Click the image to enlarge it, please. This sumptious fruit salad was painted by Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire (French, 1845-1928) It’s called “Still life with fruits”. You can really smell those peaches. Yum! The French writer Marcel Proust frequently visited her popular salon / studio and claimed that she had created more roses than anyone, after [...]
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75 years ago, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration created the Public Works of Art Project. Artists from across the United States who participated in the programme, which lasted only six months from mid-December 1933 to June 1934, were encouraged (and paid) to depict “the American Scene”. There’s an exhibition currently showing [...]
The Mall Galleries, London, are waiting for the public’s vote in order to decide the winner of The Threadneedle Figurative Painting Prize. From an initial pool of 2,700 entries, 71 pictures have now been selected for final judging, with 7 works shortlisted for the prize. The final decision rests with the public, though, who can [...]
When you were very young, did you ever yearn for a great big paintbox like this? The 92 cake behemoth paintbox of my dreams, by Page of London. (Click it to see it bigger, please.) I remember wishing for a really big paintbox while using the piddly little 12 and 18 tablet jobs that were [...]
Dutch artist Teun Hocks doesn’t cut corners. His striking images are carefully created using brushes and camera. No digital montage tricks: Hocks hand paints backdrops on which he then photographs himself in bizarre poses. His work exhibits a delightful sense of silliness. (Click to make bigger). Untitled His work has a whiff of Réné Magritte, [...]
Artists Ron English and Adam Neate will share more than their ideology in an upcoming two man show at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms (London) in May. (Please click the small images to enlarge them) Press it. You know you want to…. (Thanks Damien, Thanks Edward.) The two images above are the work of the [...]
Hint: Turn your speakers down for this amazing video, so as to avoid the distractingly inane and vacuous comments of the onlookers. Thanks Paul!
This is post #11 in this mini series of snow scenes. In terms of technique, it’s the most demanding of all so far in this series. Although it’s only 10 by 13 inches ( or 25 by 33 cm ) it was made difficult by 2 factors. First, when the air temperature is close to [...]
Another contemporary painter tackles the theme of snow in this contrasty painting, called “Ten Below”. There’s something so American about the title that you might leap to the conclusion that the artist was from the USA. And you’d be absolutely right. His early years were spent in Spain, however. Ten Below He worked as a [...]
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