Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Bridge in Middle Distance
The Bridge in Middle Distance, Charles Mallord William Turner and Charles Turner Etching, aquatint and mezzotint, roughly 7 x 11 inches (18 x 28 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions. As he frequently did,…
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Abraham Mignon
Abraham Mignon (sometimes Minjon) was a German/Dutch floral and still life painter active in the Dutch “Golden Age” (17th century). His paintings are often elaborate tableaux of flowers, fruits, seafood and dinnerware. They can be marvels of intricate detail, with the inclusion of beautifully painted insects, snails, frogs and salamanders, arranged in a way to…
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Igor Sava
Originally from Kotovsk, Russia, and now based in Rome, Igor Sava is a watercolor painter who focuses on cityscapes in his adopted country. Sava’s approach combines deft control of edges with the visual charm of freely mixed washes. His architectural subjects carry a feeling of atmosphere and light, as well as the textures of their…
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Eye Candy for Today: Silvered Brook by John Fabian Carlson
Silvered Brook, John Fabian Carlson Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the status of the original. Swedish-American painter John Fabian Carlson was noted for his scenes of winter woods. I love the way he finds so much variation of color in his tree trunks, while maintaining their coherence as an…
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Phillip R. Jackson
Phillip Jackson is a still life painter based in Mississippi, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Among other training, Jackson studied with painting professor Dennis Wojtkiewicz at Bowling Green State University. (See my previous posts on Dennis Wojtkiewicz.) Some of Jackson’s paintings take a straightforward but…