Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Aldo Balding
Aldo Balding is a British painter now living in the south of France. He paints portraits and genre scenes, both of which often contain narrative elements — suggesting a story to which we are only privy to a moment, leaving the rest to our imagination. His lighting is also often theatrically dramatic, pulling your eye…
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Leopold Franz Kowalski
Leopold Franz Kowalski was a French artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known in particular for his paintings of women in long gowns or dress in bucolic landscapes.
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin still life with coper pot
Ustensiles de cuisine, chaudron, poêlon et oeufs, Jean baptiste Siméon Chardin, oil on wood, roughly 7×15″ (17 x 38 cm), in the collection of the Louvre. Another of Chadin’s marvelous little still life paintings, that I find elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. I love the way Chardin paints copper. The white markings along the…
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Frank Sherwin
Frank Sherwin was a British artist active in the early to mid 20th century. He is best known for his delightful travel posters, as well as his traditional watercolors. He also painted watercolors for a number of “carriage prints” (images above, bottom, with details). These were horizontal format banners displayed in railway cars for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen cityscape
A cityscape by Adrianus Eversen. The only examples I’ve found of this image are on Pinterest, so I don’t know the title, size or present location of the original. I found this copy of the image from this poster. However, I like it a lot, so I felt it worth posting. I don’t care if…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ludwig Richter’s Genoveva
Genoveva, Ludwig Richter, watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 7 in (31 x 18 cm); in the collectin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of th elarge image. This painting by 19th century German painter and printmaker Adrian Ludwig Richter depicts the legend of Genoveva, a woman…