Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2012

  • New Rijksmuseum website

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    The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the world’s great museums, with a collection rich in famous masterpieces from the likes of Rembrandt and Vermeer, as well as hundreds of lesser known treasures. The museum’s website, like many museum websites, long left something to be desired. Though numerous images were available, many in high resolution,…

  • Peter Fiore

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    Peter Fiore is a landscape painter originally from New Jersey and now based in northeastern Pennsylvania. Fiore’s landscapes are marvels of balanced contrasts of hue and value. Light is an actor here, flitting across the canvas, heightening passages of landscape and foliage, spotlighting the trunks of trees or strands of grass, and leaving other passages…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Titian

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    Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). Gods, mortals, action, romance, leopards, snakes and severed deer heads! (Not to mention a beautifully dramatic landscape and delicate foreground flowers rendered with botanical accuracy.) [Addendum: not to mention lots of genuine Ultramarine Blue, made from a semi-precious stone more costly by weight than gold. See the full…

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art on Google Art Project

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    The already amazing Google Art Project, which brings us beautiful zoomable full-screen high-resolution images of highlights from many of the world’s great museums, continues to get more amazing as more museums are added to the list. This is particularly valuable as many of the museums featured do not provide large images of works in their…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hubert Robert cave

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    The Mouth of a Cave by Hubert Robert. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow.

  • Aron Wiesenfeld

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    Aron Wiesenfeld’s paintings, though not actually narrative in the usual sense, carry an implied a narrative, a suggestion that you are glimpsing a scene for which relevant events are happening, or have happened, outside the scope of what is seen. In scenes that carry an atmosphere of isolation, his subjects, often young women, stare contemplatively…