-
Recent Posts
- Vanitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly
- Peter Paul Rubens and Hélène Fourment
- Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant
- Rembrandt, Geertje Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels
- Rembrandt von Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburg
- The Holy Family paintings by Joos van Cleve
- Virgin and Child with Saints by Rogier van der Weyden
- The Portraiture of Christen Købke
- The Frederiksborg Castle paintings by Christen Købke
- The War Series by George Bellows
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
Meta
Categories
Blogroll
Blog Stats
- 640,080 hits
Monthly Archives: February 2012
La Vucciria by Renato Guttuso
I am leaving the final part of My Daily Art Display’s look at the life of Paul Gaugin until my next blog and thought I would feature a painting I came across the other day when I was watching an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Art History, Italian artists
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, folk art, Italian Painters, La Vaucirria, La Vucirria by Guttuso, Palermo, Renato Guttuso, Renato Gutusso, Sicilian art
9 Comments
The Swineherd, Brittany, The Schuffenecker Family. Madame Gaugin by Paul Gaugin.
Life Story of Paul Gaugin (Part 2) In my last blog I gave you a brief outline of Gaugin’s life up until April 1871 when Gauguin, having completed his military service, returned to his late mother’s home in St Cloud, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Art History, French painters, Gaugin
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Emile Schuffenecker, French painter, Impressionism, Impressionist art, Mette Gad, Paul Gaugin, Pont Aven
1 Comment
The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gaugin
The featured artist in My Daily Art Display blog today is the much loved French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. This is the first time I have featured a painting by the artist which I am sure is very remiss of … Continue reading
Isabella by John Everett Millais
My favourite Pre-Raphaelite artist is, without doubt, John Everett Millais and I have featured a number of his paintings in previous blogs. As you know, as I have mentioned it before, I like paintings with a story behind what is … Continue reading
Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy by Sir William Beechey
The artist I am featuring in My Daily Art Display today is the English portrait painter, Sir William Beechey. William Beechey was born in Burford Oxfordshire in 1753. He was the eldest of five children of William Beechey and Hannah … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Art History, English artist, Portraiture, Sir William Beechey
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, English painter, Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy by William Beechey, Portraiture, Poverty and slavery in art, Sir Thomas Ford, Sir William Beechey
1 Comment
An Idyll by Maurice William Greiffenhagen
My featured artist today with the Germanic sounding surname was actually a British painter and Royal Academician. Maurice William Greiffenhagen was born in London in 1862. His parents were both Germans from the Northern Baltic region. At the age of … Continue reading
Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud
A few days ago I visited my two children in London and went on a few gallery visits. I had managed to get tickets for my daughter and myself for the David Hockney Exhibition at the Royal Academy which was … Continue reading
The Monk by George Inness
For my artist today I had decided to cross the Atlantic and look at the work of an American painter. I have always liked the beautiful landscape works of the Hudson River School artists and so I dipped into my … Continue reading
Hush and Hushed by Frank Holl
I get great pleasure in “discovering” new artists. Today I am going to look at the life of an artist I had never previously heard of and maybe he is somebody that you have never come across before. In My … Continue reading
The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh
In past blogs I have featured Dutch and Flemish paintings depicting jolly peasants as they happily amuse themselves at work or at play. I can think of many paintings by the likes of the Bruegels, Jan Steen and Adriaen van … Continue reading
