Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Steve Caldwell
Steve Caldwell is a UK painter whose focus is portraits, and by focus I mean rather intense focus. Caldwell’s faces are intensely observed, and rendered with a finessed attention to tone and texture. Many have a feeling of immediacy that at times can even feel a bit confrontational, a sense of “here I am, this…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto capriccio
Capriccio with a River and Bridge, Bernard Bellotto Oil on canvas, roughly 19 x 29 inches (48 x 73 cm); in the collection of the Museo National Thyssen-Bornemisza. Click on the links to zoom or download the image on the museum’s site. Bernardo Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew, as well as his premiere student. This image…
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Denise Ramsay
Denise Ramsay is a botanical artist originally from New Zealand, who now divides her time between Hong Kong and a cottage in the southwest region of France. Ramsay paints keenly observed and intricately realized watercolors of flowers and other plants, sometimes at a fairly large scale, in watercolor. Her paintings are bold and dynamic, apparently…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches
Gate at the Paris Ramparts, Entrance to the Moulin de la Galette, Vincent van Gogh Pencil, pen & ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, roughly 9 x 12″ (24 x 32 cm) and 12 x 9″ (31 x 24 cm), respectively. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on “Not the usual Van Goghs“, in…
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Arnold Marc Gorter
Arnold Marc Gorter was a Dutch landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. There aren’t a large number of his works available online, but some of them are large to appreciate his approach, which seems to be influenced by both Impressionist color and Barbizon school textures.
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun In the collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; full image here. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project that goes a bit more high resolution. Another beautiful portrait by the brilliant 18th century French painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun.…