Month: May 2014
-
Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla’s Under the Awning
Under the awning, on the Beach at Zarauz, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Original is in the Museo Sorolla. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Headed for the beach? Be sure to dress appropriately.
-
Elizabeth Shippen Green (update)
I will admit that I’ve gotten a bit spoiled by the general tendency of the web to increasingly provide wonderful art images. If there is an artist whose work was not very accessible five or six years ago, chances are good that more resources are available now, or will be as time goes on. (Hopefully…
-
Eye Candy for today: Hassam’s peach blossoms
Peach Blossoms—Villers-le-Bel, Childe Hassam In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met’s collection pages have changed somewhat; the controls to zoom and download are now available directly under the image. A beautiful, direct and deceptively simple painting by one of the foremost of the artists known as American Impressionists.
-
Some thoughts on eyes in early Renaissance portraits
This started out as just an Eye Candy post on Rogier van der Wyden’s beautiful Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet (alternately known as Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress, or simply Portrait of a Young Woman), shown above, top, with detail. In the course of preparing the images for the post, I once…
-
MicroVisions 2014
MicroVisions is a yearly event in which established illustrators pay it forward by contributing small original artworks to be auctioned off on eBay, with proceeds to benefit the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Fund. This year’s auction is in progress, and features some wonderful pieces. Participants include Richard Anderson, Steve Belledin, Nicolas Delort, Eric Fortune,…
-
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…