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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck’s Marchesa Balbi 25 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. I’m not a...
Maja Wronska 24 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
Maja Wronska is, I think, a Polish architecture student. I’m a little uncertain in that she doesn’t appear to have a dedicated website — relying instead on a deviantART gallery and a Tumblog for her w...
Debussy Google Doodle 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
The Google homepage today features a beautifully elegant, and deceptively simple, animated Google Doodle in honor of the 151st anniversary of the birth of French composer Achille-Claude Debussy. The ...
Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life 22 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
Still Life with Oranges, Jars and Boxes of Sweets, Louis Meléndez The original is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. View the painting in high resolution on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Projec...
Santiago Rusiñol 21 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am
For a long time, my only impression of Santiago Rusiñol was of the painting Interior of a Café (images above, second down), which is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I liked the painting, with its o...
Eye Candy for Today: Metcalf nocturne 20 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
May Night, Willard Metcalf There is an article on Wikipedia that gives background on the painting. The original is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Takeshi Oga 20 Aug 2013 | 08:16 am
Takeshi Oga is a Japanese concept artist and illustrator working in the gaming industry. He has worked on projects that include Gravity Rush, Siren 2, Siren: New Translation, Final Fantasy XIV and Fin...
Kazu Kibuishi’s new Harry Potter cover illustrations 16 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
Illustrator and comics artist Kazu Kibuishi, who I have written about previously, has recently had the enviable task of creating new cover illustrations for the Scholastic re-printings of the Harry Po...
Eye Candy for Today: The Merode Altarpiece 15 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), Workshop of Robert Campin Here we find the early 15th century artist(s) diving headlong into the capabilities of the newly adopted medium of oil painting, e...
Mark Boedges 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Originally from St. Louis and now based in Burlington, Vermont, where he and his wife recently opened a gallery, Mark Boedges is a plein air painter who finds similar geometric strength in composition...
