Tag Archives: hendrick avercamp

big bang: going dutch on stretched canvas

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dave

Le Big Bang special vol.2 is a canvas stretcher of x-special buy proportions: Winsor & Newton artist canvas 11 oz: 14 X 18 inch…$1.79 12 x 16 inch…$1.79 16 X 20 inch…$1.99 12 x 24 inch…$1.99 100% first quality. Saturday … Continue reading →

bundle up

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Winter is upon us. Each adapt in their own manner for better or worse. … from Jonathan Jones: Bruegel’s paintings are not just prophecies. They are recipes of adaptation, illustrating new ways to live with the cold: how to inhabit … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged aaron fogel, abraham hondius, barend cornelius koekkoek, E.E. Cummings, hendrick avercamp, John Evelyn, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Paul Kane, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Thomas Rowlandson | Leave a comment

skating for the stars

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Kitsch was the dominant theme behind French Salon painting and English Victorian art; the heavier it was buttered onto canvas the better. Sentimental decoration and dreary bourgeois values sparked the anxiety inducing fear of kitsch as one of the central … Continue reading →