Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Piranesi architectural fantasy
Part of a spacious and magnificent harbor for the use of the ancient Romans opening onto a large market square…, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Etching, engraving, drypoint and sulphur tint, 16×21″ (20x54cm). From a portfolio titled Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques, and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect. In the collection of…
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Carla Falb
New Jersey based artist Carla Falb finds inspiration in the roller coasters that tower above that state’s Atlantic Ocean beachfront resorts. Her portrayals, based on her own riding experience and photographs, are at times more or less abstract. In their swing toward realism, blurred with speed and imbued with the disorienting sense of chaotic motion,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Etienne Liotard portrait
Portrait of Marie Fargues, Jean-Étienne Liotard In the Rijksmuseum. Use zoom controls at bottom, of create a free account and download images for “Personal Use”.
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen still life
Still Life with Fish, Emil Carlsen In the National Gallery of Art, Washington; use “Zoom” control. Early in his career, the Danish-American painter spent six months in Paris, where he studied the still life paintings of Jean Siméon Chardin, apparently to great effect.
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Daniel Adel (update)
For hundreds of years, artists have been studying drapery, both as garments and backgrounds for still life, and more abstractly as a subject in which is revealed the play of light against complex folds, waves, valleys and ridges — in effect, a microcosm of light in nature. Daniel Adel evidently sees that microcosm, finding continuing…
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Google Art Project changes
Let me start by saying that I have been a fan of the Google Art Project pretty much since it’s inception in February of 2011 — because I love, love, love high resolution art images — just love ’em! (love ’em!), and the Google Art Project has delivered them — in ever increasing numbers. Admittedly…
