James Skvarch is an artist I featured back in 2007. He is primarily a printmaker working in traditional methods of etching. He uses to advantage the characteristics of etching that allow for delicate lines and hatching for tones. When printed on cream or off-white paper, Read More …
Early in his career, eighteenth century French painter Hubert Robert fell under the spell of the ruins of ancient Rome — their scale, suggestions of past grandeur and contrast with his modern times. Partly this was from his own experience while living in rome for Read More …
A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple, Hubert Robert. On Google Art Project, click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Getty Museum. On the museum’s site they suggest Robert may have taken inspiration for the monumental Read More …
I don’t ordinarily cover photography here on Lines and Colors, partly because it seems a little off topic, but largely because I feel it’s covered better elsewhere. However, I couldn’t resist the delightful digitally-composited photographic fantasies of Jean-François Rauzier. Essentially a form of digital collage, Read More …
British artist Emily Allchurch uses digital collage, compositing hundreds of her own photographs, usually taken around London, into recreations of old master landscapes. These are then mounted as transparencies in large scale on backlit lightboxes. Her results are dramatic and striking, but the real interest Read More …
I really enjoy etchings. Etching a subtle art that seldom receives the attention it deserves in this day of jaded, color drenched and video saturated vision. Etchings seem quiet, but within their subtlety they can be as dramatic as a painting, and there is something Read More …