Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Jim Wodark
Though I was familiar with the online portfolio of California based plein air painter Jim Wodark (pronounced “wood-ark”), and already had him on my list for a post, I had the opportunity recently to meet the artist and attend a demo he gave at the recent Wayne Plein Air Festival here in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Wodark…
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Wayne Plein Air Festival 2013
The Wayne Plein Air Festival, held here in Southeastern Pennsylvania each May, is now in its seventh year and has grown into an important regional plein air event. The participating artists paint for three days at locations within 15 miles of the town, one day in nearby Philadelphia and one day in the town of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alexander’s Isabella
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, John White Alexander I love the contrast of this spare, Art Nouveau-tinged interpretation of the tragic and somewhat gruesome tale of Isabella, as compared to William Holman Hunt’s lavish and equally stunning interpretation of the same story. The John White Alexander painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Morisot’s mother and sister
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother and Sister, Berthe Morisot An intimate family portrait by an underappreciated member of the Impressionist circle.
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Cayce Zavaglia
Cayce Zavaglia creates her portraits in a novel variation on the time honored traditions of tapestry, using crewel embroidery wool in a method in which the direction of the threads are not blended into a uniform pattern, but given direction within the creation of the form — like brushstrokes, producing a much more “painterly” (“threaderly”?)…
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Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum
John Singer Sargent, long dismissed by the art establishment as a facile painter of society portraits, has finally in recent years been getting something of his due as a painter. Beyond the technical mastery and delicious painterly flourish of his formal work in oil, Sargent was one of the great masters of the medium of…