torsdag 30 december 2010
torsdag 23 december 2010
Maria Pavlova
Det är väl fångat, det bleka morgonljuset, förnimmelsen av ett kallt golv då man lämnar sängen. Böckerna och dagens alla göromål väntar. Katten har redan meddelat att det är frukostdags, den väntar och följer varje rörelse.
onsdag 22 december 2010
Alexander V. Moravov
Den ryska titeln kan översättas till Julgran. Konstnären skildrar ofta bondelivet under sovjettiden. Här är det närmast familjen som samlats i gemensamma sysslor. Fotogenlampans ljus ger målningen ett varmt intryck.
tisdag 21 december 2010
Konstantin Korovin
The portrait is done in oil on canvas. The delicate stroke of the brush with the intricate detail of women’s face, accessories, dress and couch, make this image look realistic. The central subject of the painting is the actress Tatiana Liubatovich. The painter emphasizes her statue placing her on the window where the light is hitting her from the back making the women look delicate and fragile. Her creamy color dress is penetrated by the sun what demonstrates painters great ability to express the feel of the material. The black bows on her dress demonstrate class and sophistication. What stands out in this painting is the book she holds in her hands. The way she holds it expresses her calmness and enjoyment. The way women carry her self, the way she is portrayed; demonstrates her rank in the society. The background which is the scene behind the window suggest the worm season. Ref. Augustina Zygaite
måndag 20 december 2010
John Sloan
The location is the back room of Wallace's at Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street. The bar was called "The Golden Swan" but was nickm-named "Hell Hole." and was a gathering place for artists, writers, and Bohemians of Greenwich Village. The figure in the upper right is Eugene O'Neill. Ref. Allinson Gallery
lördag 18 december 2010
Gwen John
Hennes rykte som ensling har blivit ifrågasatt på senare tid, men det är lätt att tro så då man ser The Convalescent. Målningen ovan är en av tio mycket likartade målningar som visar samma flicka sittande i ett rum fyllt av ett mjukt, blekt ljus. Rummets atmosfär är rofyllt, nästan melankoliskt, försjunket i sig själv, flickans ansikte är allvarligt, blicken nedslagen, hon är helt upptagen av det brev hon håller i sina händer.
fredag 17 december 2010
Konrad Witz
Witz's earliest paintings are done on oak panels-also used by Netherlandish painters-but his later ones are on pine or fir. His paintings were attributed variously to such painters as "Giotto", "Guido da Siena", "Franco-Burgundian School", and "Follower of Geertgen tot Sint Jans", until 1896. In that year the Curator of the Basel Museum, Daniel Burckhardt grouped paintings by the same hand, some of which were in museums and others still in private collections. He recognized the Geneva Altarpiece as a work by the same person, and noted its prominent inscription "Magister Conradus de Basilea".
torsdag 16 december 2010
Pablo Picasso
En pastellmålning av Picassos hustru Olga Koklova (1891-1954). Teckningen är förstärkt med en svart linje. Det är ett vackert porträtt, figuren har volym, färgerna är mättade. Enkelhet och harmoni präglar bilden.
lördag 11 december 2010
Andrea del Sorto
Andrea del Sorto (1486-1530) Madonna delle Arpie (Madonna of the Harpies) (1517)
En märklig målning som man funderat över. "The most recent interpretation is that it is a depiction, based on the text of the Book of Revelations, of the Virgin triumphant over evil, symbolized by the monstrous figures, the "harpies," which are in fact the "locusts" mentioned in Revelations; and besides that, bears witness to the cult of the Virgin by the clients, the conventual Franciscans."
Se länk ovan.
torsdag 9 december 2010
Wilhelm von Gegerfeldt
Han gjorde studieresor till Frankrikes nordkust, till hemlandet och till Italien, målade skymning över Venedigs kajer, månsken över lagunerna, kritklippor vid Engelska kanalen i gråstämning, svenska sommarnätter, allt med elegant pensel, smekande färg och livligt föredrag.
onsdag 8 december 2010
Theodore Robinson
He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of American Impressionism. In 1884 Robinson returned to France where he would live for the next eight years, visiting America only occasionally.
söndag 5 december 2010
Gabriel von Max
He illustrated works of German literature by Wieland, Lenau and Schiller, as well as producing illustrations for Goethe’s Faust (1867–8; Prague, N.G., Kinsky Palace). As well as literary and even musical sources, religious themes frequently occur in his work, including his first great success, the Crucifixion of St Julie (1867; ex-Sotheby’s, London, 1976). In numerous female figures and portraits Max explored the tension between the inner state and the charm of the physical appearance or surroundings of his subjects.
fredag 3 december 2010
Anders Zorn
Zornmuseet äger ungefär en tredjedel av konstnärens totala produktion, den största samlingen i världen av Zorns konst. I utställningen visas också delar av makarna Zorns konstsamling silver, dalmålningar och verk av konstnärsvännerna.
fredag 26 november 2010
söndag 21 november 2010
Carl Brandt
Carl Brandt var i all sin produktion genomgående en romantisk landskapsmålare. Det var både sommar - och vintermotiv med röda stugor bland höga slanka tallar vid en insjö, det var kustmotiv med klippor och skär, och det var fjällmotiv. Ofta visade han solnedgångar med orangefärgad himmel.
onsdag 17 november 2010
Winslow Homer
Homer målade bland annat landskap, och är mest känd för vyer av havet. Han är ansedd som en av de förnämsta av 1800-talets amerikanska målare och en av de mest kända inom amerikansk kultur.
tisdag 16 november 2010
Amanda Sidvall
Amanda Sidvall kom från Stockholm och gick på Konstakademin 1864 - 1871 som hade öppnat sin fruntimmersavdelning 1864. 1874 reste hon till Paris och studerade på Académie Julian.
måndag 15 november 2010
John Sloan
John Sloan painted this (likely immigrant) woman in 1912 to highlight middle-class American values. It was a theme he returned to frequently.
söndag 14 november 2010
Otto Scholderer
Scholderer tillhörde under sin livstid de viktigaste konstnärerna i Europa. Otto Scholderer målade stilleben och porträtt, ofta i dämpade toner. Han är en av de viktigaste förmedlarna mellan romantiken och impressionismens början.
lördag 13 november 2010
Ellen Thesleff
Ellen Thesleff var symbolist redan innan hon anlände till Paris: det enkla och lyriska var hennes naturliga uttryck. I Paris accentuerades konstnärens mattgrå kolorism, ett stilla ljusdunkel trädde fram. Symbolistiska fantasimotiv i Magnus Enckells stil var inte för Ellen Thesleff. Hennes motivkrets låg i enklare saker och i mindre skala, utan de 'främmande grubblerier' som hon påträffade i sina konstnärsvänners bilder.
Ellen Thesleffs dröm om stor, lyrisk och enkel konst förde henne till Italien till Masaccios och Fra Angelicos rena konst. Det var även Italien som blev den starkaste inspirationskällan för Thesleffs konst: Florens, Rom och Neapel, Toskanas blåvioletta bergslandskap
torsdag 11 november 2010
Jos Albert
Jos Albert är inte riktigt uppskattad efter sin förmåga och befinner sig litet utanför den stora strömfåran av berömda konstnärer. Men han är väl värd att lära känna, hans verk håller hög kvalitet.
fredag 5 november 2010
Liana Bennett
Life's fragile threads, small occurrences, and moments change our lives from one reality to another. The viewer connects with an instant captured in an expression, a place or an object. Representational or abstract, I strive to capture these things in my work. Ref. http://www.lianabennett.com
torsdag 4 november 2010
Gustaf Fjaestad
Han kallas för Rimfrostens mästare och grundade den så kallade Rackstadgruppen vid sjön Racken vid Arvika i Värmland, till vilken konstnärer som Björn Ahlgrensson, Bror Lindh och Fritz Lindström hörde. Som konstnär betraktas han av många som tillhörande de främsta svenska målarna. Hans vinterlandskap är kända och han finns representerad på många svenska museer, exempelvis Nationalmuseum och Thielska galleriet i Stockholm, och Rackstadmuseet i Arvika. Ref. Wikipedia
måndag 1 november 2010
William Logsdail
During his earlier years he painted mainly architectural subjects but from 1903 painted portraits exclusively. Lived at Noke, near Oxford, for many years and died there on 3rd September 1944.
söndag 31 oktober 2010
Eugene Delacroix
[Då korsfararna landade i staden 1204] ...kunde de inte tro att en så rik stad kunde finnas i hela världen. Då de såg de höga murarna och rika tornen som omslöt den och de praktfulla palats och höga kyrkor som var så många att ingen kunde tro det om han inte såg det med egna ögon, och stadens längd och bredd var furstligare än alla andra...
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torsdag 21 oktober 2010
Albert Edelfelt
Edelfelt hade framgångar på Salongen i Paris, och erhöll 1880 medalj för målningen Ett barns likfärd (1879). 1881 invaldes Edelfelt i den Ryska konstakademin. Edelfelt skördade även lagrar med sina porträtt, till exempel Läsande parisiska (1880) och porträttet av operasångerskan Aino Ackté (1901). För porträttet av Louis Pasteur (1885) belönades Edelfelt med franska hederslegionens kors. Under förtryckstiden fick Edelfelts patriotiska verk, bland andra Björneborgarnas marsch (1892) och illustrationerna av Fänrik Ståls sägner stor spridning i Finland. Ref. Wikipedia
onsdag 20 oktober 2010
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin var först impressionist, men utvecklade runt 1888 i Bretagne en dekorativ stil med långtgående förenkling, hela färgplan, starka konturer, den så kallade primitivismen. 1888 delade han en gul stuga med Vincent van Gogh Arles i södra Frankrike. Gauguin vistades 1891–1893 och 1895–1903 på Tahiti och Marquesasöarna för att måla primitiva polynesiska motiv. Han var en av den moderna konstens främsta föregångare.
måndag 18 oktober 2010
Frits Thaulow
En av Frits Thaulows mästerliga skildringar av vatten i långsam rörelse.
fredag 15 oktober 2010
Vladimir Mikhailov
From 2003 is a participant of annual expositions of students’ works at I.E. Repin's Institute, Saint-Petersburg.
torsdag 14 oktober 2010
George Frederick Watts
Det politiskt korrekta tycks vara tillväxt. Visst är det trevligt, vårt glesbefolkade land uppfylls av arbetande människor. Vi blir alla litet rikare och kan tillverka sådant som vi alla önskar oss. Ännu finns det odlingsbar mark och i länder med brist på rent vatten kan det renas och avsaltas. Baksidan på detta glänsande mynt är en allt torftigare djurvärld, de befinner sig allt oftare på de platser där vi inte önskar att de är. Likadant går det med artrikedomen inom växtlivet, urskogarna blir onekligen mindre. Så vad är det vi hoppas på i det litet längre perspektivet?
onsdag 13 oktober 2010
Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, prized for his meticulous technique and illusionistic effects. He entered Rembrandt van Rijn's Leiden studio at the age of fifteen, when the great master himself was still a teenager. Dou's fame, however, resulted from his own artistic achievements. He was considered the founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders (fine painters), and his works were sought by collectors throughout Europe, including Queen Christina in Stockholm and Cosimo III de' Medici in Florence, who paid extremely high prices for his works.
måndag 11 oktober 2010
Guan Weixing
In 1960, when Guan Weixing was still a first grade student in Luxun Fine Arts Academy, Eugen Popa, a Romanian Professor, broke a rule in order to accept Guan into his oil painting training class. And in 1962, he was graduated a master. So far, many of his works have been published, collected, and exhibited not only in many national exhibitions but also in international ones held in America, Japan, France and so on.
söndag 10 oktober 2010
Jonas Lie
Jonas Lie often depicted the sea, channels, and ships with dramatic perspective and powerful use of color. He became known for colorful impressionistic scenes of harbors & coves, painted during the many summers he spent on the coasts of New England & Canada. Throughout his prolific career he painted brilliantly colored images of the rocky coves and harbors that identify the region’s dramatic shoreline. Lie painted a landscape mural in honor of his wife, Sonia, in the sanctuary of the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, New Jersey in 1929. It is inscribed, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.”
lördag 9 oktober 2010
fredag 8 oktober 2010
Pino Daeni
Pino Daeni's art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family. His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.Pino is noted for his exceptional ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects - a talent which has brought his artwork a worldwide following and private commissions to do portraits.
torsdag 7 oktober 2010
Maud Sumner
Maud Sumner was born in Johannesburg in 1902 and died in 1957 at the young age of 55. She was educated at Rodean School in Johannesburg. Sumner moved to London in 1939 but returned to South Africa in 1941 where she worked in Johannesburg until 1946. She had sixteen one-man exhibitions and completed numerous portraits and figure-studies. Between 1947 to 1953, her religious feelings deepened and she painted a number of sacred subjects as well as carrying out commissions for Church art. Always intelligent, her work became increasingly emotional in later years. Maud Sumner's paintings are represented in every public collection in South Africa as well as being represented in a number of overseas public collections.Ref. Artvault
onsdag 6 oktober 2010
Iain Faulkner
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA (Honours) Degree in Fine Art, he has established himself as a skilled draughtsman, an artist with the integrity to embrace the difficult path of contemporary figurative painting wherein the yardsticks of competence and painterly skill can be measured and judged, warts and all. Still only in his thirties, Faulkner has already had numerous successful solo shows in the UK, USA, Spain and Italy.
måndag 4 oktober 2010
Childe Hassam
During the ensuing years Mr. Hassam painted many popular street and patriotic scenes in the city. Frequent travel to New England resulted in painting that depict scenes in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Isle of Shoals in New Hampshire, and Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Camille Pissarro
"The Hermitage, however realistic an arcadian scene it appears to be, belongs to Pissarro’s seemingly unfulfilled quest for a truthful manner of depiction. Shortly afterward he abandoned this Realist style for a looser brush and the atmospheric effects for which he is popularly known, the trademarks of Impressionism."
Cornelia Lauf
söndag 3 oktober 2010
Herman H. Wessel
A prominent member of Cincinnati's artistic community, Herman Wessel studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, Royal Academy in Munich, and Academie Julien in Paris. He taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy for 40 years and painted many prominent public murals. He and his wife Bessie Wessel worked closely with Frank Duveneck and became leading experts on authenticating his works.
lördag 2 oktober 2010
Margaret Jordan Patterson
Born in Soerabaija, Java, Miss Patterson worked during her lifetime as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher in Boston and Wellesley, MA. She studied art formally at the Pratt Institute, NY under Arthur Dow and with Herman Dudley Murphy and Charles Herbert Woodbury in Boston.
fredag 1 oktober 2010
Mårten Eskil Winge
I föräldrahemmet hade hans intresse väckts för de fornnordiska sagorna och under lärotiden uppmärksammades han för sina teckningar med fornnordiska motiv. Bland annat utförde han illustrationer till Adam Oehlenschlägers "Nordens Gudar" och kronprins Karls dikter"Fosterbröderna". Han attraherades av Göticismen och tillsammans med sin studiekamrat och vän konstnären August Malmström göt han nytt liv i de historiska traditionerna. Ref. Wikipedia
onsdag 29 september 2010
Laureano Barrau
When Laureano was 47 he came to the island of Ibiza. Enraptured by the charm and beauty of the island he resolved to make it his home. He settled with his wife in the town of Santa Eulalia del Rio where he painted what is considered his best work full of light and colour. He remained in Santa Eulalia for the rest of his life. He died in 1957 at the age of 94 and is buried in the cemetery in Santa Eulalia. Ref. Wikipedia
tisdag 28 september 2010
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
måndag 27 september 2010
Antonio Capel
Self-taught artist. From childhood showed their innate qualities for drawing and painting. He made his first exhibition when he only eleven years old. Thereafter, each year held another exhibition. In the fourteen years of age exhibited his work in Switzerland, where he was regarded by local critics as a genius of painting, because as stated, was not known at that time to any artist with the ability to perform works such as that such an early age. Ref. Wikipedia
lördag 25 september 2010
Henri-Charles Guerard
A fine French nineteenth century painter, woodcut artist and etcher, Henri Guerard first exhibited his art at the Paris Salon in 1870. A master of technique, Guerard was well known for his etchings both in black and white and in colors. He was also instrumental in introducing Japanese art to the Western world and illustrated Louis Gonse's, L'Art Japonais. Ref. Art of the Print
fredag 24 september 2010
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer är ansedd som en av de förnämsta av 1800-talets amerikanska målare och en av de mest kända inom amerikansk kultur.
torsdag 23 september 2010
måndag 20 september 2010
Emma Fordyce MacRae
Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974) Melina in Green (1930)She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists who worked and exhibited together. Her work — including still lives and paintings of women — shows the influence of Asian flower paintings and of Seurat. Ref. Wikipedia
torsdag 16 september 2010
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Marie Coca et sa fille Gilberte (1913)Detta porträtt av konstnärens brorsdotter, Maria Coca och hennes dotter Gilberte, tillhör en grupp målningar av Suzanne Valadons familj.
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