Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2016

  • Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Way still life

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    Bunch of Grapes, Andrew Way In the Walters Art Museum. Use “Explore Object” line in upper left of image for zoomable version, or Download link to right. Image can also be viewed in a zoomable version on Google Art Project. I haven’t seen the original, but my instincts tell me this image may be overly…

  • Henry Patrick Raleigh

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    Henry Patrick Raleigh was a classic American illustrator active in the early part of the 20th century. Raleigh is not as well known as many of the illustrators from the Golden Age and the mid-20th century eras that bracketed his career, and undeservedly so. I can think of few illustrators, or artists in general, whose…

  • Matteo Massagrande

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    Italian painter Matteo Massagrande finds fascination in the colors and textures of worn, apparently abandoned architectural interiors. These often open to glimpses of landscapes or seascapes beyond, and his secondary subject appears to be trees that are as contorted as the deliberately askew perspective in many of his rooms. In some of his interior compositions,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Autumn, Poplars, Éragny

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    Autumn, Poplars, Eragny; Camille Pissarro Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Denver Art Museum which also has a zoomable version (and, oddly, has another, somewhat different looking version of the image). This is Pissarro at the height of his classically Impressionist style. The…

  • August von Siegen

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    August von Siegen was a 19th century German painter who specialized in cityscapes of in the style of European and “Oriental” (Eastern Mediterranean) cities. Some are of recognizable places or landmarks, but most are fanciful, and he appears to blend real and imagined views. His emphasis is on the dramatic and exotic, so it’s no…

  • Piotr Jabłoński

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    Piotr Jabłoński, who also goes by the handle “nicponim”, is a Polish concept artist from Bialystok. His clients include Applibot, Inc., Cloud Share Inc., Evermotionvfx, Platige Image and VFX workshops. Jabłoński works digitally in Photoshop, but achieves nicely painterly look of natural media in his application of color. His subjects are often dark and moody,…