Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2014

  • A few highlights from the 1660s

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    Wikimedia Commons (see my Lines and Colors post here), the huge, mostly public domain image repository associated with Wikipedia, has a nice aspect to its organization that lets you view a broad variety of art organized by year, decade or century. These are just a few paintings from the (apparently splendiferous) decade of the 1660s.…

  • My latest articles on painting for Answers.com

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    I’m continuing to write articles on painting for Painting.Answers.com, some on materials and techniques, some on painters and paintings from history. Here are my most recent articles, the first three of which use a new slideshow format. John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X”: Masterpiece and Scandal Beautiful Highlights from the History of Watercolor Painting…

  • Super Bowl art bet 2014

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    In what should have been an annual tradition, but was apparently dropped for a time, art museums in the two U.S. cities sending teams to the Super Bowl are again engaging in an art loan wager. If the Seattle Seahawks win, the Denver Art Museum will loan “The Bronco Buster”, a sculpture by Frederick Remington,…

  • Stock Schlueter

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    Stock Schlueter is a painter from northern California, who excels at capturing the light and atmosphere of that region, as well as more exotic locations from his travels. Previously a watercolor artist, Schlueter switched to oils, and works both on location and in the studio for his landscapes. His website has a portfolio of both…

  • The fleeting art of Andres Amador

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    “Ars longa, vita brevis”, goes the phrase (Art is long, life is short), but then, some art is much more temporary than most. The art of Andres Amador, though ostensibly made of “archival materials”, lasts only until the next high tide. Amador takes his rake to the beaches of northern California and creates carefully controlled…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Corot landscape near Volterra

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    A View near Volterra, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Wow. I just love these direct, observational landscapes from Corot — filled with light and the feeling of immediate atmosphere. You can see why the Impressionists thought so highly of him. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click…