Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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David Riedel
Originally from Indiana, still life and landscape painter David Riedel studied art in Arizona, and later at the Art Students League in New York, where he studied with noted painter and teacher David Leffel. You can see Leffel’s influence in Riedel’s nuanced attention to value relationships and visual flow through his compositions. Riedel also exhibits…
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Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Tree, Johann Scheuren
Study of a Tree, Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren Watercolor over pencil, 124 x 200 in (316 x 512cm). On Google art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Though I’m not quite as taken with her work as I am with the paintings of her contemporary, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, I do admire Labille-Guiard’s skill with paint, and with chalk drawing. At…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Rickarby Miller apples
Still Life – Study of Apples, William Rickarby Miller I’ve linked here to a version of this image on The Athenaeum. The original is in the de Young museum in San Francisco. There is a high resolution version on the Google art Project, and a downloadable high resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. The Google Art…
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Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River, MFA Houston
Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River is an exhibition currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that collects over 50 works related to the French Impressionist’s lifelong fascination with the river at the heart of Paris and, metaphorically, at the heart of France. Monet was known for his series paintings, in which…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Cymon and Iphigenia
Cymon and Iphigenia, Lord Frederic Leighton On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art gallery of New South Wales. Victorian artist Frederic Leighton brings his finessed painting skill to bear on a sensual and erotic portrayal of a tale from The Decameron — the famous 14th century Italian…