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  • Eye Candy for Today: Campin’s St. John the Baptist and Heinrich von Werl

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    Saint John the Baptist and the Franciscan Heinrich von Werl, Robert Campin. Commissioned by a contemporary 15th century Franciscan to portray himself praying in the company of Saint John, this is, like Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, another marvel of detail and glazing. It was in paintings like this that…

  • Jake Parker (update)

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    Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah. His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E. He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all…

  • Durer’s Melencolia I

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    Meloncolia I, Albrecht Dürer. One of the most iconic engravings by one of art’s great printmakers, Melelcolia (an archaic spelling of melancholia) is filled with symbols of alchemy and carpentry (architecture), along with various measuring tools, an hourglass, a polyhedron and a “magic square” — the rows of which add up to 34 in all…

  • Steve Smulka

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    Interestingly, the galleries of paintings on Steve Smulka’s website are divided into two sections: Women and Glass. Though seemingly disparate subjects, the relationship becomes more apparent when you observes his fascination with the way light affects both kinds of compositions. Light is transmitted and refracted through his glass objects, which include heavy jars and bottles…

  • Andrew Borg

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    Andrew Borg is a artist based in Malta, where he portrays that island nation’s Mediterranean sunlight in bright plein air watercolors. You can see in his approach his admiration for watercolor masters like John Singer Sargent. On Borg’s website you will find his portrayals of Malta’s dramatic rocky landscapes, formal gardens, sunlit streets, churches, and…

  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at NHIA

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that James Gurney is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators, as well as being a superb landscape painter and the author of several books on art technique. Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney is an exhibition that opens today at the New Hampshire Institute of…