For sunflower lovers: http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/van-goghs-sunflowers-at-national-gallery.html
I've never seen it in person, but here's Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'Dance At Le Moulin de la Galette' on Google Art Project. http://www.google.com/culturalinsti...-galette/rQEx7CtGiKE3yg?projectId=art-project and of course the ever popular 'Starry Night' by Vincent Van Gogh http://www.google.com/culturalinsti...ry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?projectId=art-project Google Art Project let's you zoom in the see fine details and brushwork.
An exhibition of works by Joseph Wright of Derby: http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/joseph-wright-of-derby-in-bath.html Joseph Wright - The Alchymist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone
This is an amazing story painting. Very complex in composition, beautifully executed in this realist style. Characters are fully described down to the writer in the centre of the painting. The artist has drawn my eye to the centre and the point of the story and then described the story and coloured it with all of these other characters. Everything works because of the composition and the actions of the performers. You can see that the artist used one model several times which makes this painting more interesting to me. It is like a play in painting.
P. S. Krøyer - Summer Evening on the Skagen Southern Beach with Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer, 1893. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagen_Painters
There was an excellent Bellows retrospective at the Met. last year. This painting is in the catalogue, but oddly I don't remember seeing it. Anyhow, it is a good painting, and it's interesting to compare it to Bellows's earlier boxing paintings (1907-09), which I think partly because of the faceless anonymity of the fighters have a special raw power. Here is "Stag at Sharkey's," probably the best known. 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Matisse - The Fall of Icarus There's an exhibition of Matisse cut-outs about to open at Tate Modern in London. There's a good write-up by Matisse biographer Hilary Spurling here: http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/henri-matisse-cut-outs-at-tate-modern.html
Some really fantastic posts here of art of all kinds. Something really grabs me about John Singer Sargents' Cashmere
Regarding John Singer Sargent, a great painter, here are two portraits that he made of a great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, first in August of 1885 and then seated in 1887. A preparatory sketch ia also a favourite of mine.....
At the Louvre, there are two wonderful paintings by Raphael (Castiglione) and Titian (Man with a Glove) that are near the Mona Lisa. There can be scores of people looking at the Mona Lisa and hardly anyone looking at these two great paintings.
Y'all should see Tim's Vermeer, in which a obsessed man with too much money and time and no painting experience tries to recreate The Music Lesson and solve a mystery in the process. Produced by Penn and Teller, directed by Teller. Do see it in the theater to appreciate the brushwork detail.