Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Interior of the Oude Kerk, De Witte
. On Met Museum. Use Fullscreen link, then zoom or download arrow. Compare to same subject by . There is, shall we say, a bit less respect being shown to the imposing edifice in De Witte’s version (grin).
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Malcolm Liepke
Malcolm T. Liepke is a well known and widely respected contemporary painter who works primarily in figurative and informal portrait subjects. (By “informal portraits”, I mean that his subjects are models posing for the benefit of the artist as opposed to the subject of commissioned portraits.) Liepke has been tremendously influential on a number of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Phillipe Rousseau still life
Eye Candy for Today: Still Life with Ham, Phillipe Rousseau. On Met Museum. Click “Fullscreen” under image, then use zoom or download arrow.
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Roos Schuring
The landscape in the Netherlands, particularly in the lowlands, is largely sky. This seems to suit contemporary Dutch plein air painter Roos (pronounced like “Rose”) Schuring just fine. She loves to portray cloud filled skies of all kinds. Though she paints in all weather and conditions, she finds particular magic in the dramatic skies just…
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Edward Hopper on Met Museum website
Today is the birthday of the American artist Edward Hopper, and a tweet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art this morning reminds us of the wonderful trove of high resolution images on the museum’s website, including several paintings and a selection of Hopper’s often overlooked etchings.
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Eric Bowman (update)
When I wrote about Eric Bowman, an artist originally from California and now based in Oregon, back in 2008, he was transitioning from a successful illustration career into placing more emphasis on his gallery art. He is now focusing primarily on his gallery painting and his website showcases his landscapes and figurative work, as well…