Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today:Jacob Marrel still life
Still Life With Red, Black And Green Grapes On The Vine, Together With Oranges, A Partly-Peeled Lemon And A Melon On A Draped Table-Top, Jacob Marrel Roughly 20 x 29 inches (51 x 74 cm), oil on panel. Link is to Sotheby’s auction (image file here). As this is the only image I can find,…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness, Sunset in the Woods
Sunset in the Woods, George Inness The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can access a high resolution file; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable and downloadable high-res image. There are paintings that seem to transcend art and move into the…
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Rebecca Giles
Rebecca Giles is a painter based in southeastern Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. She paints primarily still life and is particularly fascinated with the effects of light as revealed in surface texture and as filtered through transparent and translucent objects. She will often backlight her subjects in a way that makes them appear to glow.…
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Eye Candy for Today: View of Naples by Antonino Leto
Naples, Antonino Leto Link is to Wikimedia Commons page that has a link to a large image; original is in a private collection. Leto’s view of the Bay of Naples and a smoky Mt. Vesuvius is a study in atmospheric effects. I love the difference between the intensity of the color in the foreground water…