Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Tugboat Printshop: Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are collaborative artists working in woodblock prints, and are also husband and wife. Tugboat Printshop is their online store and gallery. The site not only showcases their work but is in large part devoted to process, and details various aspects of the creation and production of their prints. Their work…
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Armand Cabrera
Originally from California and now living and working in Virginia, painter Armand Cabrera brings several aspects of his background into play when creating his vibrant, painterly landscapes, still lifes and figurative works. He draws on his 20 years of experience as a visual development artist for the entertainment industry, in which his clients include LucasFilm…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert Robert’s Hermit
A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple, Hubert Robert. On Google Art Project, click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Getty Museum. On the museum’s site they suggest Robert may have taken inspiration for the monumental scale of the temple from the prints of his contemporary…
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Tom Betts
Utah based painter Tom Betts sees the world in a teacup, or at least finds fascination with light playing across the forms of teacups in various situations — in water, on tables, whole and broken. He also finds meaning and emotional resonance in the compositions he creates with teacups, seeing them as metaphors for aspects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Campin’s St. John the Baptist and Heinrich von Werl
Saint John the Baptist and the Franciscan Heinrich von Werl, Robert Campin. Commissioned by a contemporary 15th century Franciscan to portray himself praying in the company of Saint John, this is, like Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, another marvel of detail and glazing. It was in paintings like this that…
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Durer’s Melencolia I
Meloncolia I, Albrecht Dürer. One of the most iconic engravings by one of art’s great printmakers, Melelcolia (an archaic spelling of melancholia) is filled with symbols of alchemy and carpentry (architecture), along with various measuring tools, an hourglass, a polyhedron and a “magic square” — the rows of which add up to 34 in all…