Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Rousseau’s Carnival Evening
Carnival Evening, Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau Zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When I was younger, I had a poster of this painting on my apartment wall, and I still enjoy its presence here in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rousseau is often considered…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank Dicksee’s The Two Crowns
The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate Britain. In a turn of the 20th century painting of a Medieval scene, the crown of a king is seen in a different light when he is struck with the…
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Eye Candy for Today: William York MacGregor’s The Vegetable Stall
The Vegetable Stall, William York MacGregor Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. I just love this kind of in-situ still life. MacGregor’s earthy colors and wonderfully brushy, textural approach make this painting — one of the artist’s best…
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Eye Candy for Today: Karl Friedrich Schinkel pen lithograph
Das Schloss Prediama in Crein XII Stund: von Triest (The Castle of Predjama in Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste), Karl Friedrich Schinkel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. This striking print by the German artist, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a pen…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugène Ciceri winter scene
Winter Scene with Two Men, Eugène Ciceri In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Ciceri’s wonderful evocation of winter is at once both drawing and painting; naturalistic and stylized; controlled and free; monochromatic and yet rich with “color” in a way similar to Chinese ink paintings.
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Krøyer’s Luncheon
A luncheon. The artist, his wife and the writer Otto Benzon, Peder Severin Krøyer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen. Group portrait, self portrait, room interior or still life — Kroyer’s simple but beautifully painted domestic scene works brilliantly in…