Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2006

  • Edmund Tarbell (revisited)

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    Painters throughout history have used family members as models, although usually in the service of a composition where they were painted to represent historical, literary or allegorical subjects. In the late 19th Century that changed as many painters, particularly the Impressionists and artists who were influenced by them, began to paint their immediate relatives in…

  • Brian Despain

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    I just love robots. Big, little, advanced, retro, shiny, dinged, menacing, friendly or simply wacky, ‘bots leave lots of room for artists to play with forms, textures and wild ideas. Brian Despain paints great bots. His are of the dingy and dinged variety, and he excels at giving his metallic surfaces that battered and oxidized…

  • Yan Nascimbene

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    Simplicity is an enigmatic and elusive quality. We often say we admire and desire it, but seldom feel we have reached it. French/Italian illustrator Yan Nascimbene manages to achieve that quality often in his serene and engaging illustrations that dwell on the enchantment of the ordinary. Obviously very influenced by the simplicity and charm of…

  • Daniel Garber

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    Pennsylvania is a beautiful state. It’s lush and green in the summer, bursting with color in the fall and in winter reveals gracefully rolling hills and mountains laced with the traceries of stands of deciduous forest. Eastern Pennsylvania in particular, in the areas along the Brandywine Creek and Delaware River, has inspired two schools of…

  • Herblock (Herb Block)

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    Herbert Block, who signed his name Herblock, was one of the most influential and widely respected American editorial cartoonists in the 20th Century. His remarkable career, most of which was spent on the staff of the Washington Post, spanned much of the 20th Century and extended into the 21st, from 1929 to 2001. Herblock did…

  • I want YOU to get out and vote!

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    Hey you! Yes, you! Are you an American citizen? Did you vote yet? No? Well, go ahead, I’ll wait. … … … … … … … … Back already? That was easy enough wasn’t it? Feels good, doesn’t it? Very important too, and not just for the obvious reasons. Things like funding for the arts,…