Category: Gallery and Museum Art

It has long been assumed that Vincent van Gogh never painted a portrait of his brother Theo, despite the number of self-portraits he completed during the two years he lived with Theo in Paris. Now researchers at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, think they have determined that the presumed self-portrait at right, above, is…

The images are frustratingly small and inconveniently presented, but the variety of approach among the exhibitors in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London is wonderful. You can always take the artist’s names to Google to search for more of their work. The exhibition is on view to 18 September, 2011…

In my previous post about Ken Auster, a well known California painter of plein air landscapes, cityscapes, surfing scenes and restaurant interiors, I pointed out my disappointment in the frustratingly small images on his website. In particular, I found it unfortunate because the small images don’t convey the wonderful painterly brushwork and textural qualities that…

Last March I wrote about a show called From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection that was on view at the time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The NGA’s page for the exhibit offered a slideshow of 24 images and a PDF of the exhibition brochure, though neither were as…

Chilean painter Claudio Bravo only studied art formally in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes at an early age. Bravo had his first exhibition at the age of 17. In the 1960’s he moved to Madrid where he developed a reputation as an in demand society portrait painter. In the 1970’s he moved to Tangier,…

Spanish painter Joaquin Mir (also called Joaquin Mir Trinxet or Joaquim Mir i Trinxet) was born in Barcelona and studied there at Escuela Oficial de Bellas Artes (the School of Fine Arts), He was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was known primarily for his landscapes. He worked in a lush,…