Search results for: “manet”
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ portrait of Manet
Edouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on the image on the Met’s page for a zoomable version or use the download arrow. I remember being struck by seeing this drawing in one of the volumes of the old Time Life Library of Art (The World of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Manet still life
Still Life with Melon and Peaches, Edouard Manet A summer table for you on Manet’s birthday. Manet is noted as a figurative painter, and his still life subjects, I think, often get less attention than they deserve. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. There is a good sized image on Wikipedia.
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A few paintings from 1880
The late 19th century is one of my favorite periods for art. Not only were a great many of my favorite artists active in that time but I’m constantly discovering artists from the period who are wonderful and new to me. Wikimedia Commons, that cornucopia of images provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, has a number…
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Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (pronunciation here) is one of the least well known of the original Impressionist painters. She is often grouped with American painter Mary Cassatt as one of the two “female Impressionists”. It is a comparison that makes sense, though, in that both painters brought intimate domestic scenes into the Impressionist canon, as well as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Brueghel still life
Pomegranates and Other Fruit in a Landscape, Abraham Brueghel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom links under their image. This 17th century still life is an example of how tenuous the attribution of historic art can be. Over time, it has been ascribed to Diego Velázquez, Giuseppe Ruoppoli, and Giovanni…
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Charles-François Daubigny
Contrary to the notion you might get from some sources, French Impressionism did not spring full-blown from the brushes of Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Bazille the moment they met in Charles Gleyre’s atelier in the 1860’s. Not only did the fully realized style we know as Impressionism take time to develop among the artists themselves,…