Month: December 2013
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Eye Candy for today: Redfield winter scene
Overlooking the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Redfield was one of the major figures in Pennsylvania Impressionism, painting in and around New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ. Redfield loved to paint in the winter. All of his paintings are highly textural, but his snow scenes in particular are fascinatingly three dimensional — slathered with rills, troughs…
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Self-portraits #8
More non-photographic, non-electronic, non-iPhone “selfies” self-portrayals. (Images above: Giorgio de Chirico, Annibale Carracci, Ferencné Paczka, Edward Hopper, Ilya Repin, Harry Anderson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Merritt Chase)
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Sorolla and America
The Meadows Museum in Dallas, in cooperation with he San Diego Museum of Art and Fundación MAPFRE, has assembled over 100 works by the Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida for an exhibition titled “Sorolla and America“. The exhibition will be on display at the Meadows Museum until April 19, 2014; it then moves to…
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Santa Classics
For his series titled “Santa Classics” photographer Ed Wheeler dresses up as Santa, takes a shot of himself in a certain position under carefully arranged lighting, and then composites the photo into an image from classic art. The Previous/Next buttons aren’t obvious at the lower left of the website home page. There is also a…
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British Library image trove
The British Library has uploaded to Flickr over one million public domain images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books. Starting next year, they will enlist the participation of the web in describing enough of the images to give the automated cataloguing systems a start. There is an article about the project here. The images…
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet's View of Ornans
View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet Painted in the 1850s. Just in case we’re tempted to think the broken color and painterly surfaces of Impressionism sprang from nowhere. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen, then zoom or download arrow.