Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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"Selfies" #3
OK, I know that the original joking premise of these posts has worn a little thin, but the self-portraits are as strong as ever. (Images above, w/links to my posts: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Arnold Böcklin, M.C. Escher, Alice Pike Barney, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Käthe Kollwitz, Norman Rockwell, Gerrit Dou)
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Brueghel (I) landscape
Latona and the Lycian Peasants, Jan Brueghel the Elder Ostensibly, this is a scene from classical mythology, showing the goddess Latona getting pissed at the peasants who are blocking her from getting a drink and turning them into frogs. I think it’s pretty obvious, however, that what Brueghel was really interested in was the landscape…
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Robert Steven Connett
Robert Steven Connett is a California artist who takes his current inspiration form biological forms — both flora and fauna, micro and macro, land and ocean dwelling — from which he generates new variations, as though he were painting with recombinant DNA. His subjects can be deliberately disconcerting, tinged with a bit of Cronenberg-like bio-horror,…
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Carl Fredrik Aagaard
Carl Fredrik Aagard was a 19th century Danish painter, apparently best known for his views of Italy’s Amalfi Coast and Lake Como regions. I can find little else about him, and only this one repository of images on Wikimedia Commons, but that, and the tantalizing similarity of a couple of his paintings to those of…
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Rob Rey (update)
Rob Ray is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Rhode Island who I last wrote about in 2010. Since then, he has continued to fill his portfolio with more of his wonderfully painterly oils, and garner awards and mentions in both fields. His painting Ukulele Day Dream (images above, top), in particular, took Best…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peale's oranges
No, not orange peels — Peale’s oranges. Still Life with Oranges, Raphaelle Peale Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.