Artists have delighted, over the years, in giving visual form to imaginative ideas and passages from literature, doubly so when the source itself is straight out of imagination. Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, “double, double, [...]
Not long ago we compared equally innovative still life flower painters Eduard Manet and Henri Fantin-Latour: two 19th century French artists painting at close to the same time – 1882 - 1885 – with very [...]
A typical Crane of his later period (1920s). Robert Bruce Crane (1857 – October 30, 1937) learned his tonalistic approach from French landscapist Jean Charles Cazin (1841–1901), with whom he studied for a period. Cazin was [...]
Can scent form the basis of an artwork? Can there be a visual aesthetics of smell? The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse is a visual testament to intangible qualities we know and feel [...]
By daring big leaps from one plateau to the next, Dwight Tryon (1849-1925) became a famous early 20th century Tonalist, a poet-in-paint of the raw New England countryside. Like his fellow Tonalists (most of whom [...]
Blazing foliage and sun-dappled dirt roads lined with red-gold oaks maples – wonderful fall motifs. But the ingenious work of artist Daniel Gerhartz proves you can create paintings that say “autumn” without having to depict [...]
Far more than offering us a rustic church nestled in a quiet grove of trees, Casper David Friedrich’s Abbey among the Oak Trees set the stage for 200 years of gothic horror. This artist had [...]
Master watercolor realist Ian McEwan has been awarded first place in the PleinAir Salon’s monthly competition for his painting, “Morning Calm.” McEwan is president of the watercolor division of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters. [...]
You’d be surprised how much you can improve your own painting by learning about art that’s “stood the test of time.” However, it’s important to remember that art history has not given all the great [...]
In the winter of 1883 Édouard Manet, then 51 and confined to bed, was dying a painful death. And yet, over the course of his final year of life, the artist had been distilling the [...]
