Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2013

  • Three paintings of asparagus

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    In contrast to the elaborate still life arrangements common to his late seventeenth century contemporaries, Dutch painter Adriaen Coort is noted for his simple still life subjects. His simply staged but striking Still life with Asparagus, depicting a bunch of plump white asparagus on the corner of a table (images above, top, with detail) is…

  • Stewart Burgess White

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    I met watercolorist Stewart White at the recent Wayne Plein Air Festival here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where he was drawn to the architectural elements of the town’s 19th century train station. White’s background in architectural illustration gives his work a solid geometric underpinning and lends his loose application of washes a pleasing graphic strength. White…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Pave de Chailly

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    Pave de Chailly, Claude Monet An early painting by Monet of the road from Chailly to Fontainebleau, painted prior to the development of the broken color Impressionist style for which he is best known. I love this period of Monet’s work. On WikiPaintings. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. Compare this to another canvas titled…

  • Chris Sanders

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    Illustrator, cartoonist, animator and director Chris Sanders is best known as co-director of Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. Before leaving Disney Studios to work for DreamWorks Animation, Sanders worked as a story artist on The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, and was…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bilibin’s Vasilisa

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    Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin (larger but darker here) One of Bilibin’s wonderful series of illustrations for the classic Russian folktale.

  • Oil Painters of America National Exhibition 2013

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    Oil Painters of America is a national organization of artists dedicated to representational art. Each year, among other regional exhibitions and events, they conduct a juried exhibition. This year’s exhibition, consisting of some 200 works, is currently on display at the Insight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas until June 17, 2013. There is a page devoted…