Bisa Butler creates portraits that are singular and striking. Her works, intricately layered and vibrantly colored quilts, resurface and reimagine historical narratives of Black life.
65 Original Artworks curated by India Balyejusa, Mediterranean Revival. Original Art Collection created on 1/20/2023.
Gouache is an effective medium for portraits. Here are some examples by Valentin Serov (1865-1911) to serve as inspiration. Portrait of...
Gerhartz was born in Wisconsin where he now lives with his wife Jennifer and their three young children. His interest in art piqued at an early age when a teenage friend
Portrait of Karin Leyden (1931) by Jan Sluijters thank you blueruins
It’s one of the most original self-portraits ever painted. And, yes, it’s a lot of yellow.
Michael Malm: "The human figure, in my mind is the most beautiful of God’s creations". Well versed in a variety of painting styles, from still lifes
Fabulous Illustrator artist Russ Mills. (UK)
Nicolas Régnier, « Vanité » ou « Jeune femme à la toilette », Circa 1626. Huile sur toile, 130 x 105,5 cm, Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts © 2014 DeAgostini P…
A powerful new exhibition shows how the great Berliner raged against war and poverty – and how death was her lifelong creative companion
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague's Trade Fair Palace
Alfons Mucha, Study of Drapery, 1900.
Like a lot of art on this blog, Meghan Howland’s beautiful portraits have a very dreamlike atmosphere. Her characters seem to be represented in a more complex context however, balancing somewhere on a line between danger and security. I love how she includes natural elements in her paintings, such as flowers and birds.. It raises […]
Human spirography, Tony Orrico makes these stunning drawings for 4 hours sometimes to make one large piece. I think they are just an amazingly beautiful feat of patience.
Hope Gangloff's art directs yourattention to times in our lives we've all experienced. Moments withgreat friends or times spent alone in thought, times that seemed topass too quickly and are now only tiny little slivers in our memory'ssea of change. Even moments we look back upon and wonder why we evenrecall them at all. Hope describes them here with beautiful talentand enlightens our senses with a fantastic sense of nostalgia.Working with everything from ball point pens to oil paint, Hope'soeuvre is quite the spectacle. Hope Gangloff lives and works in NewYork and currently has an exhibition up at Susan Inglett Galleryin Chelsea until March 12th. - Zach Tutor
Émile Friant 1863-1932 Frankrijk
A cloud of criticism, apology and embarrassment hangs over the oeuvre of Ferdinand Hodler, the prodigiously talented Swiss painter who was born the same year as Vincent van Gogh (1853) and died, like Gustav Klimt, in 1918. Hodler’s work bridges the academic neo-classicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (his teacher’s teacher) at one end and the Viennese Expressionism of Klimt and Egon Schiele on the other, a coupling that accounts as much for its manipulative magnetism as for its overdetermined artifice.
