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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-10-05 08:24:00

Incredible light and detail in this oil painting...
Hans Gude, Fjordlandskap fra Balestrand, 1848
(Norway Nasjonalmuseet)
#Art #Painting #Landscape

Late summer morning in a fjord landscape with a small settlement surrounded by rocks and small golden fields reaching down the hill until the shore line. Two children are standing in the shade on a small path leading between the wooden houses, roofs covered with grass and moss. Massive mountain peaks with near vertical slopes in the background. A large glacier on one of them. Bright hazy day with light reflecting on individual blades of grass, leaves, presumably still covered in dew.
@smashtie@mas.to
2025-10-05 12:55:59

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Mother, by Diego José Aznar Remón Composed in muted tones, with momentary flashes of pink, this portrait of the artist's wife and son shows them on an unkempt bed, the exhausted mother asleep, the baby awake and looking directly at the viewer. It is a moment of gorgeous intimacy.
The Echo - Self-Portrait, by Pippa Hale-Lynch This self-portrait has the quality of a doubly exposed photograph, or one that has slipped and smudged in the process of development. Your eye slides over the detail, unable to lock on. Her face is pale, but with flushed cheeks, against a black background. The painting explores themes of solitude and grief stemming from the loss of her mother.
Ukrainian Girl, by Nelson Hernandez A female figure with her back to the viewer stands at a window, through which shines a wintry light illuminating individual strands of her light blonde hair. Chilean artist Nelson Hernandez's spectral portrait of his Ukrainian friend, Kseniia, captures a brief moment in time: 'I was moved by her stillness as she gazed out the window. Suddenly, the drawing in her hoodie evoked in me a scene of war, a metaphor of her past and the burden she carries.'
Portrait of a Sculptor, by Dide Blasting out bright red, the surface of Dide's portrait of the sculptor Laurence Edwards seems alive with a kinetic, electric energy. The sculpture sits in a brightly patterned armchair, looking directly at the viewer, with legs crossed and grubby boots prominent. It explores 'the messy plaster-splattered existence of artists in their studios'.
@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-08-21 13:20:28

Maybe it’s the craziness of the world, but I’ve been dreaming of still life painting. I keep imagining spending my days arranging and rearranging small objects on a tabletop, then drawing or painting them. Nothing much: cups and bottles, flowers and fruit. Just the idea of it calms and brings me joy.
#Art #Painting

Ways of Seeing: Still Life
The still life flower paintings of Australian artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963) along with excerpts of Sal Randolph's book The Uses of Art.

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-08-26 14:13:17

I bet you didn't know that the last shot in the #movie #DieHard2 was a #matte #painting did you? I didn't.

ILM matte artist Yusei Uesugi paints the large runway scene in the pull-out shot that fades to credits at the end of Die Hard 2.