Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Roelofs’ Rainbow
The Rainbow (Evening of a Rainy Autumn Day), Willem Roelofs On Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Originai is in the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag. It’s difficult to paint a rainbow without succumbing to the picturesque, but 19th century Dutch painter Willem Roelofs accomplishes it brilliantly — by pushing the prismatic phenomenon into…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Blechen interior
Interior of the Palm House, Carl Blechen On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. I had seen reproductions of this painting before, and has assumed it was a watercolor from the translucency of the leaves and the graphic nature of some of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Boucher’s Madame Bergeret
Madame Bergeret, François Boucher On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. I think Boucher’s middle name was “Eye Candy” (or perhaps “friandise visuelle”). Many of his paintings were such calculatedly overt bonbons that you just have to give in and enjoy without worrying…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daniel Ridgway Knight’s Shepherdess of Rolleboise
The Shepherdess of Rolleboise, Daniel Ridgway Knight On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable image available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Brooklyn Museum. I know that Knight’s softly atmospheric pastoral scenes were crafted to be appealing to a certain sensibility, and I’m all-in on that.
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Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour candlelight scene
The Repentant Magdalen, Georges de La Tour Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. High-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. La Tour gives us one of his (if you’ll excuse the expression) tour de force candle-lit scenes, in which the flame itself is hidden, but the forms are revealed by the direct but…