Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2011

  • BP Portrait Award 2011, NPG, London

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    The images are frustratingly small and inconveniently presented, but the variety of approach among the exhibitors in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London is wonderful. You can always take the artist’s names to Google to search for more of their work. The exhibition is on view to 18 September, 2011…

  • Dripped

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    Dripped is a beautifully designed and realized short animation about an art thief with a distinctive “taste” in art. The 8 minute short was directed by Léo Verrier and brought to life by a team at the ChezEddy animation studio. [Via MetaFilter]

  • Ken Auster: Intellect and Passion

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    In my previous post about Ken Auster, a well known California painter of plein air landscapes, cityscapes, surfing scenes and restaurant interiors, I pointed out my disappointment in the frustratingly small images on his website. In particular, I found it unfortunate because the small images don’t convey the wonderful painterly brushwork and textural qualities that…

  • David Johnson

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    Illustrator David Johnson speaks in line. Wonderful contrasts of line, textural hatching, spotted blacks and occasionally color enliven his illustrations and incisive portraits. His compositions reveal a conscious arrangement of areas of the drawing as shapes — pictorial elements. Faces and figures, as well as background objects, are artfully arranged, and his layouts incorporate a…

  • Chester Dale Collection on About.com

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    Last March I wrote about a show called From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection that was on view at the time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The NGA’s page for the exhibit offered a slideshow of 24 images and a PDF of the exhibition brochure, though neither were as…

  • Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2011

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    Each year students from the graduating class of the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into teams that create short animations to be used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Each year in their minute to minute and a half segments…