Sunday, May 29, 2016

Thursday, June 17, 2010




Alfred Stevens (1817-75)
Portrait of Mrs. Collman (National Gallery, London)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
House by the Railroad (1925, Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait in a Tuxedo (1927, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA)

Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
The Beguiling of Merlin (1874, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK)

George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
Portrait of Cardinal Manning (1881, National Portrait Gallery, London)

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia (1883, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

John Singer Sargent
Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Franz Marc
Tiger (1912, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich)
The Large Blue Horses (1911, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis)

Thomas Gainsborough
Blue Boy (1770, Huntington Art Collections, San Marino)

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
The Gulf Stream (1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Open Geometric Structure 3 (1990, Lisson Gallery London)

William Orpen
The Cafe Royale in London (1912, Musee d'Orsay)

Adraen Brouwer
The Bitter Draught (1635, Stadel Art Museum, Frankfurt)

Adriaen van Ostade
The Smoker (1655, Hermitage, St Petersburg)

Bernardo Bellotto (1720–1780)
View of the Ponte delle Navi, Verona (1745, private collection)

Jean Chardin (1699-1779)
The Meat Day Meal (c.1731, Louvre Museum)

David Teniers the Younger (1610-90)
Gambling Scene at an Inn (1649, Wallace Collection)

Gerard Terborch (1617-81)
Parental Admonition (1654-5) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588-1629)
Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women (1625, Oberlin, Ohio)
Jan Steen (1629-79)
The Christening Feast (1664, Wallace Collection)
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
Girl With the Red Hat (1665-6, National Gallery Washington DC)
Pieter de Hooch (1629-83)
Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658, National Gallery, London)
Raphael
Sistine Madonna (1513-4) Gemaldegalerie Dresden
Jusepe Ribera
Saint Paul the Hermit (1640, Prado Museum, Madrid)
Georges Rouault
Crucifixion, quatint on paper (1936, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas)
Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-78)
A View Down a Corridor (1662, Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, UK)
Titian (c.1490–1576)
Venus of Urbino (1538, Uffizi Gallery)
Francisco Zurbaran
Saint Francis of Assisi (1650-60, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona)

Monday, June 14, 2010

Fritz Wotruba, austrian sculptor

A sculptor from Austria, Fritz Wotruba was trained classically at the Vienna School of Art. He was born in 1907 and died in 1975. He became a popular and much admired post-war sculptor and a prominent teacher. His works were made of wood, stone and other materials, he enjoyed creating reliefs and free standing figures. He was influenced by Abstract and Primitivism.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

World of Art

World of Art is a Russian association of artists that want to differentiate themselves from academic art and the colloquialness of the Wanderer's art style. Formed in 1892 , the main proponents were Aleksandr Benois , Valentin Serov and Mikhail Vrubel. On the non-fine arts side, the ballet producer Diaghilev was also a leading member. They organised exhibitions together and designed ballets and ballet sets. The journal of World of Art (1899-1904) was published which contained essays and illustrations on contemporary Russian art. It also included a section on Russian architecture and art history.

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70, (1961, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Jan Davidszoon de Heem, considered one of the Old Masters.
Festoon of Fruit and Flowers (c.1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Willem Kalf
Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup (1662, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)

Rachel Ruysch
Basket of Flowers (1711, Uffizi, Florence)

Samuel van Hoogstraten
A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House (c.1655-60, National Gallery, London)

Arnold Bocklin
Island of the Dead (1886, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig)

William Holman Hunt
The Awakening Conscience (1853, Tate Gallery, London)

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor (1862, Tate Gallery, London)

Also, listed are greatest sculptors, in the world and Europe.

Hans Burgkmair, German painter

German painter and engraver, Hans Burgkmair designed woodcuts and lived just outside of Augsburg (1473-1531), around the same time as Durer was active in Nuremburg. The son of a painter, he may also have apprenticed under Schongauer in the 1490s. He spent a short time in Italy, studying the Renaissance Masters and on his return to Germany, married the sister of Hans Holbein the Elder. His later paintings show Venetian colours and monumental figures in the style of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. His most famous work is St John's Altarpiece, 1518 at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Margaret Preston female artist

Australian painter, write and printmaker, Margaret Preston was trained at the Adelaide School of Design and moved to Munich and Paris at the turn of the century. She moved from an academic style during this time and was influenced by Fauvism. In the 1920s her work was characterised by blocky simple shapes painted in oil, later developing to woodcut, lino-cut, masonite-cut and silk screen. Hugely versatile, a good example is her 1927 Implement Blue, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. By the time she painted this, she was considered one of the leading female artists back in her own country. She tended to paint landscapes and flowers, and was driven by the desire to create a distinctive national style of art. She was one of the first Australian artists to appreciate and see the potential in Aboriginal art.