Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Springer townscape
De Zuiderhavendijk in Enkhuizen, Cornelis Springer In the Rijksmuseum. I just love these mid-19th century townscapes by Springer and some of his contemporaries. With their tactile renderings of brick and mortar, paving blocks and the assorted comings and goings of daily life, they are fascinating marvels of texture.
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Women in the Act of Painting
Women in the Act of Painting is a terrific blog by Philadelphia painter Nancy Bea Miller that contains exactly what it says on the can. Miller features wonderful variety of periods and styles, gives background information on the artist — and where possible, the subject — with links to additional images on the web by…
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New Van Gogh discovered
The Van Gogh Museum in Amstedam has confirmed the attribution of a painting titled Sunset at Montmajour, formerly thought to be a fake and long stored in a private attic, as a genuine Van Gogh. (Another fine addition to Not the usual Van Goghs.)
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Eye Candy for Today: Anna Alma-Tadema watercolor
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Library in Townshend House, London, Anna Alma-Tadema. On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, graphite on white paper. The original is in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Until I came across this piece on the Google Art Project, I didn’t even realize…
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Fulvio di Piazza
Fulvio di Piazza’s large scale paintings seem to depict collisions of aspects of the natural world, animal, mineral and vegatable, with the rough scars of the artificial. And the collisions aren’t pretty — except of course, that they are. Extraordinarily detailed and textural, his landforms, trees, clouds, animals, faces and fanciful forms combine with one…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Roos still life
Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables, Jan Roos On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Musei di Strada Nuova.