Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Vermeer: Master of Light

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    Vermeer: Master of Light is a short series of videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington that explores some aspects of Vermeer’s paintings, like composition, color and diffuse edges, that are characteristic of his work and make a Vermeer a Vermeer. The series can be accessed on ArtBabble. There are five episodes, plus…

  • Paul Antonson

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    Sacramento based illustrator Paul Antonson has for several years done illustration and interactive design for the Wall Street Journal Online. He also has editorial clients that include The Village Voice, New York Press and The Onion. He is a children’s book illustrator as well. Antonson’s website includes work from various aspects of his career, and…

  • Piranesi’s Prisons: Architecture of Mystery and Imagination

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    18th Century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his elaborate engravings of the fantastic architectural ruins of Rome. He is even more well known for a set of 14 copper plate etchings titled Carceri (“Prisons”). These are architectural fantasies, “capricious inventions” as they are described on the title page. Their monumental size, grand…

  • Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone From Outer Space!

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    Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone From Outer Space! is a beautifully designed and wonderfully realized, if somewhat nonsensical, animated short by the team of Marc Bouyer, Max Loubaresse and Anthony Vivien, with music by Cyrille Marchesseau and sound design by Mael Vignaux. Involving a clumsy but super powered salesman protagonist, a villain with, er,..…

  • Haltadefinizione, high resolution art images

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    In my recent post on Monet at the Grand Palais, I was praising the online gallery in which a large number of Monet’s works have been made viewable on the web in relatively high resolution images. I say “relatively” because Haltadefinizione, or “HAL9000” (English version here), an Italian project specializing in high-definition photography, has made…

  • Paul Felix

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    Paul Felix is a visual development artist whose credits include Disney feature animation titles like Mulan, Brother Bear, The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch, Tarzan and The Emperor’s New Groove. Felix doesn’t maintain a website, so John Nevarez, himself a talented visual development and storyboard artist for animation, and an ardent admirer of Paul Felix’s…