Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2010

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Charles Le Brun

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Charles Le Brun was a major figure in 17th Century French Painting. Here, in his Adoration of the Shepherds (also here), he displays his skill with composition, color and light, using them to gently guide our eye through several aspects of a complex scene. The immediate focus, of course, is on the mother and child,…

  • Walt Kelly’s A Visit from St. Nicholas

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    The brilliant Walt Kelly, one time Disney artist and creator, artist and writer of Pogo, one of the greatest comic strips aver produced, at one point turned his hand to an interpretation (it you want to call it that) of Clement Moore’s familiar Christmas poem, A Visit From St. Nicholas, which many small children know…

  • More Haddon Sundblom Santas

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Despite the inaccurate claims made by Coca-Cola for a number of years (they have since modified their story), and some confusion from other quarters, American illustrator Haddon Sundblom did not create the look of Santa Claus as we know him. That story is a bit less than straightforward and involves a number of other illustrators,…

  • Wikimedia Commons

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    No, it doesn’t have anything to do with WikiLeaks, but Wikimedia Commons is related to another familiar Wiki based phenomenon, Wikipedia, in that both are projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. (A wiki, by the way, is simply a kind of website, specifically, a potentially collaborative website created with wiki software, that allows for contribution, editing…

  • Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Jennifer Oliver was kind enough to write and let me know that she has posted a two-part interview with French fantasy illustrator and concept artist Jean-Baptiste Monge (who I profiled previously here) on her blog Academy of Art Character and Creature Design Notes. An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge, Part 1, and Part 2. The blog…

  • Velázquez Portrait Restored, Literally and Figuratively

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    In 1973, for reasons still not clear to me, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York undertook a sweeping reassessment of many of its holdings, resulting in the downgrading of 300 old master paintings from attribution to the master to attribution to “workshop of”, “circle of” or “follower of”, removing them from the canon…