Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlo Crivelli’s Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli Tempera on panel, 60 x 19 inches (152 x 49 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This beautifully realized late Gothic work (painted in 1480) is as much decorative object as it is representational image. I love how stylized it is, from the intricately rendered strands of hair to the…
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Steven S. Walker
Originally from South Carolina, Steven S. Walker is a painter based in Georgia. Walker’s fascination with light ranges from compositions with dramatically horizontal sunlight to nocturnes with glowing pools of artificial light. He also finds fascination in the contrast of textural elements like trees in snow and rocks in water, playing with shadows and reflections…
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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…