Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2006

  • John Bauer

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    While we’re still on our virtual visit to Sweden for yesterday’s post about Anders Zorn, we should stop by and say hi to John Bauer, a dramatically underappreciated fantasy artist. Looking at Bauer’s wonderfully caricaturish trolls and gnomes, his glowing young princesses and his dark forests of ancient trees, their roots intertwined in Art Nouveau…

  • Anders Zorn

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    As an art student, with an art student’s typical financial state, I used to haunt the used bookstores in and around Philadelphia, looking for those occasional gems of great art books that I could somehow afford. At one point, I came across a ragged copy of a small catalog of prints called Prints of Distinction,…

  • The Comics Curmudgeon

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    Apartment 3-G, 3/22/06 OK. I know I’m dating myself by saying this, but I remember when newspaper comics used to actually be funny. No! Really! I’m serious! It used to be that you could open the comics page of a major metropolitan newspaper like the The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Bulletin, or The Baltimore Sun and…

  • The Tale of How

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    Some drawings just look like they should be animated. I would love to see Van Gogh’s lively stipple dance across the screen, or Miro’s already living line actually grow and move like the organic thing it is. Fortunately some drawings that look like they should be animated actually reach that state. When I first wrote…

  • The Morgan Library and Museum

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    Finally! After 3 years of being off the map, one of the foremost collections and exhibition spaces for works on paper in the US is back. The newly renamed Morgan Library and Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) is set to reopen this Saturday, April 29, 2006. I’ve been to number of exhibitions of master…

  • Panos Fake Roadsigns

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    Art is usually a bit isolated. Paintings and sculpture sit quietly in museum halls, hang in place on gallery walls or in collectors’ homes. A certain amount of sculpture punctuates city streets and parks, but for the most part we don’t encounter that many art objects unintentionally. Panos Fake Roadsigns is a collaborative project that…