Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Cupids. Allegory of Painting (François Boucher)

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    Is it love or is it art? Only François Boucher, that master of Rococo excess and dazzle, knew what his allegory of painting actually implied. It was meant to be matched with a companion painting, Cupids. Allegory of Poetry, for which I haven’t found a web based image. Cupids came to have meaning in allegorical…

  • Society of Illustrators 2010 Student Scholarship Competition

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    Wow. Judging by the work shown in the Student Illustration winners gallery of the Society of Illustrators 2010 Student Scholarship Competition, we are in for a treat as a new wave of talented illustrators readies themselves for professional life. There is a astonishingly high level of ability on display here, along with imagination and the…

  • Overcoming Creative Block (Scott Hansen)

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    Scott Hansen, an artist and musician based in San Francisco, has posted an article on his blog iso50 called Overcoming Creative Block, in which he has asked 25 artists, writers, musicians and other creative professionals “What do you do to inspire your creativity when you find yourself in a rut?”. Along with those responses, there…

  • ArtMagick

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    ArtMagick one of those delightful art sites dedicated to a few related genres of painting; in this case some of the more interesting movements in late 19th and early 20th Century art. According to their own description: “ArtMagick is a virtual gallery dedicated to the continual quest of seeking out obscure 19th century artists and…

  • Fernando Botero

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    Fernando Botero Angulo, often known simply as “Botero” is a Colombian artist known for his exaggeratedly rotund figures and still life subjects. Botero started his artistic career as an illustrator, before that attending an matador school for two years. He also worked as a set designer. In 1953 at the age of 21, he moved…

  • Florian Satzinger

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    Austrian production and character designer Florian Satzinger has a drawing style with a snap and verve that harken back to the best of classic Disney and mid 20th Century Warner Brothers animation. The lines with which he delineates his characters zing, bounce and swoop so delightfully that they suggest lively motion even before they’re animated.…