The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, will display an exhibition "Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales," from January 30 to April 30 .The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and National Museum Wales . The exhibition features a collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century paintings and works on paper from National Museum Wales, which has a globally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art assembled chiefly between 1908 and 1923 by Welsh sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies.


                     Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "La Parisienne" from the National Museum of Wales

The works in the display have been drawn solely from the collection of the Davies sisters, who enthusiastically gathered works that reflected the chief movements of the time. They collected during a vital moment in the history of art, when European paintings were undergoing a revolution in style, subject and technique.

The exhibition includes more than 50 works - majority of which have never been disclosed in the United States .This includes masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honore Daumier, Augustus John, Edouard Manet, Jean-Francois Millet, J.M.W. Turner, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.

"Turner to Cezanne" depicts  the evolution of early Modern art, commencing with examples of dramatic romanticism exemplified by Turner through the expressionist Post-Impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh. The period of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries is depicted by the masterworks of Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism painters.

Labels: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Painters, Turner tio Cezanne

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The art gallery named "The Gallery" at Waldorf College,Iowa,USA, will re-open on Jan. 15 from 7-9 p.m. in its new Campus Center location, the former faculty lounge. Previously the Gallery was located in the Atrium.

The inaugural exhibit will feature abstract paintings on paper as well as canvas by Tracy Sweet, who will also deliver a brief gallery talk during the re-opening. The art exhibition is free and open to the public.

Tracy Sweet started painting abstracts 10 years back after a life span of creating landscapes in watercolor.He conveyed that his abstracts are the outcome of taking his own advice to his watercolor students to "loosen up."

He is a native of Madison, Wiscosin and attended Iowa State College (presently Iowa State University) and the University of Iowa. He has been painting ever since his childhood and is primarily a self-taught artist.

Labels: Art Gallery, Tracy Sweet, Watercolor

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Fable III developer Lionhead Studios has been unexpectedly calm about the third installment it plans on launching late 2010 (and teasing in February), but if  thought painting is your object, today is your day.

Lionhead released a stunning and dazzling wallpaper painting of beautiful Albion today comprehensive with its brilliant rolling hills, lush forest, tall mountains, and a general soft tone to the complete thing.

The wallpaper is obtainable for download in three diverse dimensions from the Fable Blog, and looks pretty nice once applied as wallpaper

Labels: Fable III: The Albion Desktop work of art, Painting

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