Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Victor Nizovtsev
Victor Nizovtsev was born in Russia and studied at the Ilia Repin Collge for Art in Chisinau, Moldavia and the Vera Muhina University for Industrial Arts in St. Petersburg. He now lives in the U.S. in Maryland. His paintings have some of the narrative character of Golden Age children’s book illustration, and draw on influences…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany’s Cairo
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany is better known for his stained glass and decorative works, but was a skilled painter in the orientalist vein. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download” under the image and choose a size.…
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Aaron Schuerr
Aaron Schuerr portrays the mountains, streams and woodlands of his adopted home of Montana in both oil and pastel. His plein air works show a subtle appreciation for the fleeting effects of light, and his painterly approach demonstrates a keen awareness of the importance of edges. Though mountains are his most frequent subject, I particularly…
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Delbert Gish
Delbert Gish is an American painter who received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho, but went on from there to study with late 20th century and contemporary masters Sergei Bongart, David Leffel, Harvey Dinnerstein, Burton Silverman and Nelson Shanks. The legacy of his study with those painters is reflected in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing
Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…
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Eye Candy for Today: early Fantin-Latour still life
Still Life with Roses and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Zoom or download arrow. Though I also admire Fantin-Latour’s mature work, I just love the painterly quality of this early still life — a wonderful study in brushwork and edges. To my thinking, there is a direct…