Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Back from Tech Hell

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    You may have noticed several delays and glitches in the display of Lines and Colors in the last couple of weeks (or longer), as I’ve struggled with a number of technical issues behind the scenes. Hopefully, they are now resolved. There is a new design in place; it’s a bit rough and incomplete at the…

  • Ann Kraft Walker

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    Largely self-taught, Texas painter Ann Kraft Walker started out in a folk art style, but eventually evolved into a refined realist approach for her still life and portrait subjects. Since 2010, she has supplemented her study with several workshops, and has been featured in a number of juried exhibitions and art magazines. Walker’s still life…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bargue’s Bashi-Bazouk

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    A Bashi-Bazouk, Charles Bargue In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Jean-Léon Gérôme, his contemporary and collaborator in the well known drawing course that bears his name, Bargue’s paintings were often of Orientalist subjects. A Bashi-Bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman Army. Bargue has here rendered the objects with which he is surrounded…

  • Sorolla and America in San Diego

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    Sorolla and America, an exhibition of works by the brilliant Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida — that I reported on in 2013 when it was at the Meadows Museum — is now at the San Diego Museum of Art, where it will be on display until August 26, 2014. Not to be missed. Unfortunately,…

  • Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition

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    I received a review copy from Dover Books of James Gurney’s Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition, the newest in the series of 20th anniversary editions of Gurney’s contemporary classics. Ostensibly aimed at kids and adolescents, but delightful for adults as coffee-table art books, the series has been getting beautiful “20th Anniversary” treatment at the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Streeton’s Autumn

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    Autumn, Arthur Streeton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of Ballarat. While those of us in the northern hemisphere have been basking in the vibrant blooming of Spring, our friends in the southern hemisphere have been enjoying the russet browns, ochres and siennas of Autumn. For more on the artist, see my…