Month: August 2013
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck's Marchesa Balbi
Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. I’m not always fond of Van Dyck’s more stylized poses, but here, in a reserved, classical portrait of a member of the Geonese aristocracy, Van…
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Maja Wronska
Maja Wronska is, I think, a Polish architecture student. I’m a little uncertain in that she doesn’t appear to have a dedicated website — relying instead on a deviantART gallery and a Tumblog for her web presence, neither of which have much in the way of a bio. She posts on both of them, however,…
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Debussy Google Doodle
The Google homepage today features a beautifully elegant, and deceptively simple, animated Google Doodle in honor of the 151st anniversary of the birth of French composer Achille-Claude Debussy. The piece is, naturally enough, set to Debussy’s most celebrated work, Clair de lune (“Moonlight”). After today, look for it on this page of Google Doodles. [Suggestion…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life
Still Life with Oranges, Jars and Boxes of Sweets, Louis Meléndez The original is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. View the painting in high resolution on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project, or on Wikimedia Commons (large version here, 3.3mb). A superbly composed and painted tour-de-force of still life from the Spanish master.…
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Santiago Rusiñol
For a long time, my only impression of Santiago Rusiñol was of the painting Interior of a Café (images above, second down), which is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I liked the painting, with its odd emotional and visual tone and interesting use of value relationahips, but I didn’t follow up on the artist…
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Eye Candy for Today: Metcalf nocturne
May Night, Willard Metcalf There is an article on Wikipedia that gives background on the painting. The original is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.