Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Panini’s Interior of the Pantheon
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome; Giovanni Paolo Panini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Panini has used false perspective here to show more of the interior and the spectacular dome than would be possible otherwise, though from my recollection of my one visit some years ago, I’d say he’s also made the building feel…
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Naoto Hattori (update)
Naoto Hattori studied graphic design in his native Japan, and illustration here in the U.S. at the School of Visual Arts in NY. Hattori’s work carries some elements common to pop surrealism conventions, and some in common with visionary art, but I most enjoy those pieces in which he explore his own themes — in…
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Olga Wisinger-Florian
Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian originally trained for a career as a concert pianist, but changed to painting in a style influenced by Impressionism. She painted primarily floral still life and landscapes, many of the latter with floral themes.
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Eye Candy for Today: Adriaen Ysenbrandt’s The Magdalen in a Landscape
The Magdalen in a Landscape, Adriaen Ysenbrandt In the National Gallery, London. Also on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Painted in the early 16th century, this delicately rendered devotional piece features a truly strange landscape, including a scene within a scene in which Mary is shown reading in a rather bizarre little…
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Andrew Wyeth’s windows
As I’ve mentioned before, I run hot and cold on Andrew Wyeth. I’m not particularly fond of the paintings that are generally regarded to be his major works — which tend to be figurative and conceptual, with narrative implications — but I do very much like some of his simple and direct observations of his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pompeo Batoni’s Diana and Cupid
Diana and Cupid, Pompeo Batoni Mid 18th century. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download links under the image. Diana and Cupid, Met Museum