Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde
My love of British Pre-Raphaelite painting goes back to childhood. I grew up just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, and from an early age my artistic diet was rich in the the glorious storytelling of Howard Pyle and his students, and the dazzling works of the Pre-Raphaelites, both of which are represented by strong collections at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo’s Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception, Giambattista Tiepolo. In the Prado, Madrid. Click on the diagonal enlarge arrow under the image, then again, to open high resolution image (3.6mb) in a new window.
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Drawing the Line at Arcadia Fine Arts
Drawing seldom gets its due — in museums, galleries, books or even the internet — always relegated to a lesser status then other media. To be fair, this is partially because drawings and other works on paper are more subject to light damage and generally cannot be on permanent display; but largely it’s just that…
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Jacqueline Lou Skaggs
Painting on copper has a fairly long history in art, achieving a particular popularity among northern European artists in the 16th Century, and still has its contemporary proponents. Likewise the painting of miniatures also has a long history in art and is practiced by a number of contemporary artists. In the early 20th century, the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent watercolor
, John Singer Sargent. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then download arrow. This is one of Sargent’s “travel sketches”, painted for his own pleasure. This man could paint.
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Jelaine Faunce
Jelaine Faunce is a contemporary painter based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She paints her still life subjects in oil. Her compositions have a very strong sense of design, with as much attention given to the spaces around objects as the objects themselves. Her website portfolio is divided into three sections, Vintage Neon, Small Works and…