Archives: painting

A really close look at ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ – really close

March 7, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, fiction, journalism.

The folks at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Holland, where the painting resides are taking a really close look these days. They have called in experts from around the world and marshaled all of the technology and machinery they can muster to look as closely — non-invasively — at the painting as they can.

Tags: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Arnoldus Andries des Tomb, Dutch masters, Eye of the Beholder, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, Laura Snyder, Leonardo da Vinci, Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, Mona Lisa, New York Times, painting, Tracy Chevalier

Testing the palette: One subject, three paintings

February 7, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: watercolor.

Painting a subject more than one, especially within a short span of time, is not my usual thing.

But this was different. I wanted to test out three color approaches, and I wanted to do it with a landscape that would not be too difficult to render. So here’s the result:

Tags: art, Cades Cove, cool colors, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Kuretake watercolors, painting, warm colors, watercolor

Artist Daniel Moore announces latest national championship painting

February 7, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: First Amendment, sports.

Moore discovered a gold mine for his artwork in 1979 when he produced “The Goal Line Stand,” a photo-realistic oil painting of the moments when Alabama prevented Penn State from scoring in the Sugar Bowl.

Tags: art, Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant museum, Daniel Moore, First Amendment, Goal Line Stand, painting, Penn State, sports, Sugar Bowl, University of Alabama, watercolor

Daniel Moore – Artist, journalist . . . or both?

May 18, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | 1 Comment | Filed in: First Amendment, law.

The University of Alabama, where I taught for 25 years, has sued artist Daniel Moore saying that Moore’s paintings, many of which depicted memorable moments in Crimson Tide football history, violate the University’s trademark protections. Moore has responded with a suit against the University saying it is interferring with his business. Moore also makes a First Amendment claim. He says that what he does — observing a game, executing a painting, making prints and selling them — is no different from what a photojournalist for a newspaper does. The University, he says, does not charge the newspaper with trademark violations when it publishes pictures of the football game and sells its newspapers to the public. So why should it charge him? Why, indeed?

Tags: art, Daniel Moore, First Amendment, painting, Rick Rush, Tiger Woods, University of Alabama, watercolor