Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2015

  • Andrew Bonneau

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    Andrew Bonneau is an Australian artist currently living in New York, where he studied at the Grand Central Academy of Art. I was struck first by his still life paintings, in which he gives attention to delicate nuances of light in the presentation of his forms. He carries that same attention to the illumination of…

  • Gouache in the Wild, James Gurney

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    Unfairly overlooked among artists’ mediums, gouache is the neglected stepchild of watercolor — disdained by transparent watercolor purists (who I can’t help but picture as cartoon aristocrats, painting with their pinkie fingers extended), and looked at in confusion by oil and acrylic painters. (“Gouache? Isn’t that for designers? You know — illustrators?“) For those who…

  • Paul Bond

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    Born in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently living in California, where he studied art, Paul Bond brings to his light-filled style of Magic Realism an obvious affection for the reality-teasing twists of Magritte, and a fascination with certain repeated themes. In particular, he finds ongoing variations on the theme of piled rocks, rendered with a tactile…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June

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    Flaming June, Frederic Leighton The link is to a file on Wikimedia Commons. (I think the image is over-saturated, and I’ve taken the liberty of correcting it somewhat in the images above.) The original is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, though the museum doesn’t appear to have their collection online.…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2015

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    Each year the graduating animation students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into five teams, who produce short (about 1 minute) animations that are used to introduce each day’s programs at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in mid-June. Each year, the Goeblins students refresh my faith in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up

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    Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, along with a page devoted to the painting. The original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files. As much as Homer is noted for his watercolors…