Category: High-res Art Images
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Symphony in White, No. 1
Symphony in White, No 1: The White Girl, James McNeill Whistler; oii on canvas, roughly 84 x 42 inches (213 x 108 cm) It’s been my observation that in master paintings the majority of edges are soft, reserving the hard edges for focusing the viewer’s eye on the primary area of interest. In this remarkable…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Singer Sargent landscape
Simplon Pass, John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 37 inches ( 72 x 93 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the high resolution image. The more I study John Singer Sargent’s paintings the more I’m knocked out by…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Mellan single line engraving
Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth (alternately: Sudarium of Saint Veronica), Claude Mellan, engraving on paper, roughly 17 x 13 in. (43 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (click on image to zoom, click small down arrow to download) This remarkable engraving by 17th century French engraver and…
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Same Energy – image similarity search with Deep Learning
In my previous post on Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye, I mentioned the “visual search” or “search by image” features of the major search engines, in which a reference image is the basis of the search rather than text. Bing and Google will search first for additional copies of the same…
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Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye
As you might imagine, in the course of writing Lines and Colors I do a fair bit of searching out art images on the web — whenever possible searching for the largest examples of images of artwork that I can find. One of the ways I do this is to use the “image search” features…