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Logsdail didn’t fit in a camp of his time. He painted en plain air like the Impressionists, but was dedicated to picture-perfect renderings, something that was possible because of emerging technologies of the industrial age. It’s so precise I would guess it was projection-aided, but I’m not sure if that was available at...

Sonja Ingrid Bata was a Swiss Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, collector and museum founder, who initially trained as an architect....

Oil on cardboard; 31.5 x 21.5 cm....

from Wikipedia - Painted in 1917, the uncommissioned piece depicting an unidentified woman was on an easel in his studio when he died in 1918.

Dominique Lang (1874-1919) was born in 1874 (the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris) and is considered today to be Luxembourg’s most important Impressionist painter....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4078504...

Nikola Petrov was a Bulgarian landscape painter and graphic artist; also known for his portrait sketches and watercolors....

Detailed Analysis of this painting: blog.artsper.com/…/understanding-velazquezs-iconi…...

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From the The Secret life of Hydrants by illustrator Zina Saunders: "The water beast, Hydra, guarding the entrance to the Underworld in lower Manhattan awaits Hercules: “Bring it on, big guy!”...

Part of the Hyperrealistic Art Movement beginning in the 1970s in America and Britain, this sculpture is on display at the Saatchi Gallery of London....

It was at the age of 25 when Joseph’s love for the craft blossomed. As a creative and struggling actor in Los Angeles, he found art as a way to express himself freely. Painting became his way of being creative in a buzzing city and being grounded and mentally refreshed. After a year of trial and error and honing his technical...

Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City’s interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf’s do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art....

The Red Vineyards near Arles​, a painting made by Vincent van Gogh in November 1888, in Arles, when Vincent was living in relative happiness with Gauguin (but only a month before he would cut off his left earlobe in a fit that has never been fully understood)....

At the Salon of 1804, Gros debuted his painting Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. The painting launched his career as a successful painter. It depicts Bonaparte in Jaffa visiting soldiers infected with the bubonic plague. He is portrayed reaching out to one of the sick, unfazed by the illness. According to P. Jill...

Nerdwriter did an excellent video on Sargent’s paintings...

From the British Museum - “An icon of Aztec art, this turquoise mosaic was carved from one piece of cedar wood before being decorated with turquoise, coral and shell using an adhesive made from pine resin. In Mesoamerica, serpents were associated with powers of regeneration and the ability to move between living and ancestral...