Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2014

  • Mikhail Klodt

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    Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (sometimes “Clodt”) was a 19th century Russian landscape painter and a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”), the group of Russian painters that broke away from the Academy to carry out their own traveling exhibitions. His work is not as well known here in the US as that of his…

  • 365 Postcards for Ants, Lorraine Loots

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    365 Postcards for Ants was a yearlong project, from January 1 to December 31 or 2013, in which South African artist Lorraine Loots set out to paint one miniature painting per day. Along the way, her process evolved into a kind of collaboration with visitors to her site who would “reserve” a painting, and suggest…

  • A. Wilkenfeld

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    A. wilkenfeld is an illustrator and character designer, originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in New Orleans. Aside from that, I can find little biographical information. To my eye, Wilkenfeld’s lively, fluid drawings show an admiration for the work of great caricaturists like Al Hirschfeld, along with an affection for early 20th century magazine…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted forest landscape

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    Skogslandskap, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original, but I know it passed through Bukowski’s Auctions in the recent past, so I assume it’s in a private collection (not mine — sigh). I think the title can be translated as “forest landscape”. I never tire of Mønsted’s beautifully…

  • David Cheifetz

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    Painter David Cheifetz approaches his subjects — primarily still life but also cityscape and figurative— with enthusiastic use of value, color contrasts and painterly texture. You may have seen still life by various artists, notably David Leffel and some of his students, in which objects are made luminous by carrying their dominant color into the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo’s Banquet of Cleopatra

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    The Banquet of Cleopatra, Giambattista Tiepolo On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. In telling Pliny’s story of the competition between Cleopatra and Marc Antony to put on the most extravagant feast — the culmination of which is Cleopartra dissolving one of her priceless…