Category: Eye Candy for Today
-
Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques
Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques (attributed to) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin. The portrait of the man has considerably more force and presence than that of the woman, leading me to think that it…
-
Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher From the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Too often, Escher’s skills as a draftsman and printmaker are overshadowed by his brain-twisting themes. This one, though still weird and cool, is more straightforward than some. Apparently drawn from life, with the difficult spherical perspective, it features the common cheat in…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Parton landscape
Early Spring, Arthur Parton In the Indianapolis Museum of Art, use zoom or download options to the right of the image. Beautifully direct and painterly, with wonderful control of hard and soft edges, Parton’s unpretentious landscape captures the season perfectly.
-
Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s Washington Arch, Spring
Washington Arch, Spring, Childe Hassam The link is to a zoomable version on the GoogleArt Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. What has always fascinated me about this painting — one of Hassam’s most recognizable works — is the seeming defiance of compositional…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s Tyrolese Interior
Tyrolese Interior, John Singer Sargent In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download links under the image. Keenly observed and economically rendered, this beautifully evocative interior, bathed in light from an unseen window and set off with religious artifacts subtly revealed in the shadows, is more in keeping with Sargent’s personal watercolors…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Primavera
La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (unofficial site). Despite another round of snow here on the East Coast of the U.S., today marks…