Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Proko drawing tutorials
Proko.com is a website maintained by artist and teacher Stan Prokopenko, in which he offers a number of free drawing tutorials as well as a full length portrait drawing instructional DVD that can be purchased through the site. The free tutorials are among the best I’ve seen on the web, and to date feature instruction…
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New Frick Collection Website
The Frick Collection, as I pointed out in my post from 2010, is a relatively small museum in New York that is remarkable in its ratio of size to masterpieces. Though perhaps without as much drama and attention as the website makeovers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011 and the recent redesign of…
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Aelbert Cuyp
Though he painted other subjects, Aelbert Cuyp is best known as one of the premiere landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His scenes of ships on the waterways of his native Dordrecht are filled with shimmering light effects, illuminated sails and glowing clouds. Even his humble scenes of cows grazing are given a romantic…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun self portrait
Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. A stunning self portrait by one of my favorite underrated painters. Vigée Le Brun had an uncanny ability to make the fashionably pale skin of her female portrait subjects, herself included, almost luminescent. This is apparently a copy she made of an earlier version…
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Sherrie York
Sherrie York is a Colorado artist who works primarily in the medium of reduction linocut. This is a relief printing method in which the run of a given print is done in stages of impressions from the same block —as the block is re-cut and reduced in printing surface to be printed in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet winter scene
Ice Floes, Claude Monet. A marvel of atmosphere and suggestion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen and Zoom or download.