Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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J. Paul Getty Museum on Google Art Project
Having never been to the J. Paul Getty Museum, all I know about it is limited to what I see online, but judging from that, and particularly from the selection from the museum available for viewing in zoomable high-resolution versions on the Google Art Project, their collection is quite fantastic. I’ve included a detail from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot waterfall
Waterfall at Terni, by Camille Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and zoom or download..
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Robert Lemler
Robert Lemler is an artist based in Phoenix, Arizona who works in all four of the traditional subject areas: figure, portrait, still life and landscape. In each, his approach is incisive and economical, using a plein air painter’s eye even in the studio to distill the essence of his subject into forceful compositions and strong…
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Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Animalia is an online group art exhibit and sale to benefit the Big Life Foundation, an non-profit conservation group created by photographer Nick Brandt in response to the alarming increase in animal poaching in Africa. The show includes contributions by a number of artists, both originals and limited edition prints. The works are, naturally…
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Tibor Nagy
Tibor Nagy is an artist from Slovakia who paints his plein air landscapes and townscapes with brusque, rough edged shards and chunks of color. Over a base of thinly applied darks he layers thick paint, sometimes with a loaded brush and sometimes apparently troweled on with a painting knife. These applications are mixed in with…