Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy

    The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadble file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Modern Art, NY. This was at one time (and probably still is) one of the most widely reproduced images in all of art. In most of those reproductions, however, you will find the colors…

  • Duet, Glen Keane

    Renowned animator Glen Keane, best known for his character animation for Disney feature films like Aladdin, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Tangled, has been working with the Google Advanced Technology and Projects Group on one of their new series of interactive animations. In the process, he has created preliminary hand-drawn animation…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cuyp’s Maas at Dordrecht

    The Maas at Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Cuyp’s 1650 portrayal of the Maas River at his hometown of Dordrecht, during a historic gathering of a military force in 1646. See my post on Aelbert Cuyp.

  • Vladimir Orlovsky

    Vladimir Donatovitch Orlovsky (alternately: Volodymyr Orlovsky) was a Ukrainian landscape painter active at the turn of the 20th century. He is considered one of the major proponents of Ukrainian landscape painting. Orlovsky studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts and painted in France, Germany and Italy, as well as in Russia and his…

  • Father and Daughter

    Beautiful and subtle, Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short (8 minutes) about a daughter remembering her father. Directed, drawn and animated Michael Dudok de Wit, with assistance by Arjan Wilschut and Lisa Flather. There is an interview with Michael Dudok de Wit here. The film uses minimalist design, softly rendered with touches…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough chalk study

    Study of a Lady, Thomas Gainsborough In the Morgan Library and Museum. Image is also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. A beautifully economical and gestural chalk drawing by Gainsborough; in white and black chalk on colored, prepared paper.