Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2016

  • Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Brueghel still life

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    Pomegranates and Other Fruit in a Landscape, Abraham Brueghel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom links under their image. This 17th century still life is an example of how tenuous the attribution of historic art can be. Over time, it has been ascribed to Diego Velázquez, Giuseppe Ruoppoli, and Giovanni…

  • Slawek Fedorczuk

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    Slawek Fedorczuk is an illustrator, character designer and concept artist based in Warsaw, Poland. Fedorczuk has a springy, energetic style with blocky geometric shapes forming much of the natural environment, giving his image a cartoon-like verve. His palette ranges from muted to high-chroma, depending on the demands of the image, with touches of texture adding…

  • Władysław Czachórski

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    Władysław Czachórski was a Polish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century. Though he also painted still life, landscapes and other subjects, Czachórski was known primarily for his portraits and genre paintings of women, dressed in finery and expressively posed among flowers and elegant furnishings. These were rendered with academic realism and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Conrad Martens landscape

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    One of the falls on the Apsley, Conrad Martens Watercolor and gouache, 18 x 24 inches (66 x 46 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Their image is zoomable, even though they don’t give a visible indication to that effect — click on their image to enlarge. There is also a…

  • Amanda Sage

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    Amanda Sage is a visionary artist whose intricately patterned compositions are meant to represent states of awareness or inner visions as opposed to ordinary perception of the visual world. Sage studied with Michael Fuchs, and his father Ernst Fuchs, a well-known pioneer of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and a mentor to the contemporary…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Dürer’s Large Piece of Turf

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    The Large Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to board, roughly 16 x 12 inches (41 x 31 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. For its small size and unassuming subject, this painting ranks among…