Category: Eye Candy for Today

Blue Interior, Harriet Backer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; the Norwegan online DigitaltMuseum also has a zoomable image. Norwegan painter Harriet Backer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was…

April Love, Arthur Hughes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Tate, Britain, with a detailed description here. Hughes’s best known work, and one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite paintings in general, this visual poem to the fleeting nature of young love was first exhibited…

Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, Edwin Landseer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. Edwin Landseer was a Victorian painter noted in particular for his sensitive and beautifully portrayals of…

Helena and Hermia, Edward John Poynter Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Victorian painter Edward Poynter gives us a beautiful and sensitive portrayal of the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At once idealized and…

Spring Frost, Elioth Gruner Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Like many of the artists in Australia who were impressed by the approach of French Impressionism as its influence spread from Europe to other continents, Australian artist…