Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Larry Seiler
Gouache is a medium that doesn’t get its due. Often looked on as a “less than” subset of transparent watercolor, or a “wannabe” substitute for oil, gouache has some of the characteristics of each. Gouache is a form of watercolor, pigment suspended in gum arabic, and does give the ability to work in light over…
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70 Million: art history themed music video by Hold Your Horses
70 Million is a song by Hold Your Horses, a French-American band, that has been made into a video by L’Ogre Productions in which members of the band (and presumably a few friends) pose in hilarious mock-ups of 25 or 30 famous paintings from the history of Western Art. If you get tired of guessing,…
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Patrick Hughes
The work of UK artist Patrick Hughes lends itself to viewing by way of photographs even less than sculpture, which is unsurprising in that it is essentially a combination of painting and sculptural elements. Sculpture, to be properly appreciated, must be experienced by moving through the physical space in which it exists, which changes your…
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Kevin Frank
Encaustic painting is an early painting medium, used by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. In the later case it was used for the well-known Fayum Mummy Portraits, the sometimes strikingly beautiful portraits done on wooden panels attached to mummies in Roman Egypt. Encaustic painting is a process in which pigment is added to heated beeswax,…
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Paul Delaroche
Hippolyte (Paul) Delaroche was a French academic painter who helped set the standards for late 19th Century history painting. Though denigrated in subsequent times (and at the time by upstarts like the Impressionists), history painting was the core of mainstream academic painting, then the artistic establishment; and Delaroche, along with Eugéne Delacroix and Théodore Géricault,…
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Glenn Dean
California born, new Mexico based artist Glenn Dean finds endless variety in the rocks, hills, canyons, bluffs and mountains of the American West. Sometimes his work can be more intimate, with scenes of small arroyos, canyons and adobe structures, and he occasionally paints views of the California coast, but most often portrays the monumental geologic…