Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Durand reattributed to Inness

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    In what is an instructive example of the ever shifting landscape of art history, and the mercurial nature of the past in general, a painting in the Dallas Museum of Art that had long ben attributed to the hand of Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand has been reassigned to George Inness, another great…

  • Catherine Nelson

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    Visual effects artist Catherine Nelson, who has worked on films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, creates her personal work in the medium of digital photography, compositing hundreds of photographs into miniature floating worlds. There are several series in the “Artwork” section of her website, as well as earlier works…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany painting

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    Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa by Louis Comfort Tiffany. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yes, that Tiffany. Many who admire his designs and stained glass aren’t aware of his work as a painter. See my previous posts (listed below).

  • Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Century

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    The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow has placed online a catalog of their collection of Japanese Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can browse through sections for landscapes, beauties, actors, warriors, sumo wrestlers, flowers and birds. You can also browse by artist or school, and there are additional reference materials.…

  • Abandoned Paintings

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    An art student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts who lists himself as bENCE hAJDU on Behance has posted a short series of images in which he has used digital image editing to remove the people from some classic paintings and fill in the backgrounds where they once existed. Makes you think twice. [Via…

  • David Johnson portraits

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    I wrote about illustrator David Johnson in June of last year. At the time I particularly admired his portraits, wonderfully composed of contrasting areas of intricate line and carefully arranged open shapes. Johnson has launched a Tumblr blog on which he is posting a series of the portraits, titled A Portrait a Day Keeps Myself…