Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2008

  • John Sloan

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    Let’s see if I can get the math right on this, let alone the connections. John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks and Everett Shinn, who are sometimes referred to as the “Philadelphia Four”, were central to the group of upstart artists who critics in the early part of the 20th Century would mockingly dub “The…

  • Robin Eley

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    Robin Eley is an Australian illustrator based in Adelaide. Eley was born in the UK, raised in Australia and trained in the U.S. at Westmont College and the Illustration Academy. Eley paints in acrylic and oil, in a kind of interpretive realism that combines direct representational and stylized images. This is particularly evident in his…

  • Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond

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    I’m always particularly pleased when the art establishment of museums and traditional galleries shakes itself out of its self-imposed blindness and recognizes comics (“graphic narrative”) as the art form it is; so I was pleased to learn that the work of comics artist Jeff Smith, creator of the highly regarded series Bone, is featured in…

  • Colin Page (update)

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    I will often write about artists here on lines and colors whose work I have only seen in digital reproduction on the web. It’s always preferable, though. when I can see the actual work in person, and even better on those rare occasions when I get to meet and speak with the artist. I wrote…

  • More Leyendecker and other great stuff

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    OK, I realize I just posted about the amazing Golden Age illustrator J.C. Leyendecker a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve written about him half a dozen times in the past, but I have this general rule that says there’s no such thing as too much Leyendecker. The first item I want to tell you…

  • The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli (Jay Piscopo)

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    The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli is a reminder of the fun and unpretentious adventure comics of the “Silver Age” (1960’s an 70’s) and before, in this case updated with a bit of anime flavor in the way outline and flat color drawings of the characters are set against rendered and 3-D backgrounds. Drawn and…