Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Cecilia Beaux portrait of Ernesta
Ernesta, Cecilia Beaux In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Use the download or zoom links below the image on their site. This beautiful and sensitive portrait by the extraordinary American painter Cecilia Beaux is of her niece, Ernesta Drinker. Ernesta was one of Beaux’s favorite subjects, and she painted her numerous…
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Vote like the future of the arts in the US depends on it.
I know those of you in the U.S. are more than weary of this election cycle — and I’m certainly with you on that — but this is too important for me not to say my piece. I’ll leave it to others to tell you how vital this election is in the general sense, and…
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Vladimir Kush (update)
Vladimir Kush is a Russian painter now living in the US, who I first wrote about in 2007. Kush paints in a style derived from Surrealism, but that might more correctly be thought of as Magic Realism. Since my last post, his website has been expanded with additional work, but it has also become more…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carel Fabritius The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius The painting is part of the collection of The Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum site has a page from which you can zoom or download the image from icons on the left. There is also a downloadable version on Wikipedia, which has a page devoted to the painting. There…
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Nick Alm
Nick Alm is a contemporary Swedish painter who studied in Florence and has exhibited in the US as well as Europe. Alm’s primary focus is on figures, often in groups and in compositions that carry a narrative element. Many of the recent works highlighted on his website appear to be part of a series related…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing of Warwick Castle
Warwick Castle: The East Front from the Courtyard, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk; roughly 12 x 22 inches (32 x 57 cm). Link is to the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has the original in its collection. The Getty’s page has both a zoomable and downloadable…