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  • Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s Tyrolese Interior

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    Tyrolese Interior, John Singer Sargent In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download links under the image. Keenly observed and economically rendered, this beautifully evocative interior, bathed in light from an unseen window and set off with religious artifacts subtly revealed in the shadows, is more in keeping with Sargent’s personal watercolors…

  • John MacDonald

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    Massachusetts artist John MacDonald is an illustrator as well as a painter. His landscapes, both plein air and studio work, are sensitive to the changes in light across the seasons, at times with a soft, tonalist approach, and at other times with more sharply defined edges. He often includes creeks and streams in his compositions,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Primavera

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    La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (unofficial site). Despite another round of snow here on the East Coast of the U.S., today marks…

  • Thomas Stoop

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    Thomas Stoop is a freelance concept artist from the Netherlands who works in a textural brushy style of digital painting, with softly muted palettes that give his compositions an nice sense of atmospheric perspective. The images on his website and ArtStation portfolio are mostly of personal work that showcases his abilities; the ones on ArtStation…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Helen Searle still life

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    Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum; there is a somewhat larger version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but it’s unfortunately not well focused. Careful you don’t get stung reaching for a grape.

  • Matthew Cornell

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    There is something special about twilight; the transitional period between day and night can also be a metaphor for the transition between consciousness and sleep, past and present, the remembered and forgotten. Like the state between waking and sleep, twilight can also be a period in which two different states coexist, the fading but still…