Painting by Tissot
I love it when I visit a museum and discover a new painting. I found this painting, The Proposal, by James Tissot (1836 - 1902) during my last visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art.…
Category: Art Museums
Next YouTube video, Jacob van Ruisdael
I enjoyed preparing my last video so much, I am charged-up to do another. In my last video about Jan van Goyen, I mentioned his fellow Dutch Golden Ager, van Ruisdael. I've got a lot…
Cleveland Art museum visit
Why is a visit to the art museum blog-worthy? After all, my near-weekly museum visits are a longstanding habit. The headline is that this is my first visit to the Cleveland Art museum since the…
Cleveland’s van Goyen
My next video about painter's paintings is on van Goyen's painting titled View of Emmerich in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Van Goyen is another artist from the Dutch Golden Age. He is a contemporary…
J. L. David’s Cupid and Psyche
Jacques-Louis David is one of my favorite artists. David's reputation was cemented for me the first time I visited the Louvre. David made a career revitalizing well-known stories and allegories. From the beginning of his career, David…
David Teniers video
I completed a new video about the great Flemish artist, David Teniers. I was inspired to create the video by my memory of the Cleveland art museum's painting by Teniers. Because of Covid, I still…
Review: Eyewitness Views
The Cleveland Museums of Art's Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the best show I've seen at the museum since I started my near-weekly visits six years ago. As good as the show…