Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2007

  • Al Hirschfeld

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    I promised you something lighthearted today, so how about the wonderful drawings of Al Hirschfeld? OK, so maybe you’re familiar with Hirschfeld. Maybe you’re seen the documentary on his life and work, The Line King on PBS. Maybe you’ve seen his work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum…

  • Dino Valls

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    I’ll start by suggesting that the paintings of Spanish painter Dino Valls are not for the faint of heart or easily offended; and I’ll be back tomorrow with something more lighthearted if you care to return then. Though they contain little in the way of outright violence, and may seem mild in a culture inured…

  • Dan McCarthy

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    The “About Me” section of Dan McCarthy’s web site simply has three photos of him pulling screen prints, a photo of a dog (presumably his), and the unhelpful legend, “more soonish..”. Not very informative, but the prints are pretty much the story. Though there are sections of posters, paintings and even T-shirts on the site,…

  • Evelyn Pickering De Morgan

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    Evelyn Pickering knew at a very early age that she wanted to be an artist. At a point in the mid-19th Century when it was possible, but still not entirely acceptable, for women to do so, she convinced her parents to allow her to attend art school. She enrolled at the Slade School of Art…

  • Claude Lorrain

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    Landscape has always had a place in Western art, but it wasn’t until the 17th Century that it came to the foreground, so to speak. French master Claude Lorrain is one of history’s great landscape painters. His name was actually Claude Gellée. He is better know by Lorrain, from Lorraine, the region of his birth,…

  • Forget the film, watch the titles

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    What a great idea this is. The Submarine Channel, a web based launching point for independent film and multimedia producers, has started a new feature called Forget the film, watch the titles. This is the start of an ongoing collection of animated film titles, featuring examples of both opening and closing film credits divided into…