Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2008

  • Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran

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    Charles Auguste Emile Durand, who apparently felt that he didn’t have enough hyphenations for a self-respecting French painter and adopted the name Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, will probably always be better known as the influential teacher of John Singer Sargent than for his own work. Carolus-Duran studied at the Lille Academy and, after some time in…

  • Boris Kulikov

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    There has been some debate among artists and illustrators (some of it on the comments pages of certain posts here on lines and colors) about the wisdom of placing relatively large, non-watermarked images on the web, where they can ostensibly be “stolen” and used for some nefarious purpose. Those who have read my posts on…

  • Stefan Nuetzel

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    Stefan Nuetzel (or Nützel) is an German painter living and working working in Vienna (Wien), Austria. The galleries on his web site feature his paintings of a variety of subjects, including portraits, figures, interiors and landscapes. The interiors are a short series of art museum views, but there is also a fascinating series of interiors…