Category: Ramblings/Ideas

August 12 / Micah Christensen / Art

The Ideal versus the Observed in Nineteenth-Century Painting

[This post was inspired by a conversation I had with the talented and thoughtful painter…

August 7 / Micah Christensen / Art

“One of the un-constestable masters of our epoch.” “All of us will be forgotten, but…

August 5 / Micah Christensen / Art

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c. 1900 Bridgman was a born in Tuskegee, Alabama and died in…

August 4 / Micah Christensen / Art

Francois Joseph Heim (French, 1787-1865) Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon…

July 30 / Micah Christensen / Art

Note: To protect privacy, the names used in this story have been changed. Peter Paul…

July 29 / Micah Christensen / Art

William Adolph Bouguereau. Pieta (1876) Oil on canvas. 230 BY 148CM. Dallas Museum of Fine…

July 23 / Micah Christensen / Art

Via BibliOdyssey is a series of drawings by the Polish painter and illustrator Józef Rapacki.…

William Dyce (English, 1806-1864) Titian’s First Painting, Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Eating in a…

July 10 / Micah Christensen / Art

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. Photograph of the Painter (a. 1910) By the end of his…

July 9 / Micah Christensen / Art

Julien Dupre, French, 1851-1910. The Gleaners (1880). Private Collection. Dupre is one of many artists…