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Month: June 2015

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres’ portraits of Madame Moitessier

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    Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, National Gallery of Art, DC Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The National Gallery, London When asked to paint Madame Moitessier, Ingres — who was at a later point in his career in which he was less inclined to take on portrait commissions — initially refused. On meeting her, however, he was struck…

  • Ben Blatt

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    Benn Blatt is a dimension-hopping xenobiologist/dreamscape botanical artist based, perhaps fittingly, in Brooklyn, NY. Blatt takes natural forms of flora and fauna — both real and wildly imaginary — bits of architecture, sculptural elements, jewelry and metalware; filters them through his fascination with 15th and 16th century masters like Bosch and Brueghel, 20th century Dadaists…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alberto Pasini’s Market Day in Constantinople

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    Market Day in Constantinople, Alberto Pasini Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Berkshire Museum (no full image). Pasini was known for his Orientalist paintings of locations and subjects in the eastern Mediterranean. Here he renders not only the exotic architecture in the city…

  • Sean Phillips

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    Sean Phillips is a UK comics artist and illustrator known for his comics work and covers for titles like Fatale, Hellblazer, Criminal, Incognito, Marvel Zombies, and many others. He has worked for most of the major comics publishers in the US and UK, as well as for illustration clients like Twentieth Century Fox, Sony, Maxim…

  • Jeremy Mann

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    Jeremy Mann is a painter based in the San Francisco area with a fascinating approach — or more accurately, range of approaches — to his primary subjects of figures, still life and cityscapes. Mann can paint in a refined, straightforward style of realism, particularly in his still life paintings, and also take his cityscape compositions…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Schetky’s Battle of Trafalgar

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    The Battle of Tragalgar, John Christian Schetky Link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.   My apologies to those of you who have had difficulty accessing Lines and Colors in the last week or so, particularly in the last few days. The…