Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for today: Jakob Alt watercolor
View from the Artist’s Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, Jakob Alt. Alt treats us to a simultaneous landscape and interior. In the Albertina, Vienna. Use zoom and fullscreen controls in lower right of image. Also on Google Art Project.
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Mike Davis
The biographical information on Mike Davis’ website describes him as a “modern surrealist painter”. Though his work certainly shows the influence of the original European Surrealist painters, notably Dalí, as well as their more watered down descendants the “pop surrealists”, it is in the work of the 16th century Netherlandish painters Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin forest scene
Rain in an Oak Forest, Ivan Shishkin (from here).
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Daniel Danger
Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker based in New England. His ink and monochromatic approach gives his works a strong graphic sensibility, and a wonderfully spooky atmosphere, suggestive and foreboding. This is heightened by his enigmatic titles. (Roll over the images on the homepage/gallery of his website for titles.) Danger titles his website “Tiny…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Garden of the Hesperides
The Garden of the Hesperides, Frederic Leighton, large version here. Original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. See my post on Frederic Lord Leighton.
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Takuma Kaneko
Takuma Kaneko is a Japanese artist who studied art in the U.S. and Europe. As far as I can tell from the brief bio on his website, he is living and working in Japan, though most of the landscapes in his website gallery are of European scenes. Kaneko’s landscapes are bright, painterly and immediate, with…