Happy Easter - 2019

The Descent from the Cross c. 1435. Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden.

Crown of Thorns

Christ with Crown of Thorns (1450~)
55×39 cm / Tempera on Wood.
Fra Angelico (@1395-1455)
Location: the dome in Leghorn, It.

Sunset at Montmajour

Sunset at Montmajour, 1888

Vincent van Gogh

New York Times article.  This is a newly authenticated work by van Gogh, and from the time when he was at the height of his powers.  You have to love what new technology can do to prove the veracity of 125 year old works.

Matisse Magic and Thoughts

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Somebody please tell The Met that their Matisse drawing,

...is a preparation for this painting:

"There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put into his painting. It is other people who find these treasures in it, one by one, and the richer a painting is in surprises of this sort, in treasures, the greater its author." Henri Matisse.

My review of The Conversation, 1938.

Image descriptions and credits:


Study for Song, 1938
Henri Matisse
Charcoal on paper
25 3/4 x 20 in. (65.4 x 50.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 (2002.456.45)
© 2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.


The Conversation, 1938.
Henri Matisse
o/c
18 3/8 in. x 21 3/4 in. (46.67 cm x 55.25 cm)
Acquired 1993
Collection SFMOMA
Bequest of Mr. James D. Zellerbach
© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
93.149
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/4132##ixzz2Mm3mhbl6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ahem. I Painted in This Guy's Studio, Once. Just Sayin...

My friend, oil painter and pastelist Ken Elliott, is not shy about putting down color.  Watch this fine artist create a colorist landscape, in its entirety, on video.  

For The Color blog.

Yellows Across the Lake

oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches

Ken Elliott