The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) by Edouard Manet https://www.nga.gov/artworks/45878-tragic-actor-rouviere-hamlet
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) [fig3] and the Standard Bearer (Allentown Art Museum
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Vija Celmins creates photorealistic drawings and paintings of the natural world. Her detailed, meditative images of subjects such as ocean waves or stars in the sky are often rendered in gray, black, and white.
Celmins earned her master’s degree in art from the University of California, Los
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
A striking young woman—with loose, untied hair and sleeves and a richly jeweled but informal gown—returns the viewer’s gaze. In her time, a viewer would have seen her as being in a state of semiundress.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969: 117. 1970 Lane, Barbara G.
Painted in October 1909, the remarkably expressive and dynamic Both Members of This Club is the third and largest of George Bellows’s early prizefighting subjects. The painting’s title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as “both members� to circumvent the Lewis Law of 1900 that had banned public boxing matches in New York State.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus
One of the leading artists of the post–Johns/Rauschenberg generation, Terry Winters wields his brush with a knowledge and conviction that make periodic talk of the death of painting seem empty. Bitumen , 1986, is a work from the first decade of his career—when Winters was exploring such basic natural processes as crystal formation, fungal growth, and (as in this canvas) cellular division, and when he was equally immersed in the natural history of painting itself.
Washington, D.C., 1987. 1991 Terry Winters, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Bellevue, Washington; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; California Afro-American Museum, Los