Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Lorenzo Lotto’s Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas (sacra conversazione), Lorenzo Lotto On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original it in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The 16th century venetian master gives us an idyllic tableau of serene faces, beautifully painted. The angel is just… angelic.
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Eye Candy for Today: Bloemaert tree studies
Studies of Two Pollard Willows, Abraham Bloemaert Pen and brown ink with watercolor. Roughly 8×12 inches (20x30cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple, direct and beautifully economical observation from nature. Not a superfluous line.
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Kenny Harris
California based painter Kenny Harris paints landscapes, still life and figurative works, but it is his extraordinary room interiors that captured my attention. Bathed in soft, often indirect light, punctuated by brighter passages of windows or doorways, his interiors are rendered in subtle, dimensional layers of muted colors and painterly textures. Harris studied Fine Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Autumn landscape
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, Vincent van Gogh You might come across versions of this image on the web that are much more colorful — with bright oranges and reds — but despite Van Gogh’s penchant for brilliantly high-chroma paintings in his later career, I don’t believe that’s the case here. I haven’t see the…
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Valentin Korotkov
Valentin Korotkov is a Russian painter based in Moscow, who studied at the Art College of the Kharkov Academy of Design and Art. He paints with a brusque, textural style, in which the surface texture and paint application is visible even in small reproductions. His landscapes have a nice quality of casual immediacy, and range…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean Robie still life
Flowers and fruit, Jean-Baptiste Robie A stunning tour de force of subtle color, texture, light and dark by the Belgian still life painter. On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and measures roughly 64×54 inches (164x137cm). As is often the case, the…