Month: September 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh View of Paris
View of Paris, Vincent van Gogh. Every time you think you know Van Gogh, he turns around and surprises you. From the Van Gogh Museum. On Google Art Project.
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Dinotopia: Art, Science and Imagination at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in CT
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will not be surprised that I am an admirer the work of illustrator/writer/painter James Gurney. (Let’s see.. beautifully painted illustration with influences from great 19th century artists and Golden Age illustrators, fantastical adventure stories with lushly imaginative settings, Hudson River valley landscape painting and plein air painting, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Maude Adams
Maude Adams as Joan of Arc, Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha. Hearing The Voice. Oil on canvas. Mucha designed the frame as well. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under the image and then use zoom or download arrow.
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The Colored Pencil Society of America
Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist’s medium that doesn’t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like. In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers…
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Eye Candy for Today: Luca Forte still life
Still Life with Grapes and other Fruit, Luca Forte. On Google Art Project.
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Ralph Heimans
Originally from Austalia and now based in Paris, portrait artist Ralph Heimans has received much attention for his striking portraits of musician and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy (image above, top three) and Princess Mary of Denmark (fourth and fifth down), among others. He has recently accepted a commission to paint an official portrait of the Queen…