Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2009

  • Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery

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    The wonderfully demented art of Basil Wolverton, a cartoonist who helped put the “Ugh” in ugly and the “Gross” in gross-out with his work for Mad Comics (later Mad Magazine) in the 1950’s and 60’s, will be on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York From June 20 to August 14, 2009. The gallery…

  • Cowboy Artists of America

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    Cowboy Artists of America is an organization devoted, in the words of the founders: To perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West as typified by the late Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and others; To insure authentic representations of the life os the West, as it was and is; To maintain standards of quality…

  • Don Coker

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    Georgia artist Don Coker found himself at a crossroads this year when the round of cutbacks and layoffs sweeping the newspaper industry (which is being hit by both the economic downturn and the changing paradigm of how news is delivered) caused him to be laid off from his long time position as a newspaper illustrator,…

  • Assembled Artifacts

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    Assembled Artifacts, a show of sculptural objects that opened today at Device Gallery in San Diego, is aptly named. The wonderfully odd and eclectic collections of mechanical parts, metal objects, leather and cloth, have assembled into sculptures of figures, vehicles, robots, devices and animals by the participating artists. As is often the case with these…

  • Alan Bean

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    You will sometimes hear people argue about the most important events in human history — the discovery of fire, the wheel or the printing press, the first cave paintings, or, in a longer view, the first deliberate cultivation of plants or the rise of cro-magnons and the apparent extinction of the neanderthals. But, as a…

  • ImageS 11

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    I’ve pointed this out before, but it’s worth mentioning again. Lovers of beautiful illustration, and classic illustration from the “Golden Age” in particular, will tell you that computer monitors, for all of their glowing, zillions of colors brilliance, fall behind print when it comes to viewing images. (Seeing the original drawings or paintings in person…