Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Sigh. Another day, another treasure trove of high resolution masterpieces on the Google Art Project — this one from the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. (Images above: Maximillian Lenz, Albrecht Dürer, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Leonardo da Vinci, Dominico Fetti, Arnold Böcklin, Renbrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet)

Arto Isotalo, a self-taught painter living in Espoo, Finland, appears to have taken as his source of instruction his admiration for painters like Anders Zorn and Joaquín Sorolla. He wears his influences on his sleeve, and wears them well, with fresh, fluid brushwork, crisp value delineations and subtle control of color in his figures, portraits…

Ernest Biéler was a Swiss artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose works incorporates elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism. Biéler studied in Paris at the académie Julian, returned to Switzerland and later moved back and forth between there and Paris, staying for years at a time. His painting style varied…

Kehinde Wiley, an artist originally from Los Angeles and now based in New York, paints striking, larger than life portraits that often incorporate intricate patterns. These can be naturalistic, as in repeated patterns of realistically rendered leaves or flowers, or decorative, sometimes borrowing from the baroque or Art Nouveau, but often reflecting the cultural heritage…

Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists is an exhibition at the Florence Palazzo Strozzi that looks to be amazingly good. Fortunately, someone let me know about this before it ended. Unfortunately, it closes in a few days (15 July, 2012). Fortunately, those in reach can still see the show. Unfortunately, I’m not one…