Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Michal Jasiewicz
Michal Jasiewicz is a Polish architect whose avocation and passion is painting in watercolor. Like other artists trained in architecture or architectural rendering, Jasiewicz’s work is characterized by a foundation of solid draftsmanship that allows his to apply his colors freely without losing the sense of underlying geometric strength. I particularly like that characteristic of…
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“Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice” at the Getty
When I first came across reproductions of the painting St. Francis in the Desert by Venitian master Giovanni Bellini years ago, my immediate thought was: here is an artist who is constrained by his time to painting religious subjects, but really, really wants to paint landscape. Seeing that painting in person at the Frick Collection…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jongkind Laundry Boat on the Seine
Bateau-Lavoir prés du Pont-Neuf, Paris; Johan Jongkind From our vantage point in time, we have a tendency to call paintings like this one — with its loose, painterly brushwork, depiction of everyday events, and contrasting complementary colors — “impressionistic”. It’s another reminder that the characteristics we associate with French Impressionism were not invented out of…
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Odile Richer
Canadian painter Odile Richer takes a refined realist approach to her compositions of faces and figures. The often complex backgrounds against which she places her models, and the clothing in which she poses them, offer a dense variety of textures, shapes and value relationships that contrast with the faces of the models themselves. Often there…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marten van Valckenborch Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel, Marten van Valckenborch the Elder The link is to a zoomable version of the image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden State Art Museums. Flemish Renaissance painter Marten van Valckenborch painted a number of complex compositions…