Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Alfred Stevens genre scene
After the Ball by Alfred Stevens. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link under image and zoom or download.
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Whistler’s etchings (round 2)
Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…
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Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl and study
I’ve had the distinct pleasure of seeing both of these works by Michelangelo in person, and I was knocked out by both. The first is the finished (and somewhat controversially restored) Libyan Sibyl form the astonishing ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. To my mind, it is the highpoint of that…
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Fred Danziger
Fred Danziger is an artist originally from Western Pennsylvania and now based in Philadelphia, where he is also a member of the faculties of The Art Institute of Philadelphia and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is also a visiting instructor at Rutgers University and Rosemont College. Over his long career, Danziger has…
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Leonardo’s younger Mona Lisa, or Mona wanna-be?
Though it has been known of for some time, a painting known as the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” was officially unveiled in Geneva yesterday by the Mona Lisa Foundation. The painting was uncovered by an English art collector, Hugh Baker, in 1913, and kept in his studio in Isleworth, London for several years, which is how…
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Museum Day, 2012
In what has become a welcome tradition, tomorrow, Saturday, September 29, 2012, is Museum Day here in the U.S. Sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine, an offshoot of the cultural cornucopia of museums known as the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, all of which are free every day, Museum Day is a chance for participating museums to open…