Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2009

  • Charles Leickert

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    Charles Henri Joseph Leickert was a painter who would have been well suited to painting scenes of the freezing weather we’re currently experiencing in much of the United States. Leickert was a Belgian born painter who lived and worked most of his life in the Netherlands. He specialized in winter landscapes, often with a “street…

  • Andrew Wyeth, 1917 – 2009

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    Andrew Wyeth, an American realist painter who in some ways epitomized the conflict between late 20th Century Modernism and the Realist tradition, died today in his sleep in his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania at the age of 91. Wyeth was the son of the great American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Those familiar with the elder…

  • Frank E. Schoonover

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    Frank Earle Schoonover as one of the notable students of the great American illustrator Howard Pyle. Though not the equal of Pyle’s most accomplished student, N. C. Wyeth (who was?), Schoonover was nonetheless one of the most prominent and successful American illustrators from the “Golden Age” of American illustration; and left a legacy of more…

  • Jen Stark

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    Many artists are fascinated with paper, it’s many forms, characteristics, tones, surfaces and colors; and the way it provides a platform and co-meduim for various kinds of drawing and painting. Jen Stark has chosen to make paper itself her primary medium, creating vibrant, intensely hued sculptures out of hand cut stacks of colored paper. Her…

  • Different Strokes from Different Folks Portrait Swap

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    I wrote previously about Karin Jurick’s Different Strokes from Different Folks cooperative painting blog, in which participants all paint their interpretation of a given photographic subject. In a fascinating variation for the Year End Challenge, participating painters were asked to submit a photograph of themselves from the shoulders up. These were then swapped, distributed out…

  • S. Clay Wilson

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    Taking a page from yesterday’s post about the first issue of Juxtapoz, which featured an article on Zap Comix 13, I wanted to make a hopefully timely post about underground comix artist S. Clay Wilson. Wilson is a cartoonist and comics artist whose work is rude, crude and full of atti-tude to the point where…