Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2015

  • Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Dance Lesson

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    The Dance Lesson, Edgar Degas In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Downloadable high-res file on Wikipedia, as well as a descriptive page. This wonderfully brushy oil painting — that has some of the textural feeling of the artist’s pastels — is the first of a series of works on the theme of ballet dancers…

  • Rowland Hilder

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    Born in the U.S. to British parents, Rowland Hilder moved to England with his family at the age of 10, studied at Goldsmith’s College School of Art — where he eventually returned as a professor of drawing — and went on to become one of the UK’s most popular watercolor artists of the 20th century.…

  • Tang Wei Min (update)

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    Tang Wei Min is a Chinese painter from YongZhou, Hunan Province. He studied at the Art Department of Hunan Standard College and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He has received notice and awards in China, the U.S. and Canada. I first wrote about Tang’s work back in 2008. At the time, I noted that…

  • John Bauer (update)

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    John Bauer was a Swedish illustrator and painter, active around the turn of the 20th century, who I first wrote about back in 2006. Since then, I’m happy to report, resources for images of his charming, wonderfully realized illustrations have become more widely available. Though not as well known outside of Sweden as some of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Remington’s Small Oaks

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    Small Oaks, Frederic Remington Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; the original is in the Frederic Remington Art Museum, which only has reproductions of their collection in their store. We usually associate 19th century painter Frederic Remington with his depictions of the American West, cowboys, Native Americans and historical subjects. It’s…

  • Michael Robear

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    The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with…