Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2012

  • Charles Santoso

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    Charles Santoso is a concept artist and art director based in Sydney, Australia and currently working for Animal Logic. In his spare time he takes on illustration projects and maintains a website, blog and Tumblr account on which he posts those projects, preliminaries, and his wonderful quirky and visually charming personal work. On the blog…

  • Ernest Biéler

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    Ernest Biéler was a Swiss artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose works incorporates elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism. Biéler studied in Paris at the académie Julian, returned to Switzerland and later moved back and forth between there and Paris, staying for years at a time. His painting style varied…

  • Kehinde Wiley

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    Kehinde Wiley, an artist originally from Los Angeles and now based in New York, paints striking, larger than life portraits that often incorporate intricate patterns. These can be naturalistic, as in repeated patterns of realistically rendered leaves or flowers, or decorative, sometimes borrowing from the baroque or Art Nouveau, but often reflecting the cultural heritage…

  • Americans in Florence

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    Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists is an exhibition at the Florence Palazzo Strozzi that looks to be amazingly good. Fortunately, someone let me know about this before it ended. Unfortunately, it closes in a few days (15 July, 2012). Fortunately, those in reach can still see the show. Unfortunately, I’m not one…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cecilia Beaux portrait

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    Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), by Cecilia Beaux On Google Art Project. Use zoom at lower right. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Just the colors in the suit are amazing! For more, see my previous post about Cecilia Beaux.

  • Valentin Serov

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    Though also an accomplished landscape painter, Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was known as a portraitist, and was undoubtedly one of the best of the 19th century (which is saying something) and perhaps the best portrait painter in Russian art. Originally from St. Petersberg, a Russian cultural center, Serov was the son of parents who were both…