Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2015

  • Christoffel Pierson

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    Christoffel Pierson was a 17th century Dutch painter who specialized in town scenes, portraits and, in particular, trompe l’œil still life. Trompe l’œil (fool the eye) is a style of realist still life in which the artist attempts to deceive the viewer into believing that the painted object is physically real. In Pierson’s paintings, the…

  • Je Suis Charlie, Charlie Hebdo: Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut, Charb (Stephane Charbonnier), Tignous (Bernard Velhac)

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    Among the 12 dead and 11 wounded in today’s cowardly and loathsome attack on the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were four cartoonists: Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut, Charb (Stephane Charbonnier) and Tignous (Bernard Velhac). I dug up what I could quickly find on the four cartoonists, and have included relevant…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Robert Blum’s silk merchant

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    The Silk Merchant, Japan; Robert Frederick Blum Link is to Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Cincinnati Art Museum. After Japan opened relations with Europe and the U.S. in the mid 19th century, many European and American artists were dramatically influenced by imported Japanese art and culture; but…

  • Darcie Peet

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    Darcie Peet is a painter who divides her time between the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and the Sonora Desert in Arizona, painting her impressions of both in crisp, painterly oils. Peet pays particular attention to the character of light as it plays across her landscapes, whether muted or bright, often revealing itself in bands of…

  • Kent Barton (update)

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    Kent Barton is an illustrator who works in scratchboard, as well as linocut and woodcut. His images carry echoes of graphic processes used in illustration in the past, while maintaining a very up to date sensibility. At times he adds color to his line work, applied with a light touch and an eye to keeping…

  • Hollis Dunlap

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    Hollis Dunlap is a painter based in Connecticut, who take influences from the master so the past, but brings incorporates them into an approach with an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. Though he also paints landscape and still life subjects, Dunlap’s primary focus if figurative work. His compositions in all cases explore the expression of light in…