Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Fernando Botero, The Arnolfini (after Van Eyck)



Fernando Botero, The Arnolfini (after Van Eyck), 1960s

Walter Ufer

Walter Ufer (1876-1936)


Edvard Weie

Viggo Thorvald Edvard Weie (Danish, 1879-1943)


A Sunny Day in Boserup Forest, 1914


Lady with a Parasol, Christiansø, 1917

Viggo Thorvald Edvard Weie (1879-1943) was a Danish painter. His style was influenced by journeys to Italy (1907) and Paris (1912) where he came into contact with French impressionists such as Cézanne.

After returning to Denmark in 1912, he spent a period on the tiny island of Christiansø near Bornholm. He was one of the earliest participants in the Bornholm school of painters, contributing to landscapes and seascapes in a distinctive modernistic style.

The greys of his earlier work soon gave way to brighter colours in his dramatic cubist compositions combining sea, rocks and figures, several including Poseidon, with violent brushstrokes. In his later work, the strokes can hardly be seen and his paintings seem to be characterised by mystic dreams. Finally he experimented with richer, glowing colours and lighter brushwork.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Frederick Judd Waugh


Jersey City at Sunset, c. 1907- 08

Achille Funi


L’uomo che scende dal tram, 1914


Autoritratto con brocca blu, 1920


Nude

Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movement as a painter of Cubo-Futurist works in 1914. Having enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion and served in World War I, he became a champion of the "return to order". He studied Graeco-Roman statuary and was influenced by De Chirico's Metaphysical painting. His Autoritratto da giovane ("Self-portrait as a Young Man"; 1924) is in the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano.
In 1920, Funi met the journalist and art patron Margherita Sarfatti, who took an interest in him as one of a group of artists whose work she believed represented modern Italy. He participated in an exhibition Marfatti presented in 1923 entitled Sette Pittori del Novecento (Seven Painters of the Twentieth Century), which included Funi, Anselmo Bucci, Leonardo Dudreville, Gian Emilio Malerba, Piero Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi. Funi became one of the leaders of Novecento Italiano, taking part in the movement’s first and second exhibitions (Milan, 1926 and 1929). The author of numerous frescoes in the 1930s, he was a signatory of the Manifesto della Pittura Murale together with Mario Sironi in 1933 and became one of the artists most esteemed by the Fascist regime, obtaining a teaching post at the Brera Academy in 1939. The period after World War II saw the continuation of decorative works for public and religious buildings in Milan and a parallel focus on landscapes. He died in Appiano Gentile on 26 July 1972.

Kamilla Czastka


Elephant in beeing. 
They stand together, close together. Mindful, but not oppressive.

Old elephant, 2013
With a matter of course the time of the no-longer-life-skills is taken. This house of the soul will leave soon. It is perhaps the last course

Nikolaos Lytras


The straw hat 1925


Boat with Sail (Panormos, Tinos), 1923-1926



George Breitner

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857 - Amsterdam, 1923) 

Early morning Sun

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, September 12, 1857 - Amsterdam, June 5, 1923) was a Dutch painter, famous for his view of Amsterdam city life. His work is related to that of the 'Eighties', a group of artists with great influence on the Dutch art world during the eighties of the nineteenth century. Painters like Isaac Israels, Willem Witsen, and poets like Willem Kloos and Louis of Deyssel belonged to his circle.

Marie Jordan before Breitner’s copy of Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson, c. 1890

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Tom Judd - The Diver Again (Misplaced Confidence)

The Diver Again (Misplaced Confidence), 2014
oil and collage


 Hurricane (2017) 
36 x 40 mixed media on panel

Jane Peterson (USA 1876-1965)

 Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)

Reading at a Cafe (ca. 1920)


French Landscape, 1910s


Greetings from Skyscraperland, c.1910


Mausoleum Constantinople



Sunlight and Shadow, Venice
oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm

A Landing Along the Grand Canal, Venice


By the Water (after 1930)
gouache on paper 45.1 x 59.1 cm

Jane Peterson (1876–1965) was an American artist. She was known for her impressionistic depictions of landscapes and floral still lifes. She blended traditional approaches to painting with the vanguard art of the Impressionists and Post-impressionists.
Two of her works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Parade" (Gouache, watercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper) and "Turkish Fountain with Garden" (from Louis C. Tiffany Estate, Oyster Bay) (1910, Oil and charcoal on canvas).

Monday, April 7, 2014

Lu Cong, Ms. Kimberly I


Ms. Kimberly I (2009), oil on panel, 30 x 30 inches






Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell (American 1857 – 1926)


Blue Night, London, c. 1894 - 1909
Watercolour on light blue paper. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles


Brooklyn Bridge, Lighting Up, circa 1900


Clouds over New York Harbor

Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American artist and author.
Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London. He produced numerous books (many of them in collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell), but his chief distinction is as an original etcher and lithographer, and notably as an illustrator. Their close acquaintance with Whistler led the Pennells to undertake a biography of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on the right to use his letters, the book was published in 1908.

He taught at Slade School of Art. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900), and 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
more on wikipedia

Friday, April 4, 2014

Roger de la Fresnaye


The Road, La Ferté-sous-Juarre, 1911


Landscape at Ferte-Sous Jouarre, Final Version, 1911