Category: Quick Hits

Quick Hit: Reclining Woman

By J Walters on 04/22/2019 • ( Leave a comment )

I love the cubist era but somehow I missed knowing enough about Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955) who painted Reclining Woman in 1922.

Quick Hits: Fabergé for Easter

By J Walters on 04/18/2019 • ( 1 Comment )

A Fabergé egg is an exquisite jewel made by the Russian House of Fabergé from 1885 to 1917. Most were miniature eggs popular as gifts at Easter, worn on a neck chain (above). The most famous eggs were larger, made for Alexander III and Nicholas II, often referred […]

Quick Hits: Easter Inspiration

By J Walters on 04/15/2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Easter inspiration arrives in many forms, including these glazed porcelain eggs from Nashville-based Becca Jane Koehler.

Quick Hits: Painting Nature

By J Walters on 04/12/2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Madrid-based industrial designer and photographer Elena Nuez is still painting leaves (see previous Art Junkie Post here)

Quick Hits: Understory

By J Walters on 04/11/2019 • ( 3 Comments )

Kelowna artist Jane Everett explores the intersection of the natural and man-made worlds in Understory, an installation that evokes the experience of standing among the forests of the British Columbia interior.

Quick Hits: Hand Coloured Flowers

By J Walters on 04/08/2019 • ( 3 Comments )

The always interesting Public Domain Review features these stunning floral images by Ogawa Kazumasa, a Japanese photographer, printer, and publisher known for his pioneering work in photomechanical printing in the 1890s. The exquisite hand-coloured flower collotypes were featured in the 1896 book Some Japanese Flowers (a 2013 reprint […]