Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Edward Gorey Book Covers

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    I found when I wrote a post on Edward Gorey last year that though there are scattered sources for his illustrations on the web, there is little in the way of a dedicated repositiory of his work. This has in some degree been addressed courtesy of a wonderful Flicker set by Marci and Deth of…

  • How Long Does it Take To Look at a Painting? (James Elkins)

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    James Elkins is the E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the author of several books, including Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students and The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. Elkins has a…

  • Sorolla’s studio on Art Contrarian

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    Donald Pittenger has posted a wonderful Sorolla Museum: Pictorial Report from his recent visit to Madrid on his blog Art Contrarian. The Museo Sorolla, unlike a number of museums for individual artists that consist of their house and/or studio arranged as much as possible as it was when in use by the artist, also houses…

  • Douglas Martenson

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    Douglas Martenson studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he now teaches painting. He is also a lecturer in Drawing at the PennDesign School at the University of Pennsylvania. In the galleries on his website, you’ll find his recent work devoted to landscapes, architectural exteriors and room interiors. I find his room…

  • Dan McPharlin

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    Illustrator and designer Dan McPharlin gives little information about himself, his work or his clients on his website, which essentially just offers a download of a PDF portfolio from 2006 (also lacking in background information) and a link to his Flickr stream, which serves as his actual portfolio on the web. In the latter you…

  • The Athenaeum

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    The Athenaeum is essentially a virtual museum, in some ways similar to the Art Renewal Center (my post here) or the Web Gallery of Art (my post here), but with its own focus and strengths. As of this writing, The Athenaeum lists their online collection of art images at 43,339 (with 14 added in the…