Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2006

  • Dave’s [comic book artist] Art Nouveau Collection

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    This is a collection of Art Nouveau style images by modern comic book artists. It’s part of a larger collection called Dave’s Gallery of Comic Art, which, in turn, is part of the Digital Medusa site. Digital Medusa contains other comic art collections, including a unique collection of Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures by comic…

  • Optical Illusions Sites

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    As much as I despise the deliberate campaign by mid-20th Century modernist art critics like Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg to denigrate the history and traditions of western art in order to elevate their own pompous theories (in the process killing realism for half a century), I will grant that they were correct about one…

  • Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

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    In one of my recent posts I was talking about the place of value in painting. It brought to mind one of the greatest masters of value and tone, both in painting and drawing, whose chalk figure drawings are among my favorites by any artist. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was a French painter of the Romantic era,…

  • Frank Reilly

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    Some artists have as much, or more, impact as a teacher as they do as an artist. Although Frank Reilly had been fulfilling assignments as a professional illustrator even while he was still a pupil at the Art Students League, it was on his return there as a teacher that he would make his greatest…

  • Jeremy Lipking

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    Value is one one of the most overlooked and misunderstood properties in painting. No, I don’t mean $Dollar $Value, the only property that seems to matter to some art collectors, I mean the range of value from dark to light, which is often difficult to separate from hue (the particular color) and intensity (how much…

  • Bob MacNeil

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    As mentioned last week on Drawn, Bob MacNeil is a multi-talented illustrator and concept artist with a wide variety of styles. An illustration of his was given a special spotlight in back of the new Flight 3 comics anthology, along with an inspirational story about dealing with tragedy and almost giving up on being an…