Month: January 2017
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Eye Candy for Today: WH Millais’ Hayes Common
Hayes Common, William Henry Millais In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file of that image, which is slightly larger and more colorful, on Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Millais, the elder brother…
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Josh Keyes
Josh Keyes is an Oregon based painter whose themes include graffiti on objects where it would not normally appear, animals intersecting with civilization in thought provoking ways, and scenes in which nature is reclaiming what appears to be a recently post-human world. The latter theme is sometimes expressed in compositions in which the elements have…
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts
As I mentioned in my post on Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the tragedies of the level of misogyny in the history of art — in addition to the personal tragedies of women whose passion for creating art was denied by societal “norms” — is the unknowable number of possibly brilliant women artists…
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Lines and Colors is on strike today, January 20, 2017
There will be no new posts today on Lines and Colors about art or artists, no lovely images of art to inspire or amuse you. This is perhaps a portent of things to come, but today it’s just a protest. Lines and Colors is on strike today in support of the J20 Art Strike, calling…
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Belshazzar’s Feast, John Martin
Belshazzar’s Feast, mezzotint; & Belshazzar’s Feast, painting; John Martin John Martin was a 19th century British artist noted for his dramatic depictions of disasters and/or impending disasters. Here are two of his interpretations of the Biblical story of Belshazzar’s Feast, in which the arrogant ruler of Babylon shows his disdain for the enslaved population of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Christen Købke Autumn Landscape
Autumn Landscape. Frederiksborg Castle in the Middle Distance; Christen Købke Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Danish painter Christen Købke invites you to step into his late fall landscape to view the castle beyond the trees. I find…