Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Danielle Richard
Danielle Richard is an artist from Quebec, Canada who works in oil, acrylic and pastel. Her subjects are primarily young women in pastoral scenes, along shorelines or in idyllic views of small boats or canoes on lakes. Though there isn’t an overt similarity, her work reminds me of the sensibilities of some of the Pre-Raphaelite…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Edwin Church oil sketch
Drawing, in the New England woods, 1855-65; Frederic Edwin Church Oil on paperboard, roughly 13 x 9 inches ( 33 x 23 cm); in the Cooper Hewitt Collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum. Interestingly, the museum has posted two images of this work, the one above, top, which I’ll call the “cool” version, and the…
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Georges de Feure
Born Georges Joseph van Sluÿters, to a Dutch father and a Belgian mother, Georges de Feure was a French painter, graphic artist and designer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though originally aligned with the Symbolist movement, much of his work was in the style of Art Nouveau — prints,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching
Portrait of Abraham Francen, Apothecary; Rembrandt Harmenz. van Rijn Etching and drypoint; roughly 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm); In the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt was an absolute master of the medium of etching and drypoint — in my opinion, the greatest in the history of art. He is most noted for…
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Eye Candy for Today: Veronese double portrait
Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia, Paolo Veronese Link is to a zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Walters Art Museum, which also has a zoomable and downloadable version, but not as high resolution. This full length…
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John Crump
John Crump is a painter based in western New Zealand whose lively style, rich with the passage of the brush, is ideally suited to his subject matter, whether it be fresh flowers, the weathered texture of ramshackle buildings or the rough character of the dramatic New Zealand mountains or shoreline. Crump’s website has both a…