Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Marianne North
I really enjoy botanical art; at its best it combines some of the best characteristics of landscape and still life. Too often, however, botanical artists seem to feel that they must restrain themselves to timidly rendered watercolors, almost devoid of individual artistic expression, lest their efforts be considered less than scientific (how different from scientific…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny’s Landscape with Sunlit Stream
Landscape with Sunlit Stream, Charles-François Daubigny In the Metropolitan Museum of art. Use zoom or download links under image. Ah, summer…..
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Eye Candy for Today: Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy
The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadble file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Modern Art, NY. This was at one time (and probably still is) one of the most widely reproduced images in all of art. In most of those reproductions, however, you will find the colors…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cuyp’s Maas at Dordrecht
The Maas at Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Cuyp’s 1650 portrayal of the Maas River at his hometown of Dordrecht, during a historic gathering of a military force in 1646. See my post on Aelbert Cuyp.
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Vladimir Orlovsky
Vladimir Donatovitch Orlovsky (alternately: Volodymyr Orlovsky) was a Ukrainian landscape painter active at the turn of the 20th century. He is considered one of the major proponents of Ukrainian landscape painting. Orlovsky studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts and painted in France, Germany and Italy, as well as in Russia and his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough chalk study
Study of a Lady, Thomas Gainsborough In the Morgan Library and Museum. Image is also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. A beautifully economical and gestural chalk drawing by Gainsborough; in white and black chalk on colored, prepared paper.