Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto pen and wash drawing
Imaginary View of Padua, Bernardo Bellotto; pen, black ink and gray wash drawing; roughly 13 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18th century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto had a very effective pen and wash technique for rendering architectural subjects that is similar to…
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Vladimir Orlovsky (revisited)
Vladimir Orlovsky (alternately: Vladimir Orlovskii or Volodymyr Orlovsky) was a Ukrainian landscape painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first profiled in 2014. Like most of his Ukrainian contemporaries, who lived and worked at a time when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, he is often listed as a…
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Dimitri Danish (update)
Dimitri Danish is a Ukrainian artist I first wrote about in 2013. His compositions often feature large areas of relatively low chroma and/or low value punctuated with areas of bright, intense color. Most of his subjects are cityscapes, in particular many views of Venice, in addition to locations in Ukraine and other European countries as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer watercolor & gouache
Fresh Eggs, Winslow Homer; watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 9 x 8 inches (24 x 19 cm). Original is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable images on their site. In this simple, unassuming study of a commonplace chore, Homer shows us the ability of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt pen drawing along the Amstel River
A bend in the River Amstel near Kostverloren House, Rembrandt van Rijn; pen and brown ink with brown and grey washes, heightened with white bodycolour on oatmeal paper; roughly 5 x 10″ (14 x 25 cm). Original is in the collection of the Chatsworth Estate. It would be easy to glance at a drawing like…
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Zinaida Serebriakova (revisited)
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) was a Ukrainian painter who was active in the early 20th century. Like most Ukrainian painters of the time, she is often referred to as a Russian painter because Ukraine was under the Russian Empire at that point. I first featured her on Lines and Colors in 2014. Though she…