Time Is Running Out
RR Bridge #1 by Robert Sampson Time is running out to catch the exciting Spring exhibition at the Artists’ House Gallery in Old City, Philadelphia. The gallery, located at 57 N. Second Street in the...
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Russian-born, U.S.-based artist Vladimir Kush describes his work as “metaphorical realism”, but his literary themed paintings could easily be called biblio-surrealist. Working primarily in oil on...
View ArticleTransformative Cartography
I was captivated by Madrid-based artist Fernando Vicente’s intriguing series called “Atlas”, which is based on antique maps. The translucent painting allows the original geographic features of the old...
View ArticleStill Life With Books
I recently ran across a blog that was “offering’ a download of this painting (see above) to be used as a screen saver. It looked very familiar and after a little research I realized that it was by the...
View ArticleDaily Life of Gods
Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov creates these wonderful mash-ups from classical paintings and street scenes in Kiev. In his series “The Daily Life of Gods” he photoshops cherubs, angels, goddesses,...
View ArticleVan Gogh in Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago has found a very clever way to promote their upcoming “Van Gogh Bedrooms” exhibition (Feb. 14 to May 16). The museum has created a real life replica of the artist’s famous...
View ArticleI needed color
Okay, I admit that when I first ran across this short documentary video about the artwork from actor/comedian Jim Carrey I waited for the punchlines, but they never came. The film shows Carrey...
View ArticleThe Mind Loves The Unkown
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown since meaning of the mind is itself unknown.” Filed under: Art, Europe, Museums Tagged: Belgium, Brussels, Painting, Rene...
View ArticleFall into Autumn with Van Gogh
Filed under: Art, Europe Tagged: Autumn, Fall, Painting, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent Van Gogh
View ArticleGet Smart
Smartify is a very clever free app that allows users to scan artworks to identify them and then get meaningful background information. This Shazam for art is already available for more than thirty...
View ArticleReading 1932
Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (The Reading) 1932 : The artist’s “muse” Marie-Therese Walter asleep in a chair with a book in her lap.
View ArticleSometimes in Winter
Gabriele Münter (Berlin, 1877 – 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily...
View ArticleStrap-on your skates
Winter Landscape with Skaters or Winterlandschap met Ijsvermaak is a c.1608 oil on oak painting by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.The painting...
View ArticleMaking Hay
“Haymaking” by William Carlos Williams The living quality of the man’s mind stands out and its covert assertions for art, art, art! painting that the Renaissance tried to absorb but it remained a...
View ArticleThe Feast of Venus
Last year, the Belgian tourist bureau VisitFlanders commissioned the folks at SkullMapping to create a wonderful bit of projection mapping to entertain passengers while they waited for flights at...
View ArticleTableaux Vivants
Due to Covid curfews, a group of French librarians used their free time to recreate book related paintings in a series of amusing tableaux vivants. très drôle The entire album can be viewed on Calameo...
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