Month: December 2012
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Fred Lynch
Fred Lynch is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Massachusetts who is also a Professor of Illustration at Montserrat College of Art and a member of the Illustration Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design. His illustration clients include Random House, Viking Penguin and the Atlantic Monthly, among others. You will find a selection…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s Merced River
Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Albert Bierstadt. When looking at Bierstadt’s large canvasses, I always see multiple smaller compositions within the whole. I’m also constantly delighted at how painterly Bierstadt’s works can be when viewed close up. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link, then zoom or download arrow.
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Daniel Merriam
Originally from Maine, Daniel Merriam paints fantastical characters and intricate scenes of imagined architecture, as well as children’s fantasy-tinged themes of trees and moons with faces, bizarre creatures and elaborate tableaux of all of them together. His fantasized takes on Victorian architecture are at times ornate to the point of the Baroque. He often casts…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan van der Heyden View in Cologne
A View in Cologne, Jan van der Heyden (possibly with help on the figures by Adriaen van de Velde). The structure on top of the cathedral (unfinished at the time) is a crane. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. I haven’t seen the original…
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ArtBabble relaunch
Longtime Lines and Colors readers may have noticed my tendency to be cranky about art museums that are seemingly without clue in their approach to using their website to best advantage (though I take great delight in pointing out those who are using them well, as in the case of the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet still life
Chrysanthemums, Claude Monet. Many who are fond of Monet’s Impressionist landscapes are unfamiliar with his still life paintings. A number of these were of floral subjects. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under image, then use zoom controls or download arrow. Notice the colors in the table top.