Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan de Beijer landscape drawing
View of Doetinchem by Jan de Beijer. Hi-res image (1.2mb) here. In the Rijksmuseum. More at the bottom of the page. Direct, simple, but careful observation. Beautiful.
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New 3D scanners reveal the artist’s hand in historic works
Who painted that? Who drew that? Who sculpted that? The question of attribution has long been problematic for art historians and conservators. A change in the attribution of a work from a highly ranked artist to a lessor one, or to the “workshop of” or “circle of” the master, or the reverse elevation of a…
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Eye Candy for Today: A Deception by Raphaelle Peale
Venus Rising From the Sea — A Deception, Raphaelle Peale. Raphaelle Peale, son of pioneering American artist Charles Wilson Peale and America’s first great still life painter, serves up a trompe l’oeil of a woman behind a cloth — a tour de force drapery study and a comment on the repressive standards applied to figure…
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Snehal Page
Snehal Page is an artist from Maharashtra, India. She acquired diplomas in Applied Art and Art Education at Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya in Pune, India, and also studied for three years at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, here in the U.S. (see my recent profile of Studio Incamminati founder and Artistic Director Nelson Shanks). Page’s website has…
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Eye Candy for Today: Georges Michel Stormy Landscape
, Georges Michel. In the National Gallery, London — use fullscreen and zoom at right of image. Wonderful clouds from a French artist who was two steps back in the lineage of Impressionism.
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Ivan Grohar
Though it's acceptance among critics and collectors was slow, the influence of the revolution of French Impressionism on other artists, and the spread of that impact to other countries in Europe and elsewhere was dramatic. In Slovenia, several artists picked up on the bright broken color, lively impasto application of paint and freedom from academic…