Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Tavík František Šimon
Tavík František Šimon was a printmaker and painter from what is now the Czech Republic who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His etchings, woodcuts, aquatints and mezzotints have a wonderful sense of space and air, and yet often retain the visual charm and wiry strength of line drawings.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun self portrait
Self portrait in a Straw Hat,, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; oil on canvas, roughly 39 x 28 in. (99 x 70 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery, London. There is a high resolution image available from this page on Wikipedia. Vigée Le Brun was a renowned 18th centry portait painter. Her subjects…
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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…