Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Dinotopia: The Art of James Gurney

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    It’s always a pleasure when you get to see artworks in person that you’ve become familiar with over time in reproduction; so I was delighted to have the opportunity to see some of my favorite fantasy illustration from James Gurney, author/artist of the terrific Dinotopia series of illustrated books, in a new exhibition at the…

  • Edward Matthew Hale

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    Edward Matthew Hale is one of those 19th Century artists about whom it’s not easy to find information, but whose few available images hint at a terrific body of work. Hale studied in Paris with Alexander Cabanel, whose students included Pierre Auguste Cot and Jules Bastien Lepage; and then with Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, noted as…

  • Emmanuel Malin

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    Line, color and texture combine and interact in the painting/drawings of Emmanuel Malin, at times interwoven, as other times working in contrast. Mixtures of detailed linework and decorative pattern are set off against open areas filled with texture, often the rough texture of papers and other surfaces. Color can appear or disappear, at the artist’s…

  • Edward Redfield

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    With snow still on the ground throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic United States, and more on the way, I thought it appropriate to look at an American artist renowned for his scenes of snow and winter. Edward Willis Redfield was one of the major figures among the artists who gathered in an artists colony in…

  • Stephen Harby

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    Stephen Harby is a working architect and lifelong student of architectural history with a passion for travel and sketching architecture. Harby took a sabbatical from the architectural office in which he had been working for many years and devoted it to travel and sketching, and in the process moved to watercolor as his preferred medium…

  • Rome After Raphael

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    Old master drawings are a challenge for conservators. Fragile and damaged over time simply by exposure to light, drawings cannot be placed on permanent display, or even frequent display. Every period of exposure to light must be considered, in effect, a time subtracted from the life of the drawing. Also, drawings, even those by great…