Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Ben Sack

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    Benjamin Sack creates wonderfully complex large scale drawings of imaginary cities, often in detailed, map-like projections. There is a fascinating video on YouTube that steps through his process in filling out the drawing shown above, top (with detail). I particularly like his fun take on Van Gogh’s The Starry Night (above, bottom, with detail). In…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Roelofs’ Rainbow

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    The Rainbow (Evening of a Rainy Autumn Day), Willem Roelofs On Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Originai is in the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag. It’s difficult to paint a rainbow without succumbing to the picturesque, but 19th century Dutch painter Willem Roelofs accomplishes it brilliantly — by pushing the prismatic phenomenon into…

  • Jeremiah Goodman

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    Jeremiah Goodman is an illustrator known for his portrayals of room interiors, particularly those of the rich and famous, and/or those designed by well known interior designers. Goodman works in gouache or casein on illustration board. His solid draftsmanship and command of interior perspective provide a firm foundation for his loose, gestural application of color.…

  • Portraits of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon: Zorn vs. Sargent

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    Though I’ve never had the chance to see the original in person (it’s not always on display), I’ve admired this portrait of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (née Virginia Purdy) by Anders Zorn in the high-resolution images on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. The Met’s description of the painting is brief, and mentions that both…

  • April Fool-the-eye Day: trompe l’oeil by Andrea Pozzo

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    Instead of a fake post, or some similar nonsense, let’s celebrate April Fool’s Day with a nice bit of “fool the eye” (trompe l’oeil) by Andrea Pozzo. This is his false dome for the Jseuit Church in Vienna, a fresco painted on a gently curved surface on the ceiling. This is essentially a anamorphic projection,…

  • More “not the usual Van Goghs”

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    I’ve written before about how most book publishers tend to take a safe, “greatest hits” approach to publishing works by Vincent van Gogh, leaving much of the fascinating variety of his subjects unseen. In honor of Van Gogh’s birthday, here is another modest selection of some works of his you don’t often see. Most of…