Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Ramon Casas’ Plein air
Plein air, Ramon Casas Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona. Casas was a Catalan Spanish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known primarily for his portraits. I believe the “plein air” of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Falls at Toltec Gorge
Falls at Toltec Gorge, Thomas Moran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; 1000 Museums has version online that you can download here; original is in the Oklahoma City Museum (no collections online). When Moran turns his Turner-influenced eye to the rough textures of the American landscape, the results are usually amazing. I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Roelant Roghman drawing
View of castle Groenewoude, Roelant Roghman Chalk, with brush on paper; roughly 14×19″ (35x49cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Roughman’s seemingly simple — but precise and deftly rendered — 17th century drawing is described on the Rijksmuseum’s site with chalk as the material and brush as the technique. I assume from the look of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s In the Orchard
In the Orchard, Edmund Charles Tarbell Link is to large, downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Apparently, Edmund Tarbell — one of most noted of the painters classified as “American Impressionists” — liked to say that he wasn’t particularly influenced by the French Impressionist painters…
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Eye Candy for Today: Aelbert Cuyp chalk drawing
View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Aelbert Cuyp Black and brown chalks, green and gray washes, roughly 7 x 14 inches (18 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art With simple lines and deft applications of tone — in only a few levels of value…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh’s painted copy of Hiroshige print
Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh. Zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Van Gogh Museum. Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; file on Wikipedia. About mid-way through his all too short career, Vincent van Gogh, like many of the French Impressionists…