Gardner museum chief repeats reward offer Mar 16, 2008
Stolen were three Rembrandts, including the painter's only seascape, "Storm on the Sea of Galilee; Vermeer's "The Concert," which alone is estimated to have a value of about $100 million; five sketches by Edgar Degas; Edouard Manet's "Chez Tortoni"; and Govaert Flinck's "The Obelisk," which was long thought to have been painted by Rembrandt.Also taken were a bronze beaker from China that dated back to 1200 to 1100 BC and a golden finial in the shape of an eagle that stood atop a glass-encased... (Boston Globe)
A sense of urgency drives Maastricht art fair Mar 15, 2008
1 million seascape, "Haarlemer Meer," dated 1642. Lightning bolts pierce the darkness of a storm raging over the estuary, a rare feature in Van Goyen's oeuvre. (International Herald Tribune)
Getty Displays Two Lorrain Works Feb 13, 2008
Lorrain's seascape sensitively captures the atmospheric effects of Jupiter's approaching storm whose rain extinguished the fires aboard all but four of the intricately detailed vessels. The painter's Liber veritatis notes that the work was commissioned by the prominent prelate Girolamo Farnese upon his return to Rome. (Suite101.com)
Dame Edna shows her artistic side Jan 29, 2008
Humphries's own offering on the site, London on Sea, is a bright seascape he describes as 'a little allegory. Inspired by climate change, he suggested, it shows a sunny, north Australian beach with a gloomy-looking London positioned in the middle distance. (Guardian Unlimited)
INSIDE EUROPE: Europe makes pitch for green leadership Jan 29, 2008
The decision is already changing the European landscape and seascape with wind turbines, solar panels and hydroelectric plants springing up. That is just the start, to judge by the zeal of the European Commission's green young guard. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Oil and water mix well in NB artist's show at library Jan 26, 2008
They punctuate this quiet seascape like damaged exclamation points, a line of demarcation between inky waters and placid, sunlit boats. Bill Selden s paintings are on display through January. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Art teacher brings out talents of area seniors, others Dec 31, 2007
"Classes cost $40 for six weeks, which Frost considers to be a bargain."I also teach in Columbia, and some of those classes are $80 and $90," he said.Button has been so encouraged by his success that he plans to enter his painting of the locomotive in the South Carolina State Fair next year."I don't think I have much talent, but I really like art," Button said. "For my next project, I'm working on something easier, a lighthouse and seascape. That's not so demanding. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Edward Albee: Keeping the threads of life and art separate Nov 13, 2007
On the heels of excellent Broadway revivals of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Seascape" in 2005, the current theater season includes four major New York-area productions of his work. If it's an inadvertent retrospective (he said it happened by chance), it's still an apt one, sampling and in a way blending the earliest and the latest parts of his career. (International Herald Tribune)
Town OKs sign art - with proper permit Nov 13, 2007
The issue gained even more controversy in September after city staff sent warning letters to roughly a dozen businesses, including the Beaches School on Florida Boulevard, which has a painting of a sunset seascape with part of the school's logo on a rear wall facing the woods. But under the new ordinance, all those businesses can apply for a permit. (Florida Times-Union)
Review: Sugimoto reflects on time, history at Asian Art Museum show Oct 16, 2007
The second gallery centers on one of Sugimoto's seascape photographs ... The tension between wholeness and remains echoes thoughout the show, most dramatically where the horizon of the big seascape photograph sits on an eyeline with the top edges of seven hanging scrolls of the Nara period, "Burnt Sutra of the Nigastudo," fire-damaged manuscripts written in platinum and silver ink on indigo-dyed paper, for which Sugimoto designed silk mounts ... In "Morning Sun Illumes the Waves" (1999), he... (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Art project' law could resolve city sign issue Sep 26, 2007
The issue has mushroomed in the last few weeks as 1,000 people signed a petition to support the mural and city staff sent warning letters to roughly a dozen businesses, including the Beaches School on Florida Boulevard which has a painting of a sunset seascape with part of the school's logo on a wall facing the woods. Neptune Beach Mayor Dick Brown said he called Monday's special workshop and meeting because he thought the issue was getting out of hand. (Florida Times-Union)
Exhibits take viewers from techno to mellow Aug 16, 2007
It's an enchanting robotic seascape, but it is not anthropomorphic. In contrast, Andrew Neumann's "Quartet" invests a closed mechanical system with the human quality of self-reflection. (Boston Globe)
McEwan's novella top of the list for Man Booker Aug 8, 2007
The atmospheric story of a young couple's unconsummated wedding night, set in the early Sixties against the gentle Dorset seascape, was among 13 titles to make it on to this year's longlist. The bookmakers William Hill made Nicola Barker's much admired Darkmans an early second favourite with Mohsin Hamid's post September 11 allegory of east-west relations set in New York was third. (Independent)
Brush Strokes Ease The Pain Aug 6, 2007
"Everything, everything you see - a face, a landscape, a seascape - some very basic shapes are involved. Like the palm of your hand. See that square?" she said during a recent class, pointing at her own palm. "How simple is that? Your middle finger? A rectangle.". (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
British Invasion: A massive gift of English paintings adds a new dimension to the Clark Jul 28, 2007
But the Manton Collection greatly augments the Clark's holdings with Turner's Off Ramsgate, an 1840 seascape, and 17 watercolors. They range from picturesque views of British and continental sites to broadly bushed impressions of seas and skies. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
A vision of beauty and light Jul 5, 2007
It's difficult to see in the latest piece in the show, for example, Frederick Waugh's energized, circa 1930s seascape "Silver Light," but it surfaces in the academic technical rigor of Waugh's 1890 "Ladies Having Tea," which also exhibits Impressionist influence in the depiction of rituals of daily urban life and Oriental subject matter. In Waugh's "Peasant Landscape" of 1883, with three women tilling cabbages in the countryside, the connection is evident. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Artist shares love of painting, God with community May 19, 2007
(Times photo/Dayne Logan) Leavenworth resident Geri Urban poses with one of her seascape paintings. Urban recently opened a new art studio at 213 Fifth Street. (Leavenworth Times, KS)
Artists with the N.H. Association for the Blind exhibit work at library May 12, 2007
Another painting is awash in colors from pale rose to red, yet it is a seascape with a small boat with two people on it. In the background could be the coast of New Hampshire or Maine, but you know it's New England. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Record 18,000 get naked for art photos in Mexico May 7, 2007
At one point, all 18,000 volunteers lay on the ground, forming a beige seascape. For another shot, they hunched over in a fetal position. (AZCentral -- News)
Library tracks artistic career of Wolf Apr 12, 2007
The exhibit includes other paintings in brilliant colors like a purple and green seascape or a tidepool scene and bold studies of seabirds. The paintings come from the collections of Bunes and Nottestad. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
Color us offended Apr 8, 2007
There s a line of mountain tops in the background that look more like the teeth of a saw blade the Tetons, maybe and a couple of scribbled pines that are the artistic equivalent of seagulls drawn like a rounded M on a child s seascape. LeDonne couldn t be reached, so his real intentions are unknown. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Artist donates painting to city Apr 3, 2007
A seascape Stan Edwards, an Illinois artist whose work has been featured in the Smithsonian Art Museum, has offered to donate to the Mayor s Art Council ... Edwards has sent a seascape he s already completed, with a hazy cyan sky, an azure sea and a cubist-looking dune made with an acrylic mixed medium on canvas. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
'City Lights' shine in the country Mar 31, 2007
Several of the artists, including John Deecken, included seascape renderings of the Fayerweather Lighthouse while Doris Giammatteo's four watercolors focused on the historic side of the city and included soft scenes of the Fayerweather Yacht Club, The Crescent Building, the Perry Memorial Arch and the Fairfield County Courthouse. Bridgeport artist Suzanne Kashmir captures local scenes in egg tempura. (Fairfield Minuteman, CT)
Images from the edge Mar 27, 2007
This image is as luminous a seascape as I've seen. Nearby, one of Smith's panoramas - made in 1985 using a custom-built view camera - records intricate details on the wall behind a bar in Louisiana. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Your 20 hidden tourist gems Mar 24, 2007
On a summer's evening, you can sit with your back against the old smelter's chimney and watch the gulls race across the seascape. The gentle warm breeze in your face is in sharp contrast to the angry white surf on the rocks below. (BBC News -- UK)
Unknown Monet: and best left that way Mar 14, 2007
Every scrap of paper, Billecocq writes, no matter how small was drawn upon by Monet, with country scenes, tiny seascapes and fishermen ... And so what is there for the visitor for whom a staccato little seascape, albeit the only known pen-and-ink drawing that Monet did, still looks like little more than a scratchy little scribble. (Times Online)
Monet in Normandy’ is great, gorgeous escape Mar 9, 2007
The artist s signature windswept brush strokes are apparent in The Cliff Walk, Pourville, an 1882 seascape with two female figures. The exhibit begins with one of Monet s single most important seascapes in the first decade of his career, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, painted in 1867 ... The Pointe de la Hve at Low Tide, painted at age 24, is one of two seascapes that earned Monet critical acclaim. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Pet Spa opens in Orange Beach Feb 24, 2007
Where wildlife once roamed, pampered pets can get luxury treatment at Seascape Pet Spa, one of the newest shops at the shopping center on Canal Road. Owner Cindy Kennedy has been in the pet grooming industry for years. (Pensacola News Journal)
A new trend at Impressionist and Modern art auctions Feb 10, 2007
Two lots down, a seascape in the idiosyncratic figural style that Emil Nolde cultivated in the 1930s soared to 960,000. The picture is admirable, but a decade ago it would have been felt to be retardataire it sends back echoes of Courbet's manner a century earlier. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Glassy-eyed artist shines Feb 3, 2007
Others are like pictures, especially seascapes with Melissakis' favorite sea horses or sea urchins, plant life, shells and ocean currents in textures of glass ... The result is a piece like the upright, roughly 16-by-13-inch seascape she "slumped," or gave a graceful S-shaped curve. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
'It's just so tacky' Jan 31, 2007
"Those living inside this monstrosity may praise it; they have the good fortune of looking out of it at the delightful seascape," wrote the trust's chairman, Anthony Hontoir, "whilst we who walk along the promenade . . . must contemplate the bottle bank's ugliness, which is unlikely to improve as the years pass by.". Not even its architects, Stride Treglown Davies, imagined that Esplanade House would quietly blend in. (Guardian Unlimited)
DCCC exhibition showcases work of North Carolina artists Jan 19, 2007
"Two artists in the exhibition also include 's own Harold and Leslie Frontz. The husband and wife specialize in oil and watercolor paintings."This is really exciting," Leslie Frontz said. "I'm just happy to be selected. "Mrs. Frontz is currently an art teacher at DCCC, a former art teacher at Southwest Elementary School and was recognized in "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in American Art. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
A vision fulfilled at harbor's edge Dec 1, 2006
This room slopes to frame a very different seascape. Its glass wall points downward, framing a view of nothing but waves. (Boston Globe)
Whistler painting fetches $1M Dec 1, 2006
07:01 AMASSOCIATED PRESSDETROIT The Detroit Institute of Arts has paid $1 million for a seascape by the 19th century American painter James McNeill Whistler. The museum outbid about 10 other bidders for the seven- by 10-inch painting "Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers" at a July 7 auction. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Oregon Coast Gourmet Fest will be on Saturday Nov 14, 2006
Musicians include Seascape, a local string quartet; and Triadante, a local trio with a modern folk-style sound. Advertisement. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Austria returns Munch painting to Mahlers Nov 10, 2006
The painting, which shows the moon reflecting off a calm sea before a rocky beach and is sometimes referred to as "Seascape With Moon," has been hanging since 1940 in the Austrian Gallery, known as the Belvedere, in Vienna. The Austrian government had rejected all previous claims to the painting, most recently in 1999, on the ground that the Belvedere had legitimate title to it. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
FBI may use billboards in art hunt Nov 4, 2006
The stolen artwork includes a Vermeer; three Rembrandts, including his only seascape; five Degas drawings; and a Manet. Cathy Deely, a spokeswoman for the museum, declined to comment on the ongoing investigation or the possibility of a billboard campaign. (Boston Globe)
Sotheby's May Pass $1B Mark With Nov. Sales Oct 24, 2006
An impressionist still life of fruit by Paul Cezanne could fetch up to 35 million at another sale Nov. 7, while a Claude Monet seascape work could bring up to 20 million at the same event. Art experts say collectors are eager to grab Bacon's six-foot tall painting and other hard-to-find works in the prized Vanthournout Collection, including pieces by Piero Manzoni, Josef Albers and sculptor Gerhard Richter. (New York Post -- Business)
How does Jersey City itself impact art? Painter, sculptor, and others speak on impact Oct 21, 2006
There's the impressionist exuberance of Van Vorst Park in one corner and the vibrant seascape of Black Magic, a depiction of a boat docked in the Liberty Marina. "I would take walks around the neighborhood and I started seeing these beautiful landscapes that I wanted to paint," said Filipova. (West New York Reporter, NJ)
Kiefer's 'Heaven' Oct 21, 2006
The process remains foremost in the viewer's mind, the seascape association inadvertent. In Kiefer's work, imagery at almost cinematic scale predominates, and we have to work our way to relishing his handling of materials, which has all the authority of Serra's. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Free admission day launches 3-month run of 'blockbuster' Monet show Oct 13, 2006
But loan they did, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which sent Monet's 1867 "Garden at Sainte-Adresse," the single most important seascape from the first decade of the artist's career. "It's considered by many to be the earliest masterpiece of impressionism," Steel said. (Herald Sun)
S. Walton beaches Oct 13, 2006
This is, in many ways, the best time of year to pay a visit to the 14 communities of Beaches of South Walton which stretch east from Seascape to Inlet along 26 miles of Florida Gulf Coast edged by protected dunes covered in sea oats and scrub ... To reach Sandestin, Miramar Beach or Seascape, continue west on U.S. 98. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Artist's exhibit is ongoing at college Oct 6, 2006
In addition to landscape, seascape and still life painting, this year's exhibit will include cast bronze figurative sculpture and mixed media works. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Ripton helps lead Myhelan Oct 6, 2006
Other interesting pieces in the exhibit include Cameau Rameau s seascape, which was painted only with the edge of a razor blade, as well as various metal sculptures, which were created by seven or eight artisans. Painter Frantz Zephirin, who describes himself as a historic animalist, has beautiful works on display, which show various animals amid a mind-bending, swirly blue and green water-hued background. (Madison Eagle, NJ)
Creating a mural Oct 6, 2006
The top is a seascape, showing Lake Michigan and the lighthouse. The mural was funded by donations to the library and was not part of the renovation budget. (Cadillac News, MI)
Mint Museum's exhibit a 'stroke of genius' Oct 4, 2006
"Ground Swell" is a seascape, not one of Hopper's well-known views of urban life with red brick buildings and empty streets. But this is still Hopper. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Entertainment)
Sonar may have found sunken WWII sub Oct 3, 2006
"It's a rocky seascape," said Art Wright, survey manager for Williamson. "We went over the areas several times to differentiate between rock and ship and look at things from three to four different aspects.". (Anchorage Daily News)
More of this story Sep 28, 2006
From Success Lake and Pismo Beach to Italy and other parts of Europe, Bob Goetting captures the character of still life, landscapes and seascapes, layer by layer ... Inspiration for one of his paintings, ortofino, an Italian seascape, came from an Italian cook book. (Porterville Recorder, CA)
Paul Greenberg: The art of stopping time Aug 30, 2006
If you happen to spot Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Galilee," the only seascape the master ever painted, or the inexpressibly beautiful "The Concert" by Vermeer, give the Gardner Museum a call. Or the FBI. There's a $5 million reward for information leading to the return of the missing works in good condition. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Sandra Blow — abstract artist Aug 24, 2006
Nature s textures and dynamics were always an influence for Blow, and, painting in Cornwall in 1957-58, and again when she returned there to live in 1994, she ensured that the strength of her pictures lived up to the vigour of the landscape or seascape around them. Her Cornish pictures took on a fresh quality of light together with engagingly oblique references to sand and sea. (TimesOnline)
Computer helps piece together ceramic scenes Aug 13, 2006
Recent projects include a tile seascape embedded in a shower stall wall and a 60-foot-by-20-foot mural of a sea turtle on a building exterior. Simmons said he is riding a trend in which consumers want something besides mass-produced ornamentation for their homes. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
At small Paris auctions, some extraordinary works Jul 29, 2006
In a session conducted by Patrick Deburaux on June 9, a seascape signed by Claude-Joseph Vernet and dated 1786 could be had for just over 62,000, and a graceful portrait of a young woman reading, titled "Philosophie," which was signed by Louis-Jean-Fran ... This is an etched reproduction of the "Vernet studio" seascape. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A stylish return to the '70s. Jul 18, 2006
company called Seascape, producing lamp shades sporting wood veneer. Initially, the shades had a loyal but limited following. (AZCentral -- Home)
Livingston County auction draws bidders from around the globe Jul 8, 2006
"He's one of the most important artists of the late 19th century and this is a significant little seascape he painted" says Cottone. The painting sold for $910,000, that is $760 thousand dollars above the estimate. (WROCTV.com, NY)
Brussels, Boring? Jun 25, 2006
Who says Brussels is boring. Brussels: Bustling bistros, fanciful art and far from boring. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Change in mood erodes prices Jun 24, 2006
Epitomising the trend was a seascape by Penleigh Boyd that came up at last week's Deutscher-Menzies sale - The Fairy Bower, Manly at $40,800. Excluding buyer's premium, the hammer price of $34,000 on this work looks fair enough, certainly comfortably in line with the auctioneer's estimate of $30,000 to $40,000. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Art House offers kids creative summer camp Jun 18, 2006
The exhibit, "Colors From the Atlantic," features the Sanford artist's latest body of seascape paintings. Kasun, who moved to Orlando from Ohio in 2000, draws inspiration from the Florida coastline. (Orlando Sentinel -- News)
Turner's treasure set to leave the UK Jun 4, 2006
His purchases included $95m for Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar au Chat, $5m for a Monet seascape and $2. 5m for a Chagall. (Guardian Unlimited)
Art of glass, eye to match Jun 3, 2006
As this column suggested, the John Peter Russell seascape Les Alpes Maritimes, Antibes made its $6000 to $10,000 estimate look like a misprint, selling for $66,000. Russell, of course, spent most of his life in France, working with figures like Monet and Rodin. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Alone on the waterfront in South Boston, the unfinished ICA is a bold presence May 28, 2006
The building calibrates the view; it serves it up in small doses," she says. She thinks looking at the whole harbor all the time might be boring. The lenticular wall would unfold the view gradually. The building would not be passive, but would actively respond to the view.The ICA's leaders killed the lenticular wall, not for reasons of cost but because they couldn't resist opening up the whole seascape panorama at once. But the lenticular wall was basic to the architectural concept. The... (Boston Globe -- Living)
'History's' treasures reveal the Japanese (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) May 27, 2006
Finally, he comes full circle with a seascape -- the Caribbean Sea in Jamaica, what he calls his image of "eternity." With Mr. Sugimoto's exploring of "eternity to eternity" -- reminiscent of "from dust to dust" from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer -- he shows us exquisitely beautiful East Asian and Japanese art objects. An early Jomon period clay figure (ca. (Washington Times)
'Drowsy Chaperone' is sleeper hit with Tonys, getting 13 nods May 18, 2006
and Seascape - is a Center Stage associate artist. Although the Tony Administration Committee added a new category this year, "Best Recreation of a Leading Role" - intended to recognize an actor who replaces the original performer in a long-running production - there were no nominations in this category. (SunSpot.net)
Rare glimpse of masterpiece headed for auction block May 13, 2006
Tiller joined collectors, curators and gallery owners in ogling the dramatic Arctic seascape painting and debating its meaning and imagery. The painting, which measures 1. (Toronto Star -- Life)
Museum mystery comes to life May 12, 2006
" Experts on the Dutch master are consulted, including the professor Celeste Brusati; Tracy Chevalier, the author of the Vermeer novel ''Girl With a Pearl Earring"; and Susan Vreeland, who wrote ''Girl in Hyacinth Blue," a fine speculative historical novel that traced the path of a fictitious Vermeer painting across time.According to a swift and exhaustive profile Dan Kennedy wrote for the Boston Phoenix in 1997, the biggest loss was Rembrandt's ''The Storm in the Sea of Galilee," the painter's... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Celeste Fichter: 84 Days without a Fish May 10, 2006
Sugar packets, vacation snapshots, flashlights and empty frames are transformed and installed relative to an imagined horizon line that runs the length of the gallery, creating a seascape of floating narratives. In 84 days without a fish, matchsticks walk gangplanks to their watery deaths, two Canadian coins imprinted with sailboats pass in the night, CNNs Wolf Blitzer is the anchor lying on the sea floor and the text of Old Man and The Sea, methodically rewritten by hand on long... (AbsoluteArts.com)
