Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer’s Knight, Death and the Devil
Knight, Death and the Devil, Albrecht Dürer Engraving, roughly 10×8″ (24x19cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use download arrow or zoom icon under the image. Wow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Edwin Austin Abbey scene from Shakespeare
“King Lear”, Act I, Scene I; Edwin Austin Abbey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use zoom link or download arrow under image. Also, larger, somewhat brighter image on Wikimeda Commons. Usually the Met’s images are pretty accurate, but I happen to like the one from Wikimedia Commons a little better in this case, so…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Comfort Tiffany gouache sketch
Woodland Interior, Louis Comfort Tiffany Watercolor and gouache on tan paper, roughly 16×22″ (40x56cm), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. James Gurney has a nice post on his blog today about some of his favorite gouache Masters, which prompted me to think of a few artists who did beautiful work in gouache, though they were…
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Peter “Pete the Street” Brown
Peter brown is British painter, whose dedication to location painting and penchant for working in all manner of weather conditions, often in the streets in the midst of the bustle of city activity, has earned him the nickname of “Pete the Street”. Brown paints in his home base of Bath in southwestern England, and on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rose Adélaïde Ducreux self portrait
Self portrait with a Harp, Rose Adélaïde Ducreux In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download arrow under the image for larger version. Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, who studied with her father, painter Joseph Ducreux, here portrays herself with a harp and in a luxuriously finessed gown that dominates the work. I suspect that, like…
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Andrew Bonneau
Andrew Bonneau is an Australian artist currently living in New York, where he studied at the Grand Central Academy of Art. I was struck first by his still life paintings, in which he gives attention to delicate nuances of light in the presentation of his forms. He carries that same attention to the illumination of…