Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2012

  • Eye Candy for Today: Georges Michel Stormy Landscape

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    , Georges Michel. In the National Gallery, London — use fullscreen and zoom at right of image. Wonderful clouds from a French artist who was two steps back in the lineage of Impressionism.

  • Aaron Horkey

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    Aaron Horkey is an artist and designer from Minnesota whose intricate, richly detailed images can be both beautiful and disconcerting simultaneously. Horkey has designed and illustrated posters, album covers, skateboard graphics, magazine covers and clothing designs as well as creating graphics for reproduction as limited edition prints. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to have a dedicated…

  • Ivan Grohar

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    Though it's acceptance among critics and collectors was slow, the influence of the revolution of French Impressionism on other artists, and the spread of that impact to other countries in Europe and elsewhere was dramatic. In Slovenia, several artists picked up on the bright broken color, lively impasto application of paint and freedom from academic…

  • Edward Robert Hughes

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    Edward Robert Hughes was a Victorian painter at the periphery of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and was the nephew of the painter Arthur Hughes. Edward Hughes was for a time a studio assistant to William Holman Hunt, and is credited for having worked on some of the elder artist's best known works, including Lady of Shallot…

  • Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart

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    Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart is a new book edited by Steve White and with a foreward by Phillip J, Currie and an introduction by Scott D. Sampson. It is published by Titan Books, who were kind enough to send me a review copy. The premise of a book like this is relatively straightforward…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Across the Room

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    Across the Room, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Download arrow. See my previous posts on Edmund Tarbell, and here. He must have considered this a “sketch”, but… wow.