Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: dramatic composition by Friedrich Preller the Elder
Hünengrab auf Rügen (Megaithic Tomb on Rügen), Friedrich Preller the Elder; oil on canvas, 44 x 57 inches ( 112 x 146 cm), in the collection of the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, Germany. The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons with a link to the large image. In this wonderfully dramatic painting…
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Eye Candy for Today, Ingres group portrait graphite drawing
The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite, 12 x 9 ” (30 x 22 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, which has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the file. Here we have another of French painter Ingres’ delicate graphite drawings, in which…
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The Great Wave, Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), by Katsushika Hokusai , Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 x 15″ ( 26 x 38 cm), from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is…
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Voting for the Arts?
If you care about federal funding for museums, libraries, cultural institutions in general, funding for arts education, funding for the insurance that makes inter-museum loans for shows possible, or funding for the arts in general, you should make sure to go to your local polling place on election day and vote in favor of those…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edith Hayllar’s Five o’clock tea
Five o’clock tea, Edith Hayllar (1860–1948), oil on canvas, 18 x 14 in. (46 x 35 cm). Image is from a 2011 Christie’s auction. I assume the original is in a private collection. My eye imediately goes to the the almost sihlouetted woman sitting at the top of a small flight of stairs, her arm…
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth’s Flat Boat
Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth, watercolor, drybrush on paper; 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image is from Sotheby’s past auction. Original is likely in a private collection. Another of Andrew Wyeth’s deceptively simple drybrush watercolors, singing with texture, harmonized with muted browns and grays, sharpened with striking value contrasts. Just wonderful.