Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2014

  • Matthew Cook (update)

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    In many ways, all art is about selection. Whether representational or non-representational, imaginary or abstracted from reality — visual art is about choices of what to show and what not to show. So, for that matter, is writing, music and all other forms of communication and expression. Ever since bottom-line mandates turned “news” into “infotainment”,…

  • Sargent’s portrait of Roosevelt

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    Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent Today is “Presidents Day” here in the U.S. — originally “Washington’s Birthday”, but now an all-purpose Washington and Lincoln birthday holiday, marked primarily by aggressively advertised sales of mattresses and cars. (Maybe that says something about U.S. presidents, I don’t know.) Though perhaps not one of Sargent’s most memorable…

  • François Guerin

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    François Guerin is a French UI designer, art director and digital artist who likes to paint and sketch on his mobile devices, using Brushes for iPhone and Procreate for iPad. You can see his work in his Flickr set, a smaller set on Coroflot and prints on society6. [Via @ParkaBlogs]

  • Eye Candy for Today: Giovanni Boltraffio portrait

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    Portrait of a boy as saint Sebastian, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Though the subject of this portrait by Giovanni Boltraffio may look feminine at first glance, the experts assure us by the title that it is, in fact, a boy. It might be pointed out, however, that the experts also attributed the painting to Leonardo da…

  • Architectural alphabet, Antonio Basoli

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    Though perhaps not as clever and imaginative as the Landscape alphabet by L.E.M. Jones — that I recently highlighted here on Lines and Colors — this architectural alphabet by Italian artist Antonio Basoli is nonetheless well done and amusing. Basoli published his Pictorial Alphabet, or, a collection of pictorial thoughts composed of objects beginning with…

  • Tissot’s Kathleen Newton

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    In 1875, French painter and printmaker James Jacques-Joseph Tissot met divorcee Kathleen Newton, and fell for her head-over-brushes. They had a scant seven years together before he was devastated by her death from tuberculosis in 1882. During that time, which Tissot described as the happiest in his life, he painted and drew Newton and her…