Category: Gallery and Museum Art

As I mentioned in my post from 2007, Louis Comfort Tiffany, in addition to designing beautiful Art Nouveau artifacts and stained glass, was an accomplished painter. The Tiffany Studios Research Center now lists resources I didn’t include in my previous post. [Via MetaFilter]

Though John Singer Sargent has become increasingly popular in recent decades, and even moved up in the begrudging valuation of art critics and museums from his position in the mid 20th Century as a “facile craftsman” to one of a more respected artist, there are still elements of his work and career that are much…

I was saddened to hear that visionary artist Robert Venosa died yesterday, August 10, 2011. Venosa was well known and respected in visionary art circles, and studied with noted figures Mati Klarwein and Ernst Fuchs. He later became friends with Salvador Dalí and was the one who introduced H.R. Giger to Dalí. Venosa was a…

Sketching St. Louis is a sketchblog about just that. Artist and illustrator Michael Anderson found his inspiration for the blog from a workshop he led in 2009 called Sketching St Louis, in which he carried forward the approach found in the Urban Sketchers blog. Anderson’s sketches of various subjects in and around St. Louis are…

Pastel is a fascinating medium, the use of which crosses the boundaries of what we think of as drawing and painting, and calls into question how we define and distinguish the two. In an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, we can see pastel displaying its qualities that bring it close…