Sunday, November 23, 2025

 Ogata Gekkō
(1859- 1920)
 

Ogata Gekkō was a Japanese artist best known as a painter and a designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. He was self-taught in art, won numerous national and international prizes, and was one of the earliest Japanese artists to win an international audience. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogata_Gekkō

Woman in front of Setting Sun
circa 1899
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
23.8 x 33 cm
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, United States
https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2003.8.1737/

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Hans Toma
(1839- 1924)
 
Hans Thoma was a German painter. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Thoma




Wondrous Birds
1892
Oil on cardboard
92 x 74 cm
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/wondrous-birds/

Friday, November 21, 2025

Christoffel Puytlinck
(1640 - 1679)
 

Christoffel Puytlinck, was a painter from Roermond (present-day Netherlands). He painted still lifes, chiefly game pieces and live and dead fowl. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_Puytlinck


Hoenderhof (poultry yard)
1655-1682
Oil on panel
42 x 58 cm.
Museum Bredius, The Hague, Netherlands
https://museumbredius.nl/en/collection/hoenderhof/


<i>The poultry is placed in an Italian environment (Puytlinck made a trip to Rome). The sculpturing of the marbles is of a mock-antique character.</I>

Thursday, November 20, 2025

George Stubbs
(1724-1806)
 

George Stubbs ARA was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such as horses, dogs and lions), perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. He enjoyed royal patronage. His painting Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery, London. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stubbs

Greenland Falcon
1780
beeswax on panel
81.3 x 99.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21168

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

 John Constable
(1776 - 1837)
 

John Constable RA was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable

Wivenhoe Park
1816
Oil on canvas
6.1 × 101.2  cm.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1147-wivenhoe-park-essex

 

The painting was commissioned by the owner of Wivenhoe Park, Major General Francis Slater Rebow, who was among the artist's first patrons, being a close friend of the artist's father, Golding Constable. Wivenhoe Park is 200 acres (81 ha) of parkland, purchased by the Rebow family before 1734. Slater-Rebow commissioned several paintings from Constable, including a portrait of the general's seven-year-old daughter in 1812. She also figures in this painting, in a donkey cart to the left. This painting, finished in September 1816, earned the artist enough money to allow him to marry his long-time love, Mary Bicknell. They married in October 1816.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wivenhoe_Park_(painting)

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Japs Antido
B. 1982

John Paul Antido or also known as JAPS is a Filipino artist who took up bachelor's in Fine Arts and majored in Painting from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He was born in Antipolo City and is still a resident enjoying the cold weather and mountainous scenery of his childhood home.
Japs' works have been shown to audiences in Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, and Denmark. He is known for mixing traditional subjects with a modern style in his works. While having a festive scenery, he shows intricate traditional garments and the native flair of Filipinos combined with modern elements. Japs uses the impasto technique of laying thick paint with textured brushstrokes and with the use of bright and lively colors to depict how Filipinos celebrate occasions.


https://www.instagram.com/japsantido/

Of Birds and Nests
2015
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 91.4 cm
Center for Art, New Ventures & Sustainable Development (CANVAS), Quezon City, Philippines

Monday, November 17, 2025

 Rita Angus
(1908 - 1970) 
 

Henrietta Catherine Angus known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, is regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and watercolour, and became known for her portraits and landscapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Angus

Flight
1969
Oil on hardboard
60.7 × 60.2 cm
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43394?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

 

In the early 1960s, Rita Angus was horrified to hear that thousands of graves would be shifted from Wellington’s Bolton Street Cemetery to make way for a new urban motorway. Angus was keenly aware of her Anglo-Scottish heritage and New Zealand’s 19th-century history, and saw both reflected in the colonial cemetery.
Angus visited the site regularly before and during the demolition, making careful records of specific headstones and inscriptions. A lifelong pacifist, she was drawn to a carved stone dove among the piled-up headstones at the demolition site. Angus sketched the dove in pencil, before including it in this work - her last completed painting.

 Ogata Gekkō (1859- 1920)   Ogata Gekkō was a Japanese artist best known as a painter and a designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. He was sel...