Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Willem Claeszoon Heda still life
Still Life of Oysters, a Nautilus Cup, a Roemer, Lemon and Other Objects, Willem Claeszoon Heda On Sotheby’s (zoomable). Direct link to image file here. I love the subtle sheen of colors in the nautilus cup, and the way the glassware almost disappears into the dark background. Interesting to compare to this somewhat more elaborate…
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Victor Gilbert
In the late 19th century, artists in Europe, emboldened by the advent of Realism and the freedom it granted from historical or romanticized themes, began to depict contemporary daily life. Some specialized in specific aspects of day to day life, particularly in Paris, center of the art world at the time. Victor-Gabriel Gilbert was a…
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The Star of Bethlehem, Edward Burne-Jones
The Star of Bethlehem, Edward Burne-Jones On Google Art Project, high res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Watercolor and bodycolor on ten sheets of paper, on stretcher, 101 × 152 in (260 cm × 390 cm), or roughly 8 ft x 12 ft. Based on his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Antoine Gros chalk portrait
Portrait of a Woman, Antoine Jean Gros In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Black chalk, 11 x 8 inches (28 x 19cm). I love the way the application of the chalk is alternately bold and delicate. For such a seemingly basic material, chalk can be astonishingly subtle. With the help of a stomp, Gros has…
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Eye Candy for Today: Curran’s Fair Critics
Fair Critics, Charles Courtney Curran In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. I just love paintings of artists’ studios, particularly those in which other paintings are depicted. I wish the Met’s site had more commentary about this one. Does “Fair Critics” refer to the critical judgement of those…
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Winter Solstice with the Pennsylvania Impressionists
Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we don’t have the harshest winters — certainly not like Minnesota or Maine or even northern New York State — but we do have winter; and never have Pennsylvania’s winters been more beautifully celebrated than by the Pennsylvania Impressionists, a group painters who formed an art colony in and around New…