Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Jean-François Rauzier

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    I don’t ordinarily cover photography here on Lines and Colors, partly because it seems a little off topic, but largely because I feel it’s covered better elsewhere. However, I couldn’t resist the delightful digitally-composited photographic fantasies of Jean-François Rauzier. Essentially a form of digital collage, Rauzier’s “Hyperphotos” composite landscapes, animals, and above all, architectural elements,…

  • David Curtis

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    UK Artist David Curtis paints in both oil and watercolor. He can use either medium to evoke sun filled scenes, rich with the contrast between deep dark and brilliant highlights, as well as the muted values of an overcast day. In both mediums, he uses a rich palette, with color juxtapositions that make even his…

  • High-res art images from LACMA Image Library

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    I’m always delighted to bring news of sources for high-resolution art images, like The Google Art Project, my recent post on Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website, and the full screen Zoomable images of auction items, past and present, from Sotheby’s. The latest in this list of high resolution image resources is the Image Library of…

  • The Night of All Fears

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    The Night of All Fears is wonderfully designed and realized short animation (1 minute) that was the winner in last years’ “B-Movie” challenge on CGSociety. Theme of the challenge was to bring to life a classic B-Movie, or to suggest one that didn’t exist. An example of the latter approach, The Night of All Fears…

  • George Tooker

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    When I was a teenager, I subscribed to a rather bizarre and eclectic experimental magazine called Avant Garde, published by Ralph Ginzburg. The value of its contents varied, but I remember one thing about it above all else — in one of the issues it introduced me to the work of American painter George Tooker.…

  • Not the usual Van Goghs

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    Browse through a dozen different books on Vincent van Gogh and chances are you’ll see many of the same paintings again and again. You might be tempted to think he had a limited oeuvre, but nothing could be further from the truth. Van Gogh was astonishingly prolific, particularly in light of the fact that his…