Ivan Shishkin In The Wild North, 1891 Ivan Shishkin Winter, 1890 Continue reading
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Painting Of The Day: Ivan Kramskoy
Ivan Kramskoy The Unknown Woman, 1883 Although a number of critics were indignant when the painting was first exhibited and condemned what they saw as a depiction of a haughty and immoral woman, its popularity has grown with changes in public taste. Kramskoy remarked, “Some people have said it is not known who this woman … Continue reading
Painting Of The Day: Ivan Shiskin Remix
A remix of the famous “A Rye Field” painted by Ivan Shiskin in 1878: Continue reading
Paintings Of The Day: Brooklyn Art Museum
Louis Comfort Tiffany On the Way Between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes, 1872 Frederick Arthur Bridgman An Interesting Game, 1881 William Merritt Chase Moorish Warrior, 1878 Edwin Lord Weeks Old Blue-Tiled Mosque, outside Delhi, India, 1883-85 John Henry Twachtman Meadow Flowers (Golden Rod and Wild Aster), … Continue reading
Paintings Of The Day: The Solar Wind
A couple of my favorites from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto… The Polaris, Far North by William Bradford: Return of the Head Hunter by Arthur Heming: Continue reading
Paintings of the Day: Arnold Böcklin’s Island of the Dead
Now located in Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie: As an interesting “oh by the way”… Adolf Hitler was a great admirer of Böcklin and in 1933 acquired this painting, hanging it first in the Berghof in Obersalzberg and then, after 1940, in the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Fortunately, this version (my favorite) survived the war, unlike … Continue reading
Paintings of the Day: Frank Frazetta
Accuse me of immaturity, but I still love Frank Frazetta’s works of ax-wielding muscular warriors, scantily clad heroines and ferocious beasts of prey just as much now as when I was in my youth. Frank in his prime… Handsome, no? Frank Frazetta died on May 10, 2010. **** Below, I have collected some of his … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 