Dose of Art #181: Edward Hopper – Gas (1940)
The descriptions of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) where you can see this painting says it all: This work […]
Month: February 2018
Dose of Art #180: Jacob van Ruisdael – Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem (1650)
Van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter in the Dutch Golden age and is considered to be the pre-eminent landscape artist […]
Dose of Art #179: Pierre Auguste Cot – La Tempête / The Storm (1880)
Paul et Virginie is a novel by the Frenchmen Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. First published in 1788 it tells the […]
Dose of Art #178: Severin Roesen – Still Life with Fruit (not dated – the 19th century)
Roesen was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States in 1848. He painted over 300 paintings, […]
Dose of Art #177: Rogier van der Weyden – Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460)
Painted on an oak panel, this small painting – 34 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 in) – shows an […]
Dose of Art #176: Simon de Myle – Noah’s Ark On The Mount Ararat (1570)
This is the only known painting of Simon de Myle, of who we know nothing. It is signed with Simone […]
Dose of Art #175: Anton Mauve – Changing Pasture (c. 1880)
Mauve was committed to record peasant life, Dutch skies and the flat country. Changing Pasture exemplifies all that; on one […]
Dose of Art #174: Titian – Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570)
EX PRAETERITO/PRAESENS PRUDENTER AGIT/NE FUTURA ACTIONẼ DETURPET reads the (barely visible) inscription: “From the experience of the past, the present […]
Dose of Art #173: René Magritte – The Portrait (1935)
It could have been just a still-life – be it a modern one – if it wasn’t for the eye […]
Dose of Art #172: Rembrandt van Rijn – Slaughtered Ox (1655)
Slaughtered Ox is a peculiar painting by Rembrandt who we all know from his spectacular The Nightwatch. At 95.5 by […]