Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2016

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ramon Casas’ Plein air

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    Plein air, Ramon Casas Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona. Casas was a Catalan Spanish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known primarily for his portraits. I believe the “plein air” of the…

  • Charles Joseph Grips

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    Charles Joseph Grips was a Dutch born painter who spent much of his career in Belgium. Grips was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but his subject matter of quiet domestic interiors carries forward the flavor of Dutch genre painting of the 17th century. Some of his compositions are particularly in the…

  • Children’s Book Illustrations from British Library

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    As part of the huge trove of public domain images being posted on Flicker — which I reported in 2013 — the British Library has assemble a large collection of children’s book illustrations. As is often the case with these kinds of large scale image resources, best results come from a bit of patience and…

  • Elizabeth Rickert

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    Elizabeth Rickert is a New Mexico based artist who paints landscapes, water gardens, florals, fruits and birds’ nests, but in particular intimate compositions of grasses and other low-to-the-ground plants. These are rendered with sensitive detail and infused with gentle light, giving them in inviting, luminous quality. Her paintings are larger in scale than you might…

  • Illuminating Tarbell

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    “Illuminating Tarbell” is the title of an exhibition of the work of the terrific American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell that is on view at Discover Portsmouth, in Portsmouth NH until June 3, 2016. It features a concurrent exhibit of contemporary painters working in the tradition of Tarbell. There is a page with images from the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Falls at Toltec Gorge

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    Falls at Toltec Gorge, Thomas Moran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; 1000 Museums has version online that you can download here; original is in the Oklahoma City Museum (no collections online). When Moran turns his Turner-influenced eye to the rough textures of the American landscape, the results are usually amazing. I…