Raphael paintings - web museum, Parris

Madonna dell Granduca - Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cm

Maddalena

St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 28.5 x 21.5 cm

St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 30 x 26 cm

The small Cowper Madonna - Oil on wood, 59.5 x 44 cm

The nymph Galatea - Fresco, 295 x 225 cm

Bindo Altoviti - Oil on wood, 60 x 44 cm

Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO , master painter was born in 1483, it was the largest and most successful in Urbino and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his great figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is trendy for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.

While we may term other working paintings, those of Raphael are living things; the flesh palpitate, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere.

Nine paintings by wesslers

There are nine paintings by Waters, who also make musical instruments and is a sculptor, graphic artist, musician and educator; and 11 by Wessler, plus his self-portrait, which hangs separately near the piano.

The paintings of the Wessler, a Coast urologist who died in January at age 92 and was widely recognized for his watercolor job, are on loan by his family for this exhibit.
Waters presents dramatic sun scenes and waterscapes that regularly portray atmospheric turbulence and are inspired by local and distant locations, including his travels in Hawaii and Roatan Island, Honduras.

Wessler’s paintings of figures and landscapes are in soft colors usually associated with the medium, and range from almost-photographically realistic to a blend of figurative and abstract. “Piano Player” is one such blend with sharp lines of the player’s face and hands that move into an increasingly abstract background.

Most popular BP Portrait award prizes

An eerie and unsettling portrait of a young girl, a picture of a boy about to become a man, and a painting of a man who looks as if he has fully enjoyed the pleasures of being a man will compete for one of the UK's most popular art prizes, it was announced yesterday(april 21).

The shortlist was exposed for this year's BP Portrait award, now in its 30th year and as keenly contested as ever. In whole, 1,901 people entered works, the biggest entry and 10% up on last year.

The three artists competing for the £25,000 prize were named as Michael Gaskell, Annalisa Avancini, and Peter Monkman.

Most expensive paintings at all times

The world's most famous paintings, particularly works done before 1800, are commonly owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless.

oil on canvas
23.4" x 22"
Dr. Gachet - Vincent van Gogh, 1890 , sold for $82,500,000 on May 15, 1990.

oil, silver, and gold on canvas
54.3" x 54.3"

Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt, 1907 , sold for $135,000,000 on Jun 18, 2006 by Maria Altmann.

oil on canvas
39.4" × 32"
Garçon à la pipe - Pablo Picasso, 1905 - sold for $104,168,000 on May 4, 2004 .

oil on canvas

51" x 38"

Dora Maar au Chat - Pablo Picasso, 1941 - sold for $95,200,000 on May 3, 2006 .

oil on fabric

51.6" x 69"
Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 - sold for $78,100,000 on May 17, 1990 .

oil on canvas

56" x 71.6"
Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens, 1611 - sold for £49,506,650 ($75,930,440) on Jul 10, 2002 .

oil on canvas
16" x 13"
sold for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York.

Painted in ca. 1893-1894 - sold for $60,500,000 on May 10, 1999

painted in 1901 - sold for $55,000,000 November 8, 2000 .

Vincent van Gogh , France in 1889 - sold for $ 54,000,000.

Famous painter Leonardo was born apr 15 and his bio-data

The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15(today), 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence.

From 1485 to 1490, Leonardo produced a studies on loads of subjects, including nature, geometry, mechanics, flying machines, municipal construction, canals and architecture.

Between 1490 and 1495 he developed his habit of recording his studies in thoroughly illustrated notebooks. His work covered four main themes: painting, the elements of mechanics, architecture, and human anatomy.

About 1503, Leonardo reportedly began job on the "Mona Lisa." On July 9, 1504, he established notice of the death of his father, Ser Piero. From 1513 to 1516, he worked in Rome, maintaining a workshop and undertaking a range of projects for the Pope.

Leonardo da vinci died on May 2, 1519 at Cloux, France. Legend has it that King Francis was at his side when he died, cradling Leonardo da vinci's head in his arms.

Georgian O'Keeffe Museums

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will present two particular exhibitions for its summer visitors in galleries eight and nine: Jimson Weed Returns from the White House and Georgia O'Keeffe museums: Beyond Our Shores from May 22 - September 20, 2009.

In 2002, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum loaned one of its iconic flower paintings to the White House, Jimson Weed, 1932, as one of a number of paintings selected from a variety of museums for the walls of the dining room in the White House's private quarters.

Jimson Weed was returned recently, and will be on display again for the first time in eight years, along with a number of sketches that O'Keeffe made of this flower. The Museum is providential to house a full range of O'Keeffe's art (1,150 works) from her daring and innovative abstractions of the 1910s and 1920s to her elegant and often provocative investigations of various subject matter, such as architecture, landscapes, flowers, rocks and bones. A selection of works from the everlasting collection will be on display throughout the rest of the Museum.

Award winners for acrylic and oil paintings

Last week, Saturday night a new exhibition, "Just Folks," opened at the Stage Door Gallery, in which featured artist, Anne W. Holland, is displaying her figure paintings in acrylic and oil.

The response from other local artists was overpowering as well, and the gallery boasts a total of 63 works. This exhibition will remain in place through April 26.

With art critic Martine Strohmeyer choosing awards, Holland received a merit award for her acrylic and charcoal piece entitled "Just Friends."

Other merit award winners were: Dianne Appell, photo; Anne Bois, oil; Brenda Clark, acrylic; Gertraud Fendler, photo; Bob Lentz, wood; Muff Mariner, oil; Deborah Remmers, acrylic; Clelia Sheppard, oil; and Nancy West, oil.

Downtown street paintings done on this month

An extended 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival adds new events while retaining the outdoor and arts attractions that build it East Tennessee's annual salute to spring.

The 49th festival events begins with a $125-per-person April 2 gala and patron party; events will continue through this month.

The 60 miles of Dogwood's seven trails and five, a little garden byways open April 8-24. This year's feature trail is Holston Hills; The April 21 "Diva Luncheon" at the Knoxville Museum of Art add a fashion show of wearable art. A new one-mile night race downtown will conclude the traditional festival parade April 24.

And there'll be a little bit of festival after April. The festival event hosts the Knox County Art Educators' Exhibition May 1-29 at the University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St.

Choosing paint colors for house paints

Each specific color will reasonably have their particular compliment when it comes to the location of the house, for example:

Red

Houses painted with shades of red, such as pink, coral, or even rose can have a playful and feminine touch to it, although deeper shades can have a rather theatric effect to it.

Green

Shades of green have a tendency to provide a house an earthy feel, and look attributing to the color green being associated with nature and the environment.

Blue

The color blue has often been connected with a lot of things, including peace, contemplation, coziness, the deep ocean, and the wide open sky. With these in mind, houses colored with shades of blue often depict the same atmosphere, looking like calm and contemplative dwellings.

Update: ebay, friends & dino bones

Stacked Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
10'' x 10"

The third commissioned piece is nearing completion, and I must have an image of that in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I've gotten back a small number of gallery paintings, and I've decided to auction them on ebay. Stacked Bread No. 2 will be the first. There will be three in total. Two paintings at 12 x 12, and one at 10 x 10.

In other news, our friend Robert Deyber just announced the publication of his first hardbound book of select paintings. Production was handled through his gallery, Martin Lawrence, and it's themes, A Language All His Own. Our copy arrived a few days ago, and it's terrific.

Iced Tea

Iced Tea No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

Here is the second of three superior paintings to be auctioned on ebay. It's 12 x 12 on gallery wrapped canvas. Tomorrow I'll post the last piece for auction. The third commission for Chicago is finish, but I'm going to wait until these auction paintings are all up before I post the image. The theme for this one is Family, and I'm truly pleased with how it turned out.

Sliced Bread No.2

Sliced Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

And finally the third eBay paintings for this week, Sliced Bread No.2. This will be the last large painting on canvas to be listed on eBay for a while. The Chicago commission is getting closer to completion, and I plan to get back to several small paintings on hardboard for auction once it's done. I'll also have to get busy produce new work for the galleries.

3rd Completed Commission: Family

Family
oil on canvas
24'' x 24"

Here is the third of four commissioned paintings headed to Chicago . The title or theme of this painting is, "family". I had come up with a number of ideas while contemplating this title, but it was Karen's suggestion of using shoes that finally made the cut. It was an inspired idea. The "fathers" shoe, in back, was issued to me at Lack land Air Force Base on November 17, 1972. They were part of my dress blues, and I still wear them today as my dress shoes.

Secrets of oil painting to make good painter

Technique is not the secret of paintings. It's not using tissues, toothbrushes, sponges, cotton swabs, palette knives, or razor blades along with your artist paint brushes. Nor is it regarding "put a little blue here." All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting actions ... but the real secret of picture making is composition.

Paintings have underlying principles that manage the elements of the picture in order to bring the eye of the viewer into and around the image in an interesting way and to organize the elements into a cohesive whole.

In a painting of a sky, mountain range and valley let's say you want the sky to control. You would make the sky ½ the height of the canvas (3/6ths).

To be sure, an understanding of technique, color theory, form, drawing, perspective and proportion need to be studied and developed but they should serve on an fundamental structure.

Composition is the secret of paintings.