Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2015

  • Heinrich Böhmer

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    Heinrich Böhmer was a German landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I can find little information about him and only a few sources of images, but those I’ve encountered are wonderful. Böhmer’s muted, subtle forest interiors, streams and pathways put me in mind of Peder Mørk Mønsted, though I don’t…

  • Eye Candy For Today: Gilbert Stuart portraits

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    Portraits of Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes, and Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot, by Gilbert Stuart Both paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the images on the museum’s pages. 18th century painter Gilbert Stuart is an artist whose historical stature suffers from “greatest hits” syndrome. His portraits…

  • Kirsten Zirngibl

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    Kirsten Zirngibl is a concept artist and illustrator based in San Diego. Zirngibl’s subjects can involve both technological and biological forms, in either case often intricately rendered. She often makes interesting use of light sources, contrasting bright sources with darkly portrayed environments that allow the viewer to project their imagination into them. Her website,

  • Simon Addyman

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    Originally from England, Simon Addyman is a landscape painter now living and working in California. Addyman walks a line between suggestion and representation, and apparently feels quite comfortable on either side. His textural, often brusquely applied brush marks fade and weave into one another, creating movement and coalescing into the forms of his subjects as…