Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: De Hooch courtyard
A Musical Party in a Courtyard, Pieter de Hooch In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. Another of De Hooch’s wonderful explorations of space and light, into which we are irresistibly drawn. Here, De Hooch invites us into a foreground space that, at first glance,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eakins sculls
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), Thomas Eakins In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link. One of Eakins’ fascinating exercises in river surface perspective on the Schuylkill River here in Philadelphia. This area of the river is still commonly used for sculling, though the bridges and the banks of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dulac’s Father Time
Father Time, Edmund Dulac On The Pictorial Arts (click on image for larger version). See my post on Edmund Dulac.
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Double Degas Eye Candy for Today
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, and Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas Degas was restless experimenter. In his depiction of a ballet rehearsal (for which Degas himself “rehearsed” with a number of preparatory drawings, and finished in three different versions) he is experimenting both with composition, as he frequently did, and with…
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Eye Candy for Today: Isaac de Moucheron landscape drawing
Classical Landscape, Isaac de Moucheron In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then zoom or download arrow. A beautiful drawing in the grand tradition of 17th century Dutch landscapes in pen and ink with washes. In this case, the artist has combined two ink colors, brown and gray-brown. The original measures roughly 7×12…
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Eye Candy for Today: Way’s grapes
Bunch of Grapes, Andrew John Henry Way In the Walters Art Museum. Use “Explore Object” line in upper left of image, or Download link to right.