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  • Antti Rautiola

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    Antti Rautiola is a painter and art director living in Helinski, Finland. On his website and his blog you will find examples of his work in plein air landscape and studio paintings, including paintings of his family. On his blog, in particular, you will find larger versions of his paintings, showing his loose, confident brushwork.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings

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    Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…

  • Anders Zorn: some highlights

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    In my previous post on the brilliant Swedish painter Anders Zorn here on Lines and Colors, I concentrated on the exhibition currently at the National Academy Museum in New York (until May 18, 2014). I wanted to follow up with a more general selection of some of Zorn’s wonderfully painterly works, and some general resources…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bernard Hall still life

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    After Dinner, Bernard Hall Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Any one of the smaller groupings here would have made a superb still life — the bowl and lemon, the decanter and creamer, the teacup and apertif…

  • Lynn Boggess

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    In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess, however, “troweled on” literally applies to his painting method. Boggess works in a manner associated with painting…

  • Mr. Hublot and the sculptures of Stéphane Halleux

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    I’m usually not one to watch award shows; I would rather (quite literally) watch paint dry. However, in the case of the Academy Awards, I usually will take note the day after of mentions in the category of Best Animated Short Film. This year’s winner in that category, Mr. Hublot, a CGI animated short directed…