Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2008

  • More Fractals on COLORlovers

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    The COLORlovers blog, which I mentioned in this post and in my post on the History of the Color Wheel, has posted an article with a nice collection of Fractal Art. I find these kinds of images, created by manipulating the paramaters by which certain mathematical functions are interpreted, to be endlessly fascinating; both for…

  • Scott McCloud’s Info-comic for Google Chrome

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    In his role as one of the main analysts and thinkers on the subject of the comics art form, and the author of several widely acclaimed books on the subject in which he discusses the medium in the medium, presenting his thoughts in the form of graphic narrative; Scott McCloud has in the process become…

  • Art and the River

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    In the late 19th and early 20th Century, New York and Boston were major centers of American Impressionism. These were American artists who had traveled to Europe and encountered the French Impressionists and their daring new approach to painting, or had been impressed by their work in exhibits mounted in the U.S., and incorporated some…