Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Maude Adams
Maude Adams as Joan of Arc, Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha. Hearing The Voice. Oil on canvas. Mucha designed the frame as well. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under the image and then use zoom or download arrow.
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The Colored Pencil Society of America
Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist’s medium that doesn’t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like. In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers…
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Eye Candy for Today: Luca Forte still life
Still Life with Grapes and other Fruit, Luca Forte. On Google Art Project.
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Ralph Heimans
Originally from Austalia and now based in Paris, portrait artist Ralph Heimans has received much attention for his striking portraits of musician and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy (image above, top three) and Princess Mary of Denmark (fourth and fifth down), among others. He has recently accepted a commission to paint an official portrait of the Queen…
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Art Nouveau Windows
Art Nouveau was a movement that encompassed more than visual art, extending into packaging design, decorative arts and architecture. Art Nouveau artists, designers and architects wanted to beautify the world. In some small part, at least, they succeeded. A Russian language LiveJournal blog post by an individual identified as “marinni” titled (as close as I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro landscape
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise by Camille Pissarro. One of my favorite landscapes by an under-appreciated master of Impressionism. The texture and brushwork are just beautiful. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image and then the Download arrow for high-resolution image.