Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2011

  • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

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    For as long as I’ve been visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art there has been a small painting called “Head of Christ” (image above, top) in the museum’s John G. Johnson collection of European Art (larger but somewhat oversaturated version here). It is a small but strikingly beautiful painting, 14 x 12 inches (36 x…

  • Cartoon Color Wheel

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    Here’s a fun notion; the Slate Magazine blog, Culturebox, has put together an interactive color wheel of cartoon characters arranged by their hue (and, correctly enough, by intensity, as indicated by our grayish friends at the center of the wheel). In the original, you can mouse over the characters for identification. [Via Cartoon Brew]

  • Femke Hiemstra

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    Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra paints her richly detailed and wonderfully textural paintings of animals (anthropomorphic and otherwise), odd characters and fantastical landscapes on found objects. Her odd shaped “canvases” are the covers of old books, wooden holy water fonts and antique wooden panels. Her mixed media pieces also include typography, sometimes completing the illusion that…

  • Augustin Lesage

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    Augustin Lesage was a French painter associated with “outsider art” (L’Art Brut), art created outside of normal cultural definitions. A coal miner from the age of 14, Lesage supposedly heard a voice deep in the mine say “One day you’ll be a painter!”, followed by a succession of other voices, some of which he took…

  • 1923 aka Heaven and 1925 aka Hell by Max Hattler

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    1923 aka Heaven (images above, top five) and 1925 aka Hell (above, bottom 5) are two animated film by Max Hattler that were inspired by two paintings by French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. The two paintings are both named A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World, one painted in 1923 (above, middle left) and one…

  • 1896 Paintings on Wikimedia Commons

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    Lets set the Wayback Machine and take a walk through the year 1896 by way of the Wikimedia Commons page for that category. Yes, the image quality is uneven, but there are gems to be found, and this is just a selection from the introductory page for this category. You can drill down into subcategories,…