Category: Painting of the Week
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S. Elizabeth on Karen Kuykendall’s Cat People from the Outer Regions
S. Elizabeth, author of The Art of Darkness, The Art of the Occult, and The Art of Fantasy as well as the incredible Unquiet Things blog, tells us about painter Karen Kuykendall and growing up with the beautifully surreal Tarot of the Cat People.
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Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter
Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning. It started with perplexing matters concerning the future. Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other: ‘waters to…
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Maggi Hambling – Wall of Water IX
Maggi Hambling’s oil paintings express the rainbow of thoughts and emotions of watching the water. Images of the beach, the ocean, the sea, the waves are synonymous with luxury, opulence, with living your best life. From the white sand beaches of Florida’s Clearwater Beach to the glamour of Cannes and the Mediterranean World to the…
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left.…
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Italian Girl With Flowers by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s early portrait of youthful innocence is a masterwork of light. Rendered in liquid, dreamy oils in 1886, Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s impressionist portrait of a young Italian girl’s reverie both presages his later work while also standing resolutely apart. Sorolla y Bastida would later become known for epic works…
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