Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gruelle landscape
The Canal Morning Effect, Richard Bruckner Gruelle On Google Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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A few more from John Singer Sargent
Not that I really need a reason other than my usual slack-jawed admiration, but today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday, so here are a few of the hundreds of beautiful presents he left for us.