Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Girtin drawing
Lichfield Cathederal, Staffordshire, Thomas Girtin On Google Art and Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor with pen and ink over graphite, 15×11″ (38x29cm). Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a really high res download available. Info also here.
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Louis janmot
Anne-François-Louis Janmot was a 19th century French painter who devoted his career to depictions of his deeply held Christian faith. Janmot was also a poet. His most ambitious undertaking was a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, accompanied by verse, titled Poem of the Soul. You can see the 18 paintings arranged in order…
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3D printed reproductions of historic paintings
You’ve probably seen by now some of the examples of very high resolution art images, on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project if not elsewhere, and you may have heard of the process of 3D printing, in which ink-jet like printers can print three dimensional physical objects by the computer-controlled application of layers of sprayed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo drawing
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, Leonardo da Vinci Black chalk, charcoal and red chalk, 8 x 6 1/8″ ( 20x15cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image, then use zoom controls or download arrow. It’s not always easy to separate ourselves from the cultural icon…
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Arthur Streeton (revisited)
Arthur Streeton was an Australian landscape artist active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Like the American Impressionists working at the same time, Streeton and other painters in Australia were influenced by the new approach to painting pioneered by the French Impressionists, but took the influence and went their own way, creating unique…
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Eye Candy for Today: Nathaniel Bacon's fruit and veggies
Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, Nathaniel Bacon On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project; click in upper right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Tate. Yummy.