Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2011

  • Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website

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    One thing I can never seem to get enough of is high resolution images of great art, and it seems like more and more are cropping up each day — one of the little gifts bestowed upon us by the globe spanning lattice of zooming bits we affectionately call the web. Peacay, author of the…

  • Shy the Sun (update)

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    Back in 2006 I noticed the delightfully idiosyncratic work of a South African artist and illustrator named Ree Treweek (images above, top). In the time since, I have followed with fascination as Treweek and her partners Jannes Hendrikz and Marcus Smit, collectively known as The Blackheart Gang, produced a strikingly original and truly strange animation…

  • David Gray

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    David Gray paints elegant, refined still life paintings and beautifully realized portraits in the classical realist tradition. In both his portraits and still life paintings, he evokes a feeling of stillness and contemplation, though in the portraits that feeling is often pierced by the quiet but intense aliveness projected by his subjects. Similarly, Gray works…

  • Manabu Ikeda

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    Though I doubt they were intended to be so, the striking works of Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda, seen at this juncture, can seem chillingly prophetic. The structures, shapes and waves of objects in his work are portrayed as enormous in scale, as revealed by the astonishingly complex textural elements of countless smaller items of which…

  • Duane Keiser’s Peel

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    I just love this. Back in December of 2004, Virginia based painter and teacher Duane Keiser originated the phenomenon that has come to be known as “painting a day“, in which painter/bloggers paint a small work and post it to a blog each day. He painted a small painting everyday for about two years, and…

  • Mucha’s The Slav Epic

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    Most people who are familiar in passing with Art Nouveau artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (see my recent post on Alphonse Mucha on Gallica Digital Library) are not aware of his body of work that is in a very different style. The most important and striking examples of this are a series of 20 very large…