Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Anamorphic Art
An anamorphosis is an image that is distorted in such a way that it only assumes the proportions of recognizable forms when viewed from a certain angle, or by reflection in a curved surface. The term comes from the Greek anamorphoun, to transform. Anamorphic images have a long history in art. The earliest examples in…
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Albert Edelfelt
Albert Edelfelt was born to a Swedish family living in Finland in the mid 19th Century. He found art training resources limited at the Imperial University in Helsinki, and went to the Antwerp Academy of Art to study historical painting for six months and then moved to Paris, where he found his artistic horizons broadened.…
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Shawn McKelvey
Shawn McKelvey is a California illustrator and landscape painter. Unfortunately, his three blog-based sites include little background information, other than to say he has been a freelance illustrator since 1988, with clients in the advertising, entertainment and toy industries. His commercial work includes children’s book illustrations, backgrounds and illustrations for licensed properties and board game…
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Lindsay Goodwin
It’s always interesting to look at the particular subject matter that artists find compelling. Some look to traditional subjects and perhaps put them into focus with their own point of view, others look for unique subjects, or variations and twists on traditional themes. Lindsay Goodwin is a young painter from California, who lived in Paris…
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Scenes of the Season at Brandywine River Museum
There’s a tendency to think of landscape painting as primarily a summer activity, or at least one of diminished interest in the Winter, both because of the inconvenience of painting in the cold, and the expectation of less color in the winter landscape. Quite to the contrary, many painters and illustrators found great subjects in…
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
According to a saying that became popular in the 1960’s, you are what you eat. Perhaps not as directly as in the marvelous and bizarre portrait heads created by 16th Century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo out of arrangements of fruit, vegetables, tree roots, fish, birds and other natural forms, but a sobering thought nonetheless as most…