Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor. Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work. The…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mancini’s Customs
The Customs, Antonio Mancini. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. John Singer Sargent is said to have called Antonio Mancini “the world’s greatest living artist”. Jean-Léon Gérôme called him “a phenomenon”. Who am I to argue?
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Francis Livingston (update)
Francis Livingston is a gallery artist and illustrator based in Idaho who I wrote about back in 2006. Since then his style continued to develop and change, exploring new themes. In his latest work, he floats animals through the skies, parks and large scale building interiors of New York, as well as placing other objects…
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Ferdinand Richardt
Today is the celebratory inauguration of the President here in the U.S. (the actual one, as required by law, took place quietly on the 20th). In the news coverage of the event, I caught two mentions of art. One was the inaugural poem, “One Today” written and recited by Richard Blanco, in which he gave…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema scene
‘Twixt Venus and Bacchus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click “Explore Object” or Download.
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Anne Vallayer-Coster
Anne Vallayer-Coster was a noted French still life painter of the Baroque era. Though she received some training from the landscape painter Joseph Vernet, she had no official teacher and apparently learned still life on her own. She was elected to the Académie Royal, one of only four women artists to receive that distinction at…