Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Young Woman Drawing
Young Woman Drawing by Marie-Denise Villers. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under the image and use zoom or download arrow. See my previous post on Marie-Denise Villers, and here.
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Patrick Faulwetter digital plein air painting
Long before the relatively recent advent of the iPad and the digital painting apps for it that have ushered in a new wave of “digital plein air painting”, some artists, myself included, were painting digitally from life using laptop computers and pressure sensitive tablets. Most of these artists had backgrounds in other types of digital…
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David Roberts
19th Scottish century painter and printmaker David Roberts was known primarily as an orientalist, producing richly detailed paintings and a large number of finely executed lithographs of Egypt andt the near east, using as reference sketches made during several extended trips to the region. Roberts began his career as a designer and painter of stage…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank W. Benson’s Summer
“Summer“, Frank W. Benson. On Google Art Project. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The model for the very human representation of the allegorical figure was likely Benson’s wife, Ellen. I love the variety of color in her face and in the “white” gown.
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Eye Candy for Today: Man Writing a Letter, Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (2.6mb image file), from Codart. Original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. It’s astonishing how painterly it appears close up. See my post on Gabriel Metsu.
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Julian Onderdonk
The influence of French Impressionism spread out in waves from the original movement’s epicenter in Paris. Some of the waves beached in various parts of the U.S., where artists who later came to be known as American Impressionists began adopting elements of the style — first in the northeast, then somewhat later in California. There…