Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Cole's Youth
The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole On Wikimedia Commons, with link to a higher-resolution image and images of the other three paintings in Cole’s The Voyage of Life series. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C., which has a description of the work as well as the others in the series.
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"Selfies" Self-portraits #4
OK, OK — I’ll stop calling them “selfies” (grin), but I’m having way too much fun with these self-portrait posts to stop now. More to come. (Images above, w/links to my posts: Antonio Mancini, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , Ferdinand Hodler, Rene Magritte, Frédéric Bazille, Raphael, Ivan Kramskoy, Charles Wilson Peale)
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Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in new York has a wonderful practice of periodically assembling small, non-blockbuster exhibitions of works on paper from their enormously deep collections. These often go unnoticed in the press, but can surprise and delight visitors to the museum who come across them on their way to something else in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: dinner with Pieter Claesz
Still Life with a Turkey Pie, Pieter Claesz In the Rijksmuseum. Did the centerpiece just look at me?
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"Selfies" #3
OK, I know that the original joking premise of these posts has worn a little thin, but the self-portraits are as strong as ever. (Images above, w/links to my posts: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Arnold Böcklin, M.C. Escher, Alice Pike Barney, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Käthe Kollwitz, Norman Rockwell, Gerrit Dou)
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Brueghel (I) landscape
Latona and the Lycian Peasants, Jan Brueghel the Elder Ostensibly, this is a scene from classical mythology, showing the goddess Latona getting pissed at the peasants who are blocking her from getting a drink and turning them into frogs. I think it’s pretty obvious, however, that what Brueghel was really interested in was the landscape…