Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Ada Florek
Originally from Poland, Ada Florek is a watercolor painter based in Thoiry, France. Though she also paints other subjects, she focuses primarily on architectural and still life subjects. I enjoy her textural approach and use of crisp edges.
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow, A stream in spring
A stream in spring, Frits Thaulow, oil on panel, roughly 13 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm) Link is to Christie’s auction house, where the painting was sold at auction in 2011 (full size here). I don’t know the current location of the original, perhaps in a private collection. 19th century Norwegian painter Frits…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francesc Masriera’s Winter 1882
Winter 1882, Francesc Masriera Oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 24″ (79 x 62 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, which also has a zoomable image. Catalan painter Francesc Masriera has give us a tour de force…
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Carlos Schwabe
Though some of his literary subject matter and style characteristics have much in common with Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite artists, German-Swiss painter and printmaker Carlos Schwabe is considered to be a Symbolist. Schwabe was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his work presented a variety of themes and approaches. [Note: some…
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Stanislaw Maslowski
Stanislaw Masłowski was a Polish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also painted in oil (images above, bottom three), I particularly admire his landscape watercolors.
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Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens
Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens Link is to Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Royal Museum Antwerp. 17th century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens’ multi-faceted penchant for drama is in evidence here, in the pyramidal arrangement of the figures — topped of by camel riders peering under the rafters — the great assortment…