Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration on Tor.com
Following up on her terrific previous posts of Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration and Picturing Spring, an Equinox Celebration, Irene Gallo has once again invited an array of artists and art directors to give her their suggestions for favorite seasonal images, this time for Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration. As in those previous posts, the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait
Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.
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Jakub Schikaneder
The muted, atmospheric landscapes, room interiors and nocturnes of Czech painter Jakub Schikaneder often seem steeped in melancholy, if not overt sadness, sometimes with lone figures almost blended into the soft darkness. Schikaneder appears to have taken some of the painterly brushwork and broken color of the French Impressionists and turned them in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rijckaert
Landscape with Satyrs, attributed to Marten Rijckaert. In the National Gallery, London. Use controls at right of image to launch full screen viewer and zoom in.
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Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla
La Siesta en el Jardin by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in a nice large image file on Wikimedia Commons. Title page here.
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Neil Hollingsworth (update 2012)
Looking at them in reproductions, some might be tempted to think of contemporary realist James Neil Hollingsworth’s refined still life paintings as photo-realistic, but I’ve never seen them that way. To my eye Hollingsworth’s paintings are about the exploration of surfaces — metallic, wooden, smooth, textured, reflective, refractive, polished and tarnished. His surfaces are always…