Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye candy for Today: Edward Redfield’s Winter in the Valley
Winter in the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Reading Public Museum. There is a downloadable version here, part of this article about a previous traveling show that featured the painting, but it seems overly saturated, I’ve color corrected that image for the images…
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Thierry Duval
Thierry Duval is an artist from Paris, France, who paints the streets, buildings, plazas — and especially, bridges — of his home city in crisp, precisely observed watercolors. Some of his paintings brim with light and contrast, others are poetically muted and atmospheric. Almost all have a palpable sense of the textures of stone, water…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Lorrain drawing of an oak tree
Study of an Oak Tree, Claude Lorrain Roughly 13 x 9 inches (33 x 22 cm), pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite. Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version here, as part of this article on the Claudian Landscape; original is in the British Museum. 17th century French painter…
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Felepe Santamans
Felepe Santamans is a contemporary Spanish artist from Valencia who trained at the Academy Barrera of Valencia, and continued in The School of Fine Arts at the Fuster Academy. He also studied under Jose Espert, who he counts as a major influence. Santamans’ original training was in oil painting, but he moved into pastel, attracted…
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Rembrandt etching: Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds, Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn Etching and drypoint, roughly 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. There is also a version on Google Art Project. Here we see another example of Rembrandt’s uncanny mastery of the art of etching. His daring composition, in which…
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Apollinary Vasnetsov
Apollinary Vasnetsov was a Russian painter whose work is usually overshadowed by that of his more widely recognized brother, Viktor Vasnetsov, who was also his only formal teacher. Apollinary Vasnetsov painted landscapes, and was also known for his portrayals of historic Moscow. Many of his images of the latter appear to be in watercolor over…