Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2013

  • Martin Rico

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    I first encountered Spanish artist Martin Rico y Ortega, known more simply as Martin Rico, in the form of his beautiful pen and ink drawings, reproduced in a volume titled: Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen: A Classic Survey of the Medium and Its Masters. Rico’s pen drawings, like his paintings, were often of architectural subjects,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Corvi’s Allegory of Painting

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    Allegory of Painting, Domenico Corvi Corvi, an Italian Baroque painter, has given us a delicate rendered pean to the artist’s pursuit. The mask on her head represents the illusionistic qualities of art. In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Explore Object” in the upper left of the image for zoomable view.

  • Dmitri Danish

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    Ukrainian artist Dmitri Danish was encouraged by his parents to take up painting at an early age, and was accepted to the Kharkiv State Art College at the age of 15. He followed up with later study at the Deapartment fo Fine Art at Kharkiv State University and achieved membership to the Union of Ukrainian…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2013

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    Each year my faith that the future of hand-drawn animation is in good hands is renewed by the graduating class of Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris, from which five teams of students create short (one minute) animations used to introduce the five days of events at the Annecy International Festival…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Spinner

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    The Spinner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; larger version here Somehow, despite my fondness for nineteenth century academic art, I can’t get all goggle-eyed and worshipful of Bouguereau the way they do over at the Art Renewal Center. Neither do I jump on the bandwagon of reviling him as facile and shallow, or as an enemy of the…

  • The joys of a limited “three primary” palette

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    I was struck yesterday by a post on the blog of Jeffery Hayes about his experimentation with the limited palette recommended by Mark Carder in his method of learning to paint. Hayes is a still life painter who uses a wide palette of up to 70 paints, and produces quite beautiful results from his choices.…