Telemaco Signorini was one of the premier members of the Macchiaioli, a group of Italian painters working in Tuscany in the latter half of the 19th Century. They were contemporaries of the French painters of the Barbizon School; and like them, were precursors of Impressionism Read More …
For those who are frustrated by the seeming shortage of high-resolution images of great paintings on the web, and are tired of navigating little zoom windows to try to get a glimpse of brushwork or paint surface, one resource for full screen high-resolution images of Read More …
With snow still on the ground throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic United States, and more on the way, I thought it appropriate to look at an American artist renowned for his scenes of snow and winter. Edward Willis Redfield was one of the major figures Read More …
As I pointed out in my previous post about Gustave Caillebotte, he is one of my two favorite underappreciated French Impressionist painters (along with Alfred Sisley). Though he was not the draughtsman Degas was (few were), or as facile with brush and color as Monet Read More …
Wikipedia Loves Art is a combination photography contest and scavenger hunt with the intention of illustrating articles on the free encyclopedia with photographs of specific art objects from participating museums, taken by the contestants and released under a Creative Commons License. There are participating museums Read More …
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have a particular fondness for painters at the edges of French Impressionism, both in terms of precursors to the Impressionist style and a range of other painters who were influenced by that style but Read More …