Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2013

  • Yao Yao

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    Yao Yao is an artist and designer for online gaming. Yao Yao’s portfolio on Behance showcases work for several projects, particularly a personal project titled “Shanli”. [Via the Drawn archives] www.behance.net/yao-yao

  • Theodore Clement Steele

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    As the impact of French Impressionism spread to the U.S. in the late 19th century, groups of American artists influenced by the new style began to form in Old Lyme, CT, New Hope, PA, Boston, New York and California. Less well known were groups of American Impressionist artists in the middle of the country, like…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Springer townscape

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    De Zuiderhavendijk in Enkhuizen, Cornelis Springer In the Rijksmuseum. I just love these mid-19th century townscapes by Springer and some of his contemporaries. With their tactile renderings of brick and mortar, paving blocks and the assorted comings and goings of daily life, they are fascinating marvels of texture.

  • Women in the Act of Painting

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    Women in the Act of Painting is a terrific blog by Philadelphia painter Nancy Bea Miller that contains exactly what it says on the can. Miller features wonderful variety of periods and styles, gives background information on the artist — and where possible, the subject — with links to additional images on the web by…

  • New Van Gogh discovered

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    The Van Gogh Museum in Amstedam has confirmed the attribution of a painting titled Sunset at Montmajour, formerly thought to be a fake and long stored in a private attic, as a genuine Van Gogh. (Another fine addition to Not the usual Van Goghs.)

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anna Alma-Tadema watercolor

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    Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Library in Townshend House, London, Anna Alma-Tadema. On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, graphite on white paper. The original is in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Until I came across this piece on the Google Art Project, I didn’t even realize…