Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2021

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Berkey spacecraft

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    Up in Space, John Conrad Berkey Image is from this article on the always superb One1more2time3’s Weblog (scroll down in the article). (See my post on production designer Hans Bacher’s amazing blog here. If you have not visited this blog, I will issue a Timesink Warning. It’s amazing.) This painting is a wonderful example of…

  • Jan Bogaerts

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    Every once in a while I come across a painter to whom I have the delightful reaction of “Wow! How did I not know about this one before?” That was my response when I stumbled across a painting by Johannes Jacobus Maria ‘Jan’ Bogaerts, a Dutch painter active in the early to mid 20th century,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jozef Van Lerius portrait

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    Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh, Jozef Van Lerius; oil on canvas, roughly30 x 25 inches (75 x 64 cm), link is to downloadable file page on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp, Belgium. Jozef Van Lerius was a 19th century Belgian painter who painted biblical and…

  • Carl Larsson

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    Carl Larsson was a Swedish illustrator and gallery artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also worked in oil and painted large frescos, Larsson was primarily known for his watercolors. With a deft hand and a light touch, he depicted family and home in particular. In many cases, he used…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez Melon and Pears

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    Still life with Melon and Pears, Luis Egidio Meléndez, oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 33 inches (63 x 85 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.. A wonderfully tactile and sensual still life by the 18th century…

  • Fred Wessel (update)

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    Fred Wessel is a contemporary artist who is inspired by the artists, materials, and techniques of the early Italian Renaissance. Working in the painstaking medium of egg tempera, Wessel paints jewel-like portraits, primarily of young women in somewhat classical poses. These are set off — as many paintings were in the early Renaissance — by…