Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Abe Toshiyuki
Abe Toshiyuki is a Japanese watercolor artist whose work often focuses on intimate close in views of nature, as well as more traditional longer views. He uses precise sharp edges in contrast to softer focus areas to wonderful effect, allowing his subjects to posses solidity as well as qualities of the ephemeral. I particularly enjoy…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon
Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas, roughy 30 x 45″ ( 77 x 115 cm), in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art (click on image for an enlargement). There is a larger image on Wikipedia, though the color is off. I’ve taken that image and color corrected it to…
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Eye Candy for Today: The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini
The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini, oil on canvas. roughly 39 x 31 in. (100 x 79 cm). Link is to the Bonham’s auction page from 2010. Click on the image on the Bonham’s page for a larger version. Bonham’s at the time lists it as only “attributed to” Perugini, but all other references to it…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat
Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a…
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A few paintings from 1889
Wikimedia Commons, an offshoot of Wikipedia, is an extensive repository of media files: images, audio, video and even 3D models, to which anyone with a free account can contribute. The material must be either freely licensed or in the public domain. You may have noticed I refer to it often when providing links to works…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen’s Still life with Brass Urn
Still life with Brass Urn, by Soren Emil Carlsen, oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 34 in. (76 x 86 cm). The image was sourced from a Christie’s auction in 2010, so I assume the original is now in a private collection. Another mind-bogglingly beautiful still life from the brilliant Danish painter Emil Carlsen, who…