Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2012

  • Janet Ternoff

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    Self taught New York artist Janet Ternoff finds great fascination in the facades and interiors of buildings. She works in a realistic style, at times with considerable detail. She works in a range of sizes, from 8×10 to considerably larger. Her series of exteriors of bars, stores and restaurants feel in a way as if…

  • Carel Fabritius

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    Carel Fabritius was a Dutch painter whose adopted name comes from the latin for carpenter, or if more broadly used, craftsman. Fabritius studied in the the studio of Rembrandt, and is generally considered to be Rembrandt’s most talented pupil, and the only one to really break free of the master’s influence and develop his own…

  • Anthony S. Waters

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    Anthony S. Waters is a California based concept artist and illustrator who does work for the gaming industry. He has worked with companies like Sony On-Line, DNA Productions, Lucasfilm, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Hasbro, among others. Waters works in both traditional and digital media, and often works with a bright palette, though at times almost…

  • Met Museum’s American Wing reopens

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    The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has been undergoing extensive renovations, reopened this week, with a revitalized showcase for one of the best and most extensive collections of American art in the country. For those who can’t visit in person, I’ll take the opportunity to point out again…

  • Rob Gonsalves (update)

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    Canadian magic realist Rob Gonsalves likes to portray the juxtapsotion of two differing but related points of view. These are often presented in scenes in which objects gradually morph through a series of similar shapes into something else entirely, and compositions in which two different aspects of the same scene are viewed at an entirely…

  • Stop PIPA and SOPA

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    If you stopped by Lines and Colors yesterday, January 18, you may have noticed that Lines and Colors had gone dark, along with a significant number of other sites, in protest, and to raise awareness of the “anti-piracy” internet censorship bills looming in the U.S. Congress. If you didn’t happen to stop by yesterday, but…