Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2014

  • Eye Candy for today: Daniel Ridgway Knight fishing scene

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    Two Women Fishing, Daniel Ridgway Knight On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. Speaking — as I was in this Eye Candy post on Peder Mønsted, about paintings that look smoothly refined from a distance, but are wonderfully painterly in detail — here is a summer scene by Daniel Ridgway Knight. I’m long…

  • Anders Zorn’s etchings

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    In my post on the paintings of the terrific Swedish artist Anders Zorn back in March of this year, I promised to follow up with a post on his amazing etchings. I just love etchings, they have a line quality and visual charm unlike any other medium. There are three artists at the very top…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Mønsted Summer landscape

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    Summer landscape with river floodplain, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. 32×48 inches (81x121cm) I love the way paintings like this, and Mønsted’s in particular, look at first to be smoothly finished and refined, but reveal themselves on closer inspection to be wonderfully painterly.

  • Howard Brodie

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    Today is Memorial Day here in the U.S. Though primarily associated with a three-day weekend, barbecues and the unofficial start of summer, it is a day designated to honor those Americans who died while in military service. One way to do this, perhaps, is to develop a better understanding of the experiences of soldiers at…

  • Yvan Duque

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    Yvan Duque is a French illustrator, about whom I can find little information, other than a relation to a studio or group known as L’Encre Blanch (White Ink). Duque has a web presence in the form of a Tumblog, a presence on the L’Encre Blanch Behance gallery and a store on Etsy. The work, which…

  • A few paintings from 1879

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    I’m constantly astonished and delighted at what a cornucopia of art was the late 19th century. I don’t know of a period in which there was a greater array of disparate styles and movements. Had the preceding centuries not also been bountiful with wonderful work, I’d be tempted to call it a second Renaissance. I…