Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2012

  • Sean Cheetham (update)

    Since writing a post about portraitist and figurative artist Sean Cheetham in 2008, I still know little more about him than I did then, which wasn’t much. Still, I’ve gathered what additional resources I can for an update post. His direct, uncompromising portraits have a wonderful sense of presence and personality, as well as a…

  • Felicity House

    I’ve commented previously on the interesting place that pastel has in the range of art media. Though dry, and therefore technically a “drawing” medium, pastel can have almost all of the qualities of painting. Felicity House is an English artist who uses pastel in a way that is simultaneously drawing and painting, with a lively…

  • John Severin 1921-2012

    John Severin was an excellent and underappreciated comics artist whose career spanned a good part of the 20th century and into the 21st. Severin was prolific during his long career, and though he never developed the devoted following of flashier artists (except among a discerning few), he produced consistently high-level work for a variety of…

  • Tang Yin (Tang Bohu)

    Ming Dynasty Chinese painter Tang Yin (also known as Tang Bohu) painted figures, notably women, as well as birds and small details of blossoms and branches, but I find him most interesting for his beautifully dramatic landscapes. Tang Yin was active in the 16th century and was one of the foremost painters of his era,…

  • Winter Tales at Kunsthaus Zürich

    Those of us on the East Coast of the U.S. have so far been experiencing an unusually mild winter; not so for most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. In Europe it must seem as though the North Pole has shifted into your back yard. For those who need to be reminded of winter’s…

  • Samuel John Lamorna Birch

    Though he studied for a short time at an atelier in Paris, English painter Samuel John “Lamorna” Birch was mostly a self taught artist. Birch was one of the earliest of the second wave of “Newlyn School” artists, a group that included Alfred J. Munnings, Stanley Gardner and Laura and Harold Knight. Birch is often…