Master paintings

I found this great image online. you could just sense the paints thickness, he preached to let the paint retain the tracks of the brush. i have a little suspicion that as much as he squinted he would also blurred his vision with eyes wide open in order to eliminate the number of planes and detail, in order to see color mass and color variations. This is why i think he was among the greatest to capture flesh tones because he then was more able to see color by itself instead of color as the…

Leonard da Vinci was born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci on the 15th of April 1452 in Vinci, Florence (present day Italy) Being a scientist, sculpture, writer, and painter amongst many other things. He has been described as one of the greatest...

Often derided as staidly traditional, John Singer Sargent in fact provided a glimpse of the modern world. Ahead of a major new exhibition, Sarah Churchwell surveys the sensational portraits that caught the imagination of painters and authors alike

John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 Verenigde Staten

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Leffel’s paintings have, for more than five decades, maintained a conversation with Rembrandt.

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This is part of an occasional series dealing with detail images of paintings featuring the brushwork of the artist. Previous posts can be found via the "Up close" topic label link on the sidebar. The present post deals with J.C. (Joseph Christian) Leyendecker (1874-1951), one of the most successful illustrators during the first four decades of the last century. His production of cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, America's leading general-interest magazine at the time, was roughly…

John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 Verenigde Staten

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John Singer Sargent (USA, 1856-1925) - Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, detail - 1902 - oil on canvas - National Portrait Gallery, London

Painting of a bust-length woman looking over her shoulder and wearing a headdress and a large pearl earring.

‘The Blue Boy’ has been a star of The Huntington’s collections since we opened as the first old masters museum in Los Angeles in 1928

Joseph Lorusso, After the Bath, oil, 21 x 16.

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The Masterstroke

The illustrator Dean Cornwell was so damn good that when he painted a moonlit scene, he didn't need to show the moon, or the night sky, or any sky at all. Instead, he was able to convey moonlight using his exquisite control over the hue of skin: And the reflections on those bracelets: and even his treatment of shadow: Photos courtesy of the Kelly Collection of American Illustration Cornwell wasn't following any formula. You'll never find a tube of paint labeled "moonlight." For a different…