Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2010

  • Joseph Adolphe

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    Originally from Calgary, Canada, illustrator and gallery artist Joseph Adolphe now lives and works in Connecticut. His painted illustrations have an immediate, painterly quality that almost seems casual, with paint laid on in dabs and chunks, rough textured backgrounds and a loose, comfortable command of his materials. Many of his illustrations blend drawing and painting,…

  • Simone Bingmer

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    Pastel is a fascinating medium that traverses the boundaries of both drawing and painting. In the hands of portrait artist Simone Bingmer it falls into the latter category, taking on the refined appearance of oil painting, but with a textural surface quality unique to the dry medium. Bingmer lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She…

  • Telemaco Signorini

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    Telemaco Signorini was one of the premier members of the Macchiaioli, a group of Italian painters working in Tuscany in the latter half of the 19th Century. They were contemporaries of the French painters of the Barbizon School; and like them, were precursors of Impressionism in their devotion to painting outdoors, painting everyday subjects and…

  • Fritz Kahn

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    Dr. Fritz Kahn was a Berlin based gynecologist who wrote and illustrated a number of popular science books that showed the processes of the human body as though they were machines. While the metaphors may be limited in terms of actually understanding biological functions, they make for great imagery. Kahn was active in the 1920’s.…

  • Dan P. Carr

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    Dan P. Carr is a Virginia based illustrator whose online illustration portfolio, as far as I can tell, consists of a Flickr set, and whose blog covers a number of delightfully rambling topics, from posts on choosing colors for palettes, to the names of colors in Old English, to vintage Cream videos, to Yeats poems,…

  • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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    The website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is large and sprawling and full of amazing stuff, much like the museum itself. Also like the physical museum, wandering around and exploring is often rewarded with unexpected delights and treasures. One of the treasures on the Met’s website is the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.…