Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Lievens still life

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    Still life with Books, Jan Lievens. In the Rijksmuseum. Did someone say texture?

  • Dot Bunn

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    Dot Bunn is a painter based in the Bucks County area of southeastern Pennsylvania — a region noted for the influence of both the Pennsylvania Impressionists and the more academic traditionalism of Thomas Eakins and his followers. Bunn carries some characteristics of both schools in her landscape, still life and figurative work. Her vibrant, painterly…

  • Eric Fraser

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    Eric Fraser was a 20th century British illustrator best known for his illustrations in Radio Times that spanned a run of over 40 years. Fraser also worked in many other venues, from book illustration to commercial art for advertising, His work is the subject of a retrospective at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, that…

  • Rijksmuseum reopens

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    One of the world’s great museums, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, reopened its doors today after 10 years of renovations. The museum’s centerpiece, Rembrandt’s monumental work Officers and other civic guardsmen of District II of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq andLieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the ‘Night Watch’ (above, second down),…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s redwoods

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    Giant Redwood Trees of California, Albert Bierstadt. On Google Art Project; click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Berkshire Museum (no image). Bierstadt dazzled east coast society with his large scale paintings of a largely untamed continent. Few natural wonders could match these magnificent giant plants. Giant Redwood Trees…

  • Kate Baylay

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    Though she is a recent graduate of the illustration program at the University of West England, Kate Barley’s style has a mature feel. She takes inspiration in the work of great Golden Age illustrators like Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac and Harry Clarke, with a bit of Aubrey Beardsley and perhaps a touch of early 20th…