Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlsen roses
Still Life with Yellow Roses, Emil Carlsen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which doesn’t appear to have an image online. I wish more of Carlsen’s beautifully painterly still life paintings were available in high resolution. For now, I’ll just be glad…
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Sargent watercolors at MFA, Houston
Just a note for those in the Houston, Texas area that a beautiful exhibition of over 100 watercolors by one of the greatest masters of the medium, John Singer Sargent, is still at the Museum of Fine Arts until May 26, 2014. I saw the version of the exhibit that was at the Brooklyn Museum…