Category: Gallery and Museum Art

BoldBrush is a painting competition held by Canvoo, an arts newsletter produced by a company that sells hosted artist websites. Entries are not limited to customers, and they post the entries online in a large grouping that is worth looking through. There are quite a number of interesting entries, and there are links to additional…

Though he was never a formal member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, English painter and illustrator Arthur Hughes was part of their circle and distinctly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style and subject matter. Younger than the established Pre-Raphaelite painters, Hughes was first attracted to their movement by a magazine they published for short time called The…

Waterhouse Gallery in Santa Brbara, California has drawn from its stable of artists to present their Great American Figurative Artists Exhibition 2010. The online preview of the exhibit includes one or more images by each artist. You can click on the thumbnails for a larger view and some information about the artist. You can then…

Jan Gossaert was a Netherlandish artist active in the early 16th Century. He is often referred to by several other name variations: Jan Gossart, Jennyn van Hennegouwe, Jan Mabuse (a name he adopted from his birthplace in Maubeuge, now a part of France), or simply “Mabuse”. Though strongly influenced by his predecessors Jan van Eyck…

James Elkins is the E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the author of several books, including Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students and The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. Elkins has a…

Donald Pittenger has posted a wonderful Sorolla Museum: Pictorial Report from his recent visit to Madrid on his blog Art Contrarian. The Museo Sorolla, unlike a number of museums for individual artists that consist of their house and/or studio arranged as much as possible as it was when in use by the artist, also houses…