Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Wapping Warf
Wapping Warf, James McNeil Whistler Original is roughly 6×9 inches (15x23cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use download or enlarge icons below image. Another of Whistler’s stellar etchings of riverfront architecture and activity — a beautiful use of line and texture.
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Eye Candy for Today: Hiroshi Yoshida woodblock print
Sekishozan (Shi-shung-shan, South China), Hiroshi Yoshida Large version here. As much as I recognize and admire the influence Japanese printmakers had on European artists, notably the French Impressionists, my favorite synthesis of Japanese and European artistic conventions is found in the woodblock prints of Japanese painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida. There is something about his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Weissenbruch landscape
The Trekvliet Shipping Canal near Rijswijk, Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch Also known as the “View near the Geest Bridge”, original is in the Rijksmuseum, link above is to a zoomable image. Downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Wonderful light, air and painterly rendering by a 19th century Dutch painter who was influenced by the French Barbizon…
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Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse Original is in the Tate, Britain. There is a high-resolution zoomable image on the Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. I almost hesitated to feature this image; Waterhouse’s interpretation of the scene from Tennyson’s poem is so commonly reproduced, it’s almost…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jeanna Bauck’s portrait of Bertha Wegmann painting a portrait
The Danish Artist Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait, Jeanna Bauck On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Swedish Artist Jeanna Bauck (about whom there is frustratingly little on the web) painted her friend, fellow artist and studio-mate Bertha Wegmann in the act of painting a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny’s Landscape with Sunlit Stream
Landscape with Sunlit Stream, Charles-François Daubigny In the Metropolitan Museum of art. Use zoom or download links under image. Ah, summer…..