Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Mønsted Summer landscape
Summer landscape with river floodplain, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. 32×48 inches (81x121cm) I love the way paintings like this, and Mønsted’s in particular, look at first to be smoothly finished and refined, but reveal themselves on closer inspection to be wonderfully painterly.
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A few paintings from 1879
I’m constantly astonished and delighted at what a cornucopia of art was the late 19th century. I don’t know of a period in which there was a greater array of disparate styles and movements. Had the preceding centuries not also been bountiful with wonderful work, I’d be tempted to call it a second Renaissance. I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla’s Under the Awning
Under the awning, on the Beach at Zarauz, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Original is in the Museo Sorolla. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Headed for the beach? Be sure to dress appropriately.
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Eye Candy for today: Hassam’s peach blossoms
Peach Blossoms—Villers-le-Bel, Childe Hassam In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met’s collection pages have changed somewhat; the controls to zoom and download are now available directly under the image. A beautiful, direct and deceptively simple painting by one of the foremost of the artists known as American Impressionists.
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Some thoughts on eyes in early Renaissance portraits
This started out as just an Eye Candy post on Rogier van der Wyden’s beautiful Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet (alternately known as Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress, or simply Portrait of a Young Woman), shown above, top, with detail. In the course of preparing the images for the post, I once…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ portrait of Manet
Edouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on the image on the Met’s page for a zoomable version or use the download arrow. I remember being struck by seeing this drawing in one of the volumes of the old Time Life Library of Art (The World of…