Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Master Drawings London, 2012
Master Drawings London is a coordinated sale of master drawings by a number of galleries in London, UK, from 27 June to 5 July, 2012. This is apparently the 12th such sale, and the event has a dedicated website from which you can access an online catalog. Though it unfortunately takes the form of one…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Egidio Meléndez. On Metropolitan Museum of Art. View Fullscreen and choose zoom or Download (lower right).
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt
Sunlight and Shadow by Albert Bierstadt. Form the collection of the De Young Museum, on Google Art Project. (Use zoom control at lower right.)
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Oleg Denisenko (update)
The wonderfully idiosyncratic graphics of Oleg Denisenko have a feeling of arcane instructional diagrams from some otherworldly past. Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor. His intricately rendered images of figures, horses and fantastical mechanisms always seem connected to the past, and rich with potential meaning, but unfettered in imagination. Since I originally…
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Shelby Keefe
Shelby Keefe is another artist whose work I recently encountered at the Wayne Plein Air Festival just outside of Philadelphia. Keefe is based in Milwaukee, where she maintains a studio and exhibition space. She works both on location and from her own reference photos for studio paintings. She has a loose, blocky style, quick and…
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Nick Patten
Room interiors, though a relatively common subject, have never really been treated as a separate genre like still life, landscapes or even “cityscapes”. Though they have a long history, and some wonderful painters are noted for them, such as Vermeer, De Hooch or Tarbell, room interiors seem to be most often treated as backdrops for…