Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Rijksmuseum reopens
One of the world’s great museums, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, reopened its doors today after 10 years of renovations. The museum’s centerpiece, Rembrandt’s monumental work Officers and other civic guardsmen of District II of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq andLieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the ‘Night Watch’ (above, second down),…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s redwoods
Giant Redwood Trees of California, Albert Bierstadt. On Google Art Project; click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Berkshire Museum (no image). Bierstadt dazzled east coast society with his large scale paintings of a largely untamed continent. Few natural wonders could match these magnificent giant plants. Giant Redwood Trees…
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Paul Schulenburg
Paul Schulenburg is a painter originally from New York State who now lives and works in Cape Cod. In the galleries on his website you’ll find a variety of figurative subjects, with people working on the fishing docks and in casual situations, as well as studio figure work. You will also find still life subjects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jongkind’s Quai d’Orsay
View from the Quai d’Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow. What might appear, in its wonderful painterly immediacy, to have been painted by a contemporary plein air master, was in fact painted in the mid 1800’s. Jongkind, a Dutch painter who spent…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Oak Grove
Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin. On Wikipaintings. Large version here. Original is in the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art. See my previous Eye Candy post of a Shishkin forest scene (presumably in the same oak forest) and my post on Ivan Shishkin.
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Eye Candy for Today: Boldini’s Table
Corner of Painter’s Table, Giovanni Boldini On Wikipaintings, high-res version here. Perhaps not the best reproduction, with light reflecting off the surface, but what a bizarre and wonderful composition. I don’t know the location of the original. See my post on Giovanni Boldini.