Tag Archives: Art Blog

The Pastoral Scenes of Jan Siberechts

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

My Daily Art Display today features the 17th century Flemish painter, Jan Siberechts.  I will also look at some of Siberechts works and look how his style of painting changed during his lifetime.  In today’s blog I will concentrate on … Continue reading →

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The Mancorbo Canal in the Picos de Europa by Carlos de Haes (1876)

Posted on June 15, 2013 by

My Daily Art Display blog today incorporates the two things I enjoy most in art; landscape paintings and discovering a painter I had, up till now, never heard of.   Today I am featuring the nineteenth century Belgian born Spanish landscape … Continue reading →

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Joaquín Sorolla (part 3)

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

In my final look at the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla I want to show you some of his portraiture work which featured his family and finally take a look at the house in which he and his family lived and … Continue reading →

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Joaquín Sorolla (part 2)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

By 1885, Joaquín Sorolla had settled down to life in Rome but during that year he also spent the spring and summer in Paris.  At this time in the French capital, the Impressionists were in the ascendancy after they and … Continue reading →

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Joaquín Sorolla (part 1)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

I have said on a number of occasions that when one is in a large city which has one or maybe two famous large art museums, and when one is time-limited, one should search around and look for a smaller … Continue reading →

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George Bellows, his wife and children

Posted on May 27, 2013 by

George Bellow’s depiction of his wife sitting at the piano entitled Emma at the Piano was completed in 1914.  It is a beautiful portrayal of his wife, dressed in a rich blue coloured coat which along with the dark background … Continue reading →

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Vanitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

  Vanitas is an explicit genre of art in which the artist uses gloomy and moody symbolic objects in order that the viewer becomes very aware of the brevity of life and the inevibility of death.   The origins of the … Continue reading →

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Peter Paul Rubens and Hélène Fourment

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

This superb portrait by Rubens of his wife Hélène and their three year old son, Frans can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.   Frans is the only one of their children featured which makes us … Continue reading →

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Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

This painting, which is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich is entitled The Honeysuckle Bower and was painted by Rubens the year he married Isdabella Brant.  It is a full-length double portrait of the happy couple who have the honeysuckle … Continue reading →

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Rembrandt, Geertje Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life.  Later she would become his lover and would remain by his side until the … Continue reading →

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