Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy

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    Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s wonderfully bizarre blendings of nature and humankind, incorporating natural forms like vegetables, twigs and leaves as well as fish and other small animals in the representation of human faces, can still “turn heads” today, as they must have in the 16th Century. Largely forgotten shortly after his death and re-discovered in the 20th…

  • OP-ED at 40: Four Decades of Illustration

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    40 years ago, the New York Times debuted a new page, the OP-ED or Opposite Editorial page, meant to be both physically and philosophically opposite the editorial page. In choosing the art for this page, the editors wanted to step outside the customary range of editorial cartoons and find an opposing style there as well.…

  • Art of the American Soldier

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    I’ve written before about combat artists, soldiers called on (or inspired to) record their experiences in combat and in other aspects of a soldier’s life. Starting in World War I, the U.S. Army had a program of officially designated combat artists. Remarkably, they were told to record their experiences directly as they saw them, and…

  • Divergent: The Art of Sterling Hundley

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    Sterling Hundley, who I’ve written about previously here and here, is the subject of a one man show at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Divergent: The Art of Sterling Hundley opens today, September 24th, 2010, at the Richard C. von Hess Illustration Gallery, 333 South Broad St, Philadelphia, and runs until November…

  • Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

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    Actually, pseudo tilt-shift Van Gogh, but that’s a small quibble. Tilt-shift photography is a process in which depth of field and lens angle are manipulated to make a real scene look like a miniature. The effect can be simulated in Photoshop with judicious selections and applications of blur filters. The folks over at ArtCyclopedia, one…

  • Dictaphone Parcel (Lauri Warsta)

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    Artist Lauri Warsta put a dictaphone (reel to reel audio recorder, anybody remember those?) in a parcel, turned it on and shipped it from London to Helsinki. He took the resultant recording of truck, warehouse and plane sounds, along with snippets of surreptitiously collected worker conversation, edited it down, and then animated his impressions of…