Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Giorgiones Adoration of the Shepherds
Adoration of the Shepherds, Giorgione, oil on panel, 36 x 43 inches (91 x 110 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. The briliant Venetian painter Giorgione, who was likely Titian’s teacher, studied for a time with Giovanni Bellini. You can see the influence, and fascination with landscape, evident in Bellini’s…
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Winter Solstice Eye Candy: Monsted’s Winter
Winter, Peder Mork Monnsted, oil on canvas, 32 x 48 inches (84 x 122 cm). Link is to 2023 past auction on Sotheby’s; large image here from this article on the At Sunnyside blog. Peder Mork Monsted, the wonderful Danish landscape painter, was noted for his snow scenes and their remarkable fidelity to the light…
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Eye Candy for Today: Wyeth’s Evening at Kuerners
Evening at Kuerners, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor, 25 x 40 in. ( 65 x 101 cm). Link is to a page on Artistic Junkie, large image here. This is one of my favorites of Andrew Wyeth’s drybrush watercolors, which is saying something, given how much I love those paintings. This is Kuerner Farm, where Wyeth,…
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Francesc Masriera
Francesc Masriera i Manovens was a 19th century Spanish painter, noted for his full length portrayals of women in ornate dress or costume, leading him to often being described as an Orientalist. He was particularly fascinated by the texture and sheen of the fabrics and rendering of the acoutremonts in which his models are arrayed.
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Eye Candy for today: Van Gogh rock drawing
The Rock of Montmajour with Pine Trees, Vincent van Gogh, pencil, pen, reed pen and brush and ink, on paper, 19 x 24 in. (49 x 61 cm), in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. As much as I enjoy the color in Vincent Van Gogh’s later works, for which he is justly…
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Dongfeng Li
Dongfeng Li is a Chinese born artist now living and working in the U.S. Though he also works in oil, his primary medium is watercolor. With applications both sensitive and brusque, he captures the spirit of places and people, his palette varying with the subject. There is a video on YouTube by the California Watercolor…