Month: January 2016
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Medea
Medea, Frederick Sandys Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museum. The painting was kept from public view, though accepted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1868, because it was thought to be unacceptably in bad taste, largely due to the…
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Andrei Schilder
Andrei Nikolaievich Schilder, a Russian landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a student of landscape master Ivan Shishkin — and it shows. Like his teacher, Schilder’s dense forests and pastoral fields are rich with texture, and conveyed with a deft handling of value and contrasts of form. Also in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Titian pen drawing
Trees Near a Pool of Water, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) Pen and brown ink, roughly 8×10″ (21x24cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Harvard Art Museums, which also has a zoomable image — as well as a version here. 16th century Venetian Master Tiziano Vecellio, commonly known as Titian,…
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Abbey Ryan (update)
I first wrote about Philadelphia based painter Abbey Ryan back in 2007. She was a early adopter of the “painting-a-day” regimen and the painter/blogger approach to selling directly to individuals and collectors through the internet, bypassing the traditional gallery system. Ryan studied oil painting with David Leffel at the Art Students League in New York,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Metsu’s Woman Reading a Letter
Woman Reading a Letter, Gabriel Metsu Link is to a version on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. This painting of a woman reading a letter, laced with symbolism and implied narrative, was intended as a “pendant” to Man Writing a Letter (the two paintings were meant to hang together…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Harpignies’ View of Moulins
A View of Moulins, Henri-Joseph Harpignies In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image on their site. At once straightforward and poetic, this view of a town in central France by the Barbizon painter is a beautiful example of the evocative power of watercolor. Harpignies combines solid draftsmanship,…