Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: John O’Connor cityscape
Ludgate, Evening; John O’Connor Link is to image on Wikimedia Commons. The original was auctioned through Sotheby’s in 2012, so I assume it’s in a private collection. Not ony is this a deftly handled complex composition with a wonderful sense of scale and distance, it’s also a fascinating use of low-chroma complementary colors.
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Eye Candy for Today: Olga Wisinger-Florian fall landscape
Falling Leaves, Olga Wisinger-Florian Link is to the image on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the status of the original; it was sold at auction in 2014, so it may be in a private collection. Turn of the century Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian give us a wonderful example of how to handle a complex, colorful…
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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…