Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Juan de Espinosa still life
Still Life with Grapes, Apples and Plums, Juan de Espinosa In the collection of the Museo del Prado, which offers a downloadable as well as zoomable version of the image. There is also a somewhat larger downloadable version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but I think the color on the museum’s image is likely…
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Nico Delort & Teagan White at Gallery Nucleus
Beautiful work by Nico Delort and Teagan White — both of whom I have featured previously on Lines and Colors — is currently on display at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA until March 5, 2017. Many of the originals have already sold, but some pieces are still available. If you’re not familiar with these artists,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait of Madame Félix Gallois
Madame Félix Gallois, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, with touches of cold highlighting the jewelry, roughly 14 x 11 in. (35 x 27 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom links under the image on their site. Another of Ingres’ beautiful and deceptively simple graphite…
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Thomas Fearnley
Thomas Fearnley was a 19th century Norwegian painter who specialized in landscapes. He painted many of his works in Italy, particularly along the beautiful Amalfi coast in places like Sorrento and Capri. He was also an accomplished printmaker and produced very appealing lithographs and etchings of landscape scenes. His subjects ranged from grand and dramatic…
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Eye Candy for Today: WH Millais’ Hayes Common
Hayes Common, William Henry Millais In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file of that image, which is slightly larger and more colorful, on Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Millais, the elder brother…
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Josh Keyes
Josh Keyes is an Oregon based painter whose themes include graffiti on objects where it would not normally appear, animals intersecting with civilization in thought provoking ways, and scenes in which nature is reclaiming what appears to be a recently post-human world. The latter theme is sometimes expressed in compositions in which the elements have…