Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Self-portraits #5
How wonderful and strange these all are! (Images above: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Lucian Freud, Judith Leyster, Thomas Eakins, Howard Chandler Christy, Ila Schütz, Jan Lievens, Paul Cézanne)
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Tezh Modarressi
The usual litany of painting genres goes: “portraits, figurative, landscape and still life”, and brushes over the unfairly neglected subject of room interiors. Tezh Modarressi, originally from Baltimore and now based in Philadelphia, is an artist who takes room interiors as her primary subject. She seeks out old buildings and portrays their weathered, textural surfaces…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cole's Youth
The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole On Wikimedia Commons, with link to a higher-resolution image and images of the other three paintings in Cole’s The Voyage of Life series. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C., which has a description of the work as well as the others in the series.
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"Selfies" Self-portraits #4
OK, OK — I’ll stop calling them “selfies” (grin), but I’m having way too much fun with these self-portrait posts to stop now. More to come. (Images above, w/links to my posts: Antonio Mancini, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , Ferdinand Hodler, Rene Magritte, Frédéric Bazille, Raphael, Ivan Kramskoy, Charles Wilson Peale)
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Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in new York has a wonderful practice of periodically assembling small, non-blockbuster exhibitions of works on paper from their enormously deep collections. These often go unnoticed in the press, but can surprise and delight visitors to the museum who come across them on their way to something else in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: dinner with Pieter Claesz
Still Life with a Turkey Pie, Pieter Claesz In the Rijksmuseum. Did the centerpiece just look at me?