (42x62cm). A little reminder for those of us here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that snow can be beautiful. On Google Art Project. High res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.
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Self-portraits #10
More “selfies” from the pre-iPhone annals of art history. (Images above: Edgar Degas, Hans Holbein the Yonger, Alexandre-François Desportes, Giovanni Boldini, J.M.W. Turner, Margaret Foster Richardson, Pablo Picasso, Franz Eybl)
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François Marius Granet
Sometimes artists, like musicians, are called on to replay their “greatest hits” (or “hit”). François Marius Granet was a French painter, originally from the Provençal town of Aix. He studied there in a free art school run by the landscape painter M. Constantin. Granet went to Paris, where he had the opportunity to study with…
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt’s Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn OK, so the defecating dog was a source of some amusement back in art school, but once you get past that, this etching is just mind-bogglingly superb — a tour-de-force of drawing and the mediums of etching and drypoint. This was made after one of Rembrandt’s own paintings (though…
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Thomas Paquette: On Nature’s Terms
Thomas Paquette is a painter from western Pennsylvania, whose work I have showcased before here on Lines and Colors, and who remains a personal favorite among contemporary landscape painters. Paquette’s landscapes not only have a beautiful sense of color and light, but they are painted with a particularly appealing quality of edges. There is something…