Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen street scene
Amsterdam Street Scene, Adrianus Eversen In the National Gallery of Art, DC. I just love late-18th, early 19th century Dutch townscapes. They’re wonders of texture. Eversen’s are looser and more painterly than most.
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s river
River, Frits Thaulow On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bergen Kunstmuseum. I just love the way Thaulow handles the depiction of water, particularly the surface of small streams. I can’t think of anyone who does it better. For more, see my previous posts on Frits Thaulow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Pedro Alexandrino still life
Grapes and Peaches, Pedro Alexandrino On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. A beautiful still life by a turn of the 20th century Brazilian artist I stumbled across on the Google Art Project. I’ll see if I can dig up more for…
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Eye Candy for Today: Moran’s Green River Cliffs
Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Thomas Moran On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The most striking of Moran’s dramatic paintings of the American West —which is saying something. For more, see my post on Thomas Moran.
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Eye Candy for Today: Greuze’s The White Hat
The White Hat, Jean-Baptiste Greuze On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I love paintings like this that go from highly refined passages to areas that are remarkably painterly.