Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Telemaco Signorini
Telemaco Signorini was one of the premier members of the Macchiaioli, a group of Italian painters working in Tuscany in the latter half of the 19th Century. They were contemporaries of the French painters of the Barbizon School; and like them, were precursors of Impressionism in their devotion to painting outdoors, painting everyday subjects and…
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Dan P. Carr
Dan P. Carr is a Virginia based illustrator whose online illustration portfolio, as far as I can tell, consists of a Flickr set, and whose blog covers a number of delightfully rambling topics, from posts on choosing colors for palettes, to the names of colors in Old English, to vintage Cream videos, to Yeats poems,…
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is large and sprawling and full of amazing stuff, much like the museum itself. Also like the physical museum, wandering around and exploring is often rewarded with unexpected delights and treasures. One of the treasures on the Met’s website is the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.…
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Art Inconnu
Art Inconnu is a terrific blog that has been going since January of 2008, but one that I have been unaware of until recently. “Inconnu” is a word meaning a stranger or unknown person. Maintained by an anonymous “Curator”, Art Inconnu is devoted to “little-known and under-appreciated art”, sometimes obscure, sometimes just artists who seldom…
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Ted Polomis
Massachusetts still life painter Ted Polomis appears to craft the arrangements of objects for his compositions with as much care and skill as he paints them. His subjects include vintage metal and wooden toys, the time-worn surfaces of which he renders with intimate fidelity, and “classic objects”, vases, glassware, fruit and vegetables, painted with exacting…
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Alchemeyez: Visionary Art Conference
Visionary art might be loosely described as an attempt to express the inexpressible, to make manifest a visual statement of an inner mystical or visionary experience that is almost universally categorized as one that cannot be directly described in conventional terms. Still the desire of artists to create some form of expression in response to…