Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Belgian painter René Magritte went through several phases in his career. The phase and style for which he is most noted is associated with Surrealism, but might be best though of as “magic realism”. Magritte spent some time in Paris, where he met Surrealist leader André Breton, and became part of the Surrealist circle, though…

Eugene de Blaas (Eugen von Blaas) was an academic painter born in Italy to Austrian parents. He studied art under his father, Karl von Blaas, also a noted painter. He spent much of his career in Venice, where he followed in his father’s footsteps in becoming a professor at the Academy of Venice. Eugene de…

Well known Australian painter Warwick Fuller has spent his career depicting the wild, unique beauty of the Australian landscape in a variety of seasons, weather conditions and qualities of light. His often vibrantly colored paintings are done largely on location, though he is working a bit more in the studio at this point in his…