Search results for: “fantin-latour”
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet In the Getty Museum, also on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons (also here). The Getty page offers a downloadble version that is very high resolution (60mb). The Getty version seems unnecessarily dark to me (I haven’t found museums to be particularly reliable when it comes to…
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A few paintings from 1879
I’m constantly astonished and delighted at what a cornucopia of art was the late 19th century. I don’t know of a period in which there was a greater array of disparate styles and movements. Had the preceding centuries not also been bountiful with wonderful work, I’d be tempted to call it a second Renaissance. I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…
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Self-portraits 11
More historic “selfies” in paint and chalk . (images above: Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Henri Fantin-Latour, Simon Bening, Berthe Morisot, Gilbert Stuart, Alice Pike Barney, Edvard Munch)
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Women in the Act of Painting
Women in the Act of Painting is a terrific blog by Philadelphia painter Nancy Bea Miller that contains exactly what it says on the can. Miller features wonderful variety of periods and styles, gives background information on the artist — and where possible, the subject — with links to additional images on the web by…
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Chester Dale Collection on About.com
Last March I wrote about a show called From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection that was on view at the time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The NGA’s page for the exhibit offered a slideshow of 24 images and a PDF of the exhibition brochure, though neither were as…