Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Frederic Edwin Church on Google Art Project
The dramatic and often spectacularly large paintings of 19th century American painter Frederic Edwin Church are rich with fascinating details and beautiful handling of his subjects. In addition to painting his sweeping vistas in enough detail that you could easily take multiple sections of them as individual compositions, Church often placed small figures within a…
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Mato Celestin Medović
Croatian artist Mato Celestin Medović was best known as a history painter, creating large, elaborately detailed tableaux of coronations and other events from recent or ancient history. In these he excelled in capturing the kind of subtly rich color and sensitive attention to surfaces and materials for which his contemporary Victorian English painters and French…
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Eye Candy for Today: Brullov’s Pompeii
The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Brullov. From the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, on Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls.
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Ilene Meyer 1939-2009
Ilene Meyer was a painter who created stunning magic realist, fantastic and visionary works, often involving continued themes of checkered planes, geometric objects, animals, sea creatures, flowers, fruit and other aspects of the natural world, real and imagined, swirled into cascades of looping forms as if pulled by strands of liquified gravity. Unfortunately news is…
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Todd M. Casey
New York based artist Todd M. Casey is originally from Massachusetts, and credits his background with developing his attraction to still life subjects that have a feeling of history and suggest a narrative. Casey worked for a time as a graphic designer in New York. While beginning studies in animation at the Academy of Art…
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Nick Patten (update)
When I wrote about the beautiful and quietly enigmatic room interiors of Nick Patten back in May of this year, I pointed out that I found it difficult to navigate his online portfolio. I’m happy to day that Patten has redesigned his website, making it much easier to view the images of his work. For…