Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Turner’s Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino at the Getty
In July of last year the Getty Museum in Los Angeles acquired one of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s great masterpieces, Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (and a pretty price they paid for it, too.) Though not part of a special exhibition as far as I can tell, the museum is highlighting the fact that this…
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Sagaki Keita
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita creates drawings in which the textures and tones are composed of smaller drawings, down to striking levels of detail and complexity. The large images are of cityscapes, faces, famous paintings, prints or sculpture, even atomic explosions. The images within the images are of little faces, figures, animals, fish, and assorted bizarre…
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Janet Fish
Janet Fish is an American painter whose still life paintings seem to radiate color. Using a high chroma palette, in combinations that in lesser hands might fall into the garish, Fish produces harmonious compositions that vibrate with energy and light. She often chooses as her subjects objects that are translucent, transparent or reflective, in particular…
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Thomas Moran
Though he was considered part of the Hudson River School of artists, it was for his evocation of the drama of the landscape in the western United States that Thomas Moran is best known. His watercolor location sketches of the landscape in Wyoming (image above, 4th down), along with photographs by William Henry Jackson, were…
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Jacek Yerka (update 2011)
I wrote about Polish painter Jacek Yerka back in 2006 and again in 2007. A recent visit to his website showed it to be updated with new paintings and worth another visit. Yerka, who some might label Surrealist, but I think of as a magic realist, primarily creates landscapes — of a sort. They are…
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Brian Dettmer
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer cuts into books, of which he which he has first sealed the edges, proceeding one page at a time, cutting around images and other areas of interest and exposing layers of pages beneath. He does not remove or replace content, he works with the internal arrangement of…