Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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John Singer Sargent on Met Museum website
Today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday. A search for his work on the wonderful, recently redesigned website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings up over 600 images. Yes, the iconic and astonishingly accomplished society portraits are well represented, and if you want to focus on those, you can limit your search to show only…
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Patrick Woodroffe (update)
English artist and writer Patrick Woodroffe is self taught as an artist, having studied languages at the University of Leeds. He is noted for his illustrations for books and record album covers, basically in a fantasy vein, but with a unique approach and artistic roots in artists like Bosch and Bruegel as well as Surrealism…
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Vermeer’s The Lacemaker
Because of his astonishing skill and the unfortunately small number of his known works, the enigmatic Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer probably has one of the highest masterpiece/oeuvre ratios in the history of art. Among Vermeer’s (and the art world’s) most notable masterpieces is a small jewel of a painting called The Lacemaker. It has on…
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Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a highly regarded Ukrainian/Russian landscape painter and a member of the amazing group of Russian painters known as the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”, see my related posts). Kuindzhi was noted for his unorthodox compositions and daring experiments with lighting effects, perhaps partly stemming from his limited formal training. He grew up…
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Laura Fantini
Italian artist Laura Fantini, who divides her time between Bologna, Italy and Brooklyn, NY, creates large scale images of intimate still life subjects. Her compositions feature unassumingly simple objects like leaves, seed pods and flower blossoms, rendered in large sizes, perhaps 30×40 inches (74x98cm). Her subjects are observed with the precision of botanical art, but…
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Viktor Bykov
Viktor Bykov is a Russian painter living in the general vicinity of Moscow. He studied at the Cheliabinsk Art College and the Stroganov Art and Design Institute in Moscow. Outside of that I can find little information, at least in English. Bykov paints landscapes in oil that walk an interesting line between naturalistic and invented…