Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2012

  • Franz Jüttner

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    Franz Jüttner was a German illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist about whom there seems to be little available information on the net (at least that I can find without knowledge of the German language). Unfortunately there are not many images either, but the ones that are available, primarily his illustrations from a well regarded German edition…

  • Richard Bunkall

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    In a fascinating series, Pasadena artist Richard Bunkall explored juxtapositions of building facades with airships, locomotives, ships and whales, along with quotes from Mellville and other sources. Older series focus on movie theater marquees and building faces, as well as more straightforward cityscapes. All are rendered with Bunkall’s wonderfully textural approach, in which a muted…

  • Eyvind Earle website

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    Since I last wrote about remarkable artwork of ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle back in 2009, the long promised EvyindEarle.com website has been published. Though navigation is somewhat clunky, this is now a good resource on Earle, with a large selection of his work. Many of the serigraphs…

  • Justin Gerard’s Silmarillion at Gallery Nucleus

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    The wonderful fantasy art of Justin Gerard, who I have written about previously, is on display this month at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, as part of an exhibition dedicated to his visual interpretation of J. R. R. Tolken’s The Silmarillion. The show features numerous watercolors and drawings. You can also find a selection of…

  • The Painterly Voice, Pennsylvania Impressionism

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    Pennsylvania Impressionism is a term rather loosely applied to a group of late 19th and early 20th century painters who lived and worked in and around the artist colony that existed at the time in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey, small towns that straddle either side of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia.…

  • Norman Rockwell Museum on Google Art Project

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    Wow, am I ever enjoying the recently updated Google Art Project (as I reported recently). Despite my own Time Sink Warning, I’ve been pulled back here way too often. I found this morning that among the cornucopia of art from the newly added museums is the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. The museum houses not…