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Felice Casorati's Cool Portraits
The MusĆ©e d'Orsay held an interesting (to me) exhibitĀ titled Dolce vita ? Du Liberty au design italien (1900-1940)"Dolce Vita? From the Liberty to Italian Design (1900-1940)" (running 14 April - 13...
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Towards the End: Klimt's Portraits
A few years ago I wrote about the early works of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Now let's take a look at some portraits he made using a style different from that of his most famous paintings.If you are...
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Douglas DC-8 Interiors
I didn't fly often during the 1960s -- only 11 times by jetliner, the rest being military aircraft. Of those eleven flights, eight were on United Airlines Douglas DC-8s.That was in the days when the...
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Towards the End: Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) -- Wikipedia entry here -- was a modernist painter generally classified as a Symbolist. Although he often engaged in modernist desiderata such as distortion and color...
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Al Parker's Mother-Daughter Ladies' Home Journal Covers
Al Parker (1906ā1985) was the top dog in "slick" (smooth, good quality paper) magazines during the 1940s and 50s according to many fellow-illustrators, men who themselves were at the top of their...
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Egon Schiele's Nicer Paintings
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) died young -- not from dissipation, but from the great influenza epidemic of 1918 that also snuffed out his wife who was carrying his child. Biographical information can be...
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Early Boeing 747s: March 1970 Photos
The Boeing 747, the original "jumbo jet," had its maiden flight 9 February 1969 and first flew commercially 22 January 1970. These facts and much more are detailed here in a Wikipedia entry.Below are...
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In the Beginning: Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud (1922-2011), grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, is considered by the Art Establishment to be a leading British 20th century modernist. His Wikipedia entry is here.Alas, I fail to see...
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Molti Ritratti: Queen Victoria
Victoria (1819-1901) became Queen of the United Kingdom in 1837, about the time photography emerged.In theory, that makes it possible to compare photos of her with painted portraits. However, based on...
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Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) was a Belgian painter who settled on a 1920-vintage style by the 1930s and kept at it for the rest of his long career with few changes in subject matter. Biographical...
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Some Artzybasheff Early-1950s Time Covers
Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire, and in 1919 left Russia for the United States in the wake of the Communist Revolution. I have no information regarding art...
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Rockwell Kent Illustrations
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a painter and illustrator whose style varied little over his long career. But it was a spare, modernist-leaning style in synch with the Art Deco and Moderne mood from the...
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Out of Character: Pierre Bonnard and Odilon Redon
I recently saw the Seattle Art Museum exhibit"Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" that featured mostly small paintings from a variety of artists active 1860-1900, approximately. In...
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Raymond Leech, East Anglian Vettriano
I recently stumbled across images of Raymond Leech (1949 - ) paintings. As this biographical sketch indicates, Leech is based in England's East Anglia and paints coastal scenes, some of which are found...
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Alfredo Ambrosi, Aeropittura Artist
Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (1901-1945) -- Wikipedia entry in French here -- was not the most famous or best practitioner of Aeropittura, a late form of Futurism, but I thought it would be worth presenting...
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Celebrity Artists: Physicist Richard Feynman
My guess is that it is amateur artists who keep most art supply stores in business. And without that demand, there might be fewer makers of paint and equipment and prices of their wares might well be a...
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Marcel Rieder by Lamplight
Marcel Rieder (1862-1942) was an Alsacian who spent most of his life and career in Paris, as this brief Wikipedia mentions.It also states that he started as a Symbolist, but by 1894 shifted to what...
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Guilty Pleasures: Noir Art of Glen Orbik
Glen Orbik (1963-2015) died of cancer all too soon. He was a talented artist who divided his time between teaching and creating superhero images and crime-noir paperback book cover illustrations (also...
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Walter Everett: Two Works in Progress
Walter H. Everett (1880-1946), a student of the great Howard Pyle, was an exceptionally good illustrator who had a couple of character flaws. One was an inability to meet deadlines, a trait that surely...
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In the Beginning: Joaquin Sorolla
JoaquĆn Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) has regained a measure of the fame he enjoyed in his lifetime. For a summary of his life and career, click here.Sorolla incorporated little of mainstream modernism...
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