Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Painting en Plein Air: Resolving the Landscape, Thomas Kegler
Thomas Kegler is a Western New York State painter and senior member of the Hudson River Fellowship who was the subject of a Lines and Colors post in October of this year. In addition to the instructional materials and short videos on his website, Kegler demonstrates his painting techniques in an “instructional documentary” titled Painting…
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The Story of British Art on The Guardian
While not exactly fulfilling its title, The Story of British Art is nonetheless an interesting series of articles, accompanied by an image slideshow, on artists from (or related to) British history by Guardian art writer Jonathan Jones. While I don’t always see eye to eye with Jones, I always find his articles worth reading, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Bosboom interior
The Interior of the Bakenesserkerk, Haarlem, Johannes Bosboom. In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.
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Women and cats Flickr set
In the apparent dichotomy of “dog people” and “cat people”, I’m in the latter camp. Dogs can be nice enough, but they always seem a bit too eager to be what humans want them to be. Cats are to me more fascinating. Having a cat as a pet seems more like sharing your house with…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bellini Madonna
Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini. Another of Bellini’s strikingly individualistic faces for religious subjects, and the superb painting ability that caused Durer to write of Bellini after a visit to Venice: “He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all.” See my post on Giovanni Bellini. In the Metropolitan Museum.…
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Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter, set designer and philosopher. He was also trained as a lawyer and was an amateur archeologist. Roerich’s work shows the influence of Russian and Nordic folk tales, iconography, his interest in eastern religion and his travels in India, Tibet and Mongolia. Roerich was also known for his efforts to…