Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2020

  • Gilbert Gorski

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    Gilbert Gorski is a Pennsylvania based artist who is also a practicing architect. Gorski’s paintings diverge from his architectural background and focus on natural subjects. His approach is a fascinating variation on techniques employed by the impressionist and Post-Impressionist Pointillist painters, using thousands of tiny daubs of paint that blend visually to create images that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Lars Hertervig landscape

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    The Tarn, Lars Hertervig, oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 18 inches (63 x 46 cm); link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig portrays the landscape surrouding a “tarn” (a glacially formed lake) in a…

  • Artists’ views of Venice #2

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    This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Singer Sargent, Anna Richards Brewster, James Whistler, William Merritt Chase,…

  • Artists’ views of Venice

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    Venice is a city from another time, and perhaps even from another world. Seeming to exist in sheer defiance of the intrusion of rising sea levels, sinking pilings, floods of tourists and the looming mountains of monstrous cruise ships, Venice is a shimmering mirage of transcendent beauty, an example of what’s possible when a city…

  • R. Kikuo Johnson

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    Originally from Hawaii, R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator and comics artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His illustration clients include Apple, Random House, Penguin Books, Marvel Comics, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the New York times, among others. Johnson maybe best known for his wonderful covers for The New Yorker.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Mariana in the South

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    Mariana in the South, John William Waterhouse; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 29 inches (114 x 74 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. John William Waterhouse — who is often described as a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but might be more accurately, if awkwardly, classified as a Post Pre-Raphaelite —…