Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Sorolla and America in Madrid

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    Sorolla and America is an exhibition of the work of the great Spanish painter related to his travels here in the US. It was organized jointly by the Meadows Museum in Dallas, The San Diego Museum of Art Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid. After its run at the Meadows Museum and the San Diego Museum of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s astronomer

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    Astronomer by Candlelight, Gerrit Dou On Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. A small gem (roughly 13×8″, 33x20cm) of 17th century chiaroscuro by an under-appreciated Dutch master. For more, see this page on Essential Vermeer, and my previous Eye Candy post on a Gerrit Dou genre…

  • Joshua Eiten

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    Joshua Eiten’s Tumblr blog states that he is a communication design student at Carnegie Mellon University. If that’s still the case, his age is belied by the strong drawing, accomplished compositions and confident digital rendering of his concept art and illustration pieces. His blog is set in one of those awkward Tumblr arrangements in which…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Prud’hon’s Portrait of Constance Mayer

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    Portrait of Constance Mayer, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon On WikiArt, large version here. Original is in the collection of the Louvre, though I can’t find a listing for it on the museum’s new website. I had the pleasure of seeing this drawing in person at a show of Prud’hon’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art some…

  • Stephen Biesty

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    Ever since I was old enough to stare goggle eyed at them in children’s books, or in my fathers Popular Science magazines, I have always loved cross-sections, exploded views and cut-away illustrations. There’s something magical about seeing the inside and outside of a complex structure or vehicle simultaneously, like penetrating the surface of reality with…

  • Michael Godfrey

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    Michael Godfrey is a painter based in the D.C. area who at one point became fascinated with the landscape and mountains of the western U.S. His range of subject matter includes both the eastern and western mountains, their related fields and countryside, and particularly their creeks and streams. These he renders with great attention to…