Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2016

  • Georg Saal

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    Georg Eduard Otto Saal was a 19th century German landscape painter known in particular for his sweeping views of Norwegian mountains and fjords, portrayed with visceral attention to detail and dramatic lighting. Later in his career, he visited the Forest of Fontainebleau and was introduced to the work of the Barbizon Painters, resulting in change…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim portrait

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    Marriage Portrait of Charlotte de Rothschild, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. This beautiful portrait by 19th century German painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim is deliberately in the mold of Renaissaince portraits in many respects, but with a…

  • Alexander Votsmush (Shumtov)

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    Alexander Votsmush is a Crimean painter who works in watercolor. The name “Votsmush” is actually a pseudonym — a rearrangement of his actual name, “Shumtov” — that he adopted in his college days. Votsmush has a unique and very appealing approach to his watercolors — part graphic, part paintlike, with skewed verticals and horizontals, or…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer watercolor of cypress trees

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    The Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Samuel Palmer Original is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file on their site. You can also find a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. You can see —…

  • Walter Stanford

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    Walter Stanford is a painter and illustrator based in North Carolina. Stanford works in oil, acrylic and pastel, as well as in digital painting media (I believe the example images I’ve shown here are mostly if not all traditional media). His painting and pasted subjects include landscapes with an emphasis on rocky creeks and farming,…

  • John William North

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    Victorian painter John William North was known for his landscapes in both oil and watercolor. He secured work as an illustrator at an early age, but eventually abandoned his successful career in that field to pursue landscape painting full time. He was instrumental in the creation of a new, more durable linen-based watercolor paper, and…