“Painterliness” generally refers to works with visible brushstrokes, “ the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled ma...

Not every man has gentians in his house Bavarian Gentian in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, o...

Casper David Friedrich, The Monk By the Sea , 1810 "No situation in the world could be more sad and eerie than this—as the only spa...

Jan Vermeer's View of Delft (1660-1661) may just be a perfect landscape painting. Once you've really looked at it, you realize ...

Aspiring artists often imitate an admired artist’s style. It's a great way to learn to paint and permanently  adds to one’s store of ava...

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Peasant Boy at a Market (l), Peasant Girl Catching a Flea (r). c. 1715. These two caught my eye at B...

Evening landscape by George Innes, 1890, produced by glazing. In his biography of his father, American landscape painter George Inness, ...