Category: Eye Candy for Today

Still Life with Yellow Roses, Emil Carlsen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which doesn’t appear to have an image online. I wish more of Carlsen’s beautifully painterly still life paintings were available in high resolution. For now, I’ll just be glad…

My Next-Door Neighbor, Edmund Blair Leighton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. I love the feeling of implied narrative here — left open for the viewer to fill out the story. A passing glance? The beginnings of pursuit? An established connection? A past flame? Infidelity? Envy? A fondness for dogs?

The Marne at Chennevières, Camille Pissarro On the Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Similar to my fondness for Monet’s early work, I just love these early landscape paintings by Camille Pissarro, before he adopted his mature Impressionist style. Colorful and painterly, they still…

The Mother and Sister of the Artist, Berthe Morisot In the National Gallery of Art, DC. There is also a reasonably large version, though less true in color, on Wikipaintings. The figure of the artist’s mother shows the touch of Morisot’s friend and mentor, Edouard Manet, who repainted passages of the double portrait the day…