Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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High resolution images of Vermeer’s paintings
Johannes Vermeer was either a remarkable 17th century Dutch painter or an enchanted sorcerer of light from beyond time and space — sometimes it’s hard to tell — but I find his work particularly entrancing among all painters. His known existing oeuvre consists of only 36 paintings, each fascinating in their own way. I have…
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Ian Hargreaves
Ian Hargreaves is an English painter who has lived in Italy and Germany, as well as the UK. His landscapes and cityscapes, often sun-splashed or dappled in shade, show the influence of his affection for Mediterranean subjects. Though you can’t see it in the small preview images above, his approach is often brusquely textural, giving…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Lear graphite drawing
Parham, October.13.1834, Edward Lear Graphite and white gouache on toned paper, roughly 10×7 inches (26×17 cm). Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Edward Lear, known these days more for his…
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France
Historically, women have often faced exclusion from participation in the arts, their desire to establish themselves as professional artists curtailed or suppressed by a culture that deemed a career in painting or sculpture unsuitable for the “fairer sex”. This is usually discussed in the context of personal hardship, individual women whose potential careers as artists…
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George Hendrik Breitner
Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for his rough, brushy, textural approach and his subject matter of city streets, working people, military horsemen and figures. In particular he is famous for his recurrent subject of young women in kimonos, their bright colors a…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Roberts’ Edinburgh
Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, David Roberts The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. Mid-19th century painter David Roberts was known primarily for his views of exotic locations and…