Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s Tyrolese Interior
Tyrolese Interior, John Singer Sargent In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download links under the image. Keenly observed and economically rendered, this beautifully evocative interior, bathed in light from an unseen window and set off with religious artifacts subtly revealed in the shadows, is more in keeping with Sargent’s personal watercolors…
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John MacDonald
Massachusetts artist John MacDonald is an illustrator as well as a painter. His landscapes, both plein air and studio work, are sensitive to the changes in light across the seasons, at times with a soft, tonalist approach, and at other times with more sharply defined edges. He often includes creeks and streams in his compositions,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Primavera
La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (unofficial site). Despite another round of snow here on the East Coast of the U.S., today marks…
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Eye Candy for Today: Helen Searle still life
Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum; there is a somewhat larger version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but it’s unfortunately not well focused. Careful you don’t get stung reaching for a grape.
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Matthew Cornell
There is something special about twilight; the transitional period between day and night can also be a metaphor for the transition between consciousness and sleep, past and present, the remembered and forgotten. Like the state between waking and sleep, twilight can also be a period in which two different states coexist, the fading but still…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henriette Browne’s Girl Writing
A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch, Henriette Browne Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. [Correction: the original is in the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Costume, Play and Learn Gallery, which is either…