Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Catherine Drabkin
I had the opportunity over the weekend to attend a gouache workshop at the Delaware College of Art and Design (where I teach a course in Animation for the Web), conducted by Catherine Drabkin. Drabkin was a founding faculty member of the college, and has recently relocated to Pittsburgh. Drabkin works in oil and drawing…
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Eye Candy for Today: Boldini's Dispatch-Bearer
The Dispatch-Bearer, Giovanni Boldini Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and download arrow for high-res image. Image is even higher resolution than the crops I’ve shown here. A fantastic painter. Sometimes I think this guy rivals Sargent and Zorn. See my previous post on Giovanni Boldini.
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Eye Candy for Today: Tobias Stranover Parrots
Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel, Tobias Stranover A not-so-still-life. On Google Art Project, also hi-res on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has an 18mb high-res image.
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Rembrandt's elephants
A Rembrandt drawing figures in a story in New Scientist today, about the search for the earliest example of an Asian Elephant known to European scientists. It was determined that the previous presumed example was, in fact, an African elephant, and records were searched for another example of a true Asian Elephant. It turns out…
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Patrick William Adam
After recently writing about Pieter de Hooch, I found it interesting to make an (admittedly unfair) comparison with the work of 19th century Scottish painter Patrick WIlliam Adam, who was also known for his sun-splashed domestic interiors.
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Pieter de Hooch (update)
In recently writing an article about Pieter de Hooch for Answers.com, it occurred to me that despite a few “eye candy” posts, I haven’t done an update with current links and resources since my original article about him in 2008. Given the similarities between the compositions and subjects of de Hooch and his contemporary Vermeer,…