Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Edgar Degas, the member of the French Impressionist group who maintained traditional academic values more than the others, spent much of his career fascinated with the ballet dancers of the Paris Opera. He drew and painted them again and again, in the process creating some of his most memorable works, including the strikingly innovative pieces…
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Robert Tracy (update)
Robert Tracy is an artist I have written about previously. Tracy had not updated his website for some time, but recently added a number of older works he has made available for purchase. You can find even more of his work on his deviantART gallery, which contains an archive of pieces going back to 1965.…
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L.D. Austin
Laurel D. Austin is a concept artist, illustrator and sculptor originally from Canada, based for several years in the UK where she was Senior Concept Artist for Splash Damage, and now living in California where she will be working with Blizzard Entertainment. Here website has galleries of illustration, concept art, sketches and 3D work. The…
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Landscapes at John Pence Gallery
Landscapes is a group show currently at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco that offers a wonderful selection of contemporary painters, as well as including a work by John Fabian Carlson. Landscapes is on view until October 8, 2011. (Images above: John F. Carlson, Travis Schlaht, John Morra, Bennett Vadnais, Steven J. Levin, Donald…
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Women Painting Women
Women Painting Women is an excellent art blog featuring just what the title implies, women artists painting women as their subjects. The selections focus on contemporary artists working in the figurative tradition. The range of style and approach is nicely varied and the calibre of the work is consistently high. As much as I like…
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Jonathan Koch (update)
When I first wrote about him in early 2010, painter Jonathan Koch had recently started posting his small paintings online, at the time listing his name as J. Bernard Koch. Shortly after that he seemed to take a hiatus of sorts to work on larger projects, but is now back to posting his small works…