Month: December 2021
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2022!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve since 2006, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of American illustrator J. C. Leyendecker’s wonderful New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case from 1922. Leyendecker was the first to represent the new year as a baby (originally —…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard wash drawing
View of an Italianate park with figures, a villa behind, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, brown wash over brown ink lines and black chalk, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 47cm); link is to Sotheby’s past auction, large image here. In this beautifully sensitive drawing, 18th century French painter, draftsman ad printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who specialized in such…
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Christophe Vacher (update)
Christophe Vacher is a French painter and concept designer who I first wrote about back in 2007. He has worked for studios like Disney, Dreamworks, ad Universal, and his movie credits include titles like Dinosaur, Hercules, Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Enchanted and Dispicable Me. On his website, you will find examples his personal and professional work…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emelie Preyer Still Life with Grapes and Peaches
Still Life with Grapes and Peaches, Emelie Preyer, oil on canvas, roughly 7 x 9″ (17 x 23 cm) A wonderfully tactile still life from German painter Emelie Preyer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I love the she has emphasized imperfections, with the inclusion of the fly (or perhaps…
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John Anthony Park
John Anthony Park was British landscape painter active in the early to middle part of the 20th century. He focused largely on scenes in involving water, seascapes, harbor scenes, rivers and small streams. Water was a subject he handled quite adeptly, with attention to reflections, surface effects and characteristics of flow.
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Veronese Adorations
Paolo Veronese: Adoration of the Magi and Adoration of the Shepherds. Two beautiful paintings by 16th century master Paolo Veronese, though the kings seem to get a lot more attention here than the shepherds (much as in life, I suppose). Veronese did several paintings of the adorations; these are both from the Basilica dei Santi…