Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Douglas Martenson
Douglas Martenson studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he now teaches painting. He is also a lecturer in Drawing at the PennDesign School at the University of Pennsylvania. In the galleries on his website, you’ll find his recent work devoted to landscapes, architectural exteriors and room interiors. I find his room…
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The Athenaeum
The Athenaeum is essentially a virtual museum, in some ways similar to the Art Renewal Center (my post here) or the Web Gallery of Art (my post here), but with its own focus and strengths. As of this writing, The Athenaeum lists their online collection of art images at 43,339 (with 14 added in the…
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Color Vision & Art
Color Vision & Art is an online feature on WebExhibits, which describes itself as an “interactive museum of science, humanities and culture”. The feature is a series of related articles, accompanied by images and simple Flash interactives, that explore the relationship of human color perception to the uses of color in art. The feature is…
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Irving Ramsay Wiles
The son of Hudson River School painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles, Irving Ramsay Wiles began study with the great American painter William Merritt Chase at the age of 18. He studied with both Chase and noted painter James Carroll Beckworth at the Art Student’s League in New York, where he would later teach. Wiles continued to…
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Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Auckland, New Zealand, creates deceptively simple images that always have a twist or hook, usually leaving you smiling if not laughing out loud. After a 15 year design industry career, Jones found that his T-shirt designs for Threadless.com were so successful that he started his…
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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Tiziano Vecellio, commonly called Titian, was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. His reputation spread form his native Venice to Rome and the other art centers of Italy, as well as to Spain and throughout Europe. His mastery of oil painting, use of color, and strength in all phases of painting —…