Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Eye Candy for Today: Fuseli’s Nightmare
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Burke; The Nightmare Henri Fuseli, 1791; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Halloway Images are from Wikimedia Commons; original of the first version is in the Detroit Institute of Arts This 18th century painting by English-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli has become one…
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Drawings and Prints from the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions subtitled “Selections from the Permanent Collection” never sound dramatic, but shows of master drawings from collections like those of the Met (or the Morgan Library or the National Gallery) are actually rare treasures. Drawings and prints are considered delicate, subject to light…
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Eye Candy for Today: Aegidius Sadeler rhino
Fable of the Rhinoceros and Elephants, Aegidius Sadeler Etching, roughly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (96x112mm), 1608. In the Rijksmuseum. Today — I am informed in a tweet from the Rijksmusem — is World Rhino Day. In celebration they point to a selection of rhino images from their collection, from which I focused on…
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So PineNut
So PineNut is the name given on his Behance gallery for a Japanese artist and illustrator based in Tokyo. Beyond that I have little background information. The images on his Behance gallery are often dark, both in emotional tone and subject; and, unfortunately, in the sense that some of the photographs of the work appear…
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Michael Parkes
Michael Parkes is an American painter, printmaker and sculptor now based in Spain. Parkes takes inspiration in his affection for a variety of artistic sensibilities, from Renaissance portraits to 19th century academic and Orientalist painters, Symbolists like Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau posters, Golden Age children’s book illustrators — particularly Maxfield Parrish — and classic pin-up…