Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2014

  • Hari & Deepti

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    Harikrishnan Panicker and Deepti Nair are an artist couple living and working in Denver, Colorado. Among their other projects, Hari & Deepti create cut paper shadow boxes, illuminated with battery powered lights. When photographed in darkness, their scenes take on a deep, theatrical feeling. Like all sculpture and dimensional work, photographs can only give a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Helen Searle still life

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    Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There is a zoomable version on the museum’s site along with an enlargement. The image above was taken from Wikimedia Commons. Though slightly out of focus, it’s larger as a downloadable file, and I think the more restrained color may actually…

  • Ben Sack

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    Benjamin Sack creates wonderfully complex large scale drawings of imaginary cities, often in detailed, map-like projections. There is a fascinating video on YouTube that steps through his process in filling out the drawing shown above, top (with detail). I particularly like his fun take on Van Gogh’s The Starry Night (above, bottom, with detail). In…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Roelofs’ Rainbow

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    The Rainbow (Evening of a Rainy Autumn Day), Willem Roelofs On Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Originai is in the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag. It’s difficult to paint a rainbow without succumbing to the picturesque, but 19th century Dutch painter Willem Roelofs accomplishes it brilliantly — by pushing the prismatic phenomenon into…

  • Jeremiah Goodman

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    Jeremiah Goodman is an illustrator known for his portrayals of room interiors, particularly those of the rich and famous, and/or those designed by well known interior designers. Goodman works in gouache or casein on illustration board. His solid draftsmanship and command of interior perspective provide a firm foundation for his loose, gestural application of color.…

  • Portraits of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon: Zorn vs. Sargent

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    Though I’ve never had the chance to see the original in person (it’s not always on display), I’ve admired this portrait of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (née Virginia Purdy) by Anders Zorn in the high-resolution images on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. The Met’s description of the painting is brief, and mentions that both…