Author: cparker
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Thomas Cole
Though often thought of as a quintessentially American painter, the founder of the Hudson River School of painting and even the father of American landscape painting in general, it is perhaps fitting that Thomas Cole was an immigrant. Born in Lancashire England he moved to the U.S. with his family in 1818, when he was…
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Wake Up, America!
No sleeping in, no blog reading, no excuses; get to the polls and vote. Image above is by James Montgomery Flagg. For more on Flagg, (after you’ve voted), see my post urging you to get out and vote in 2006. Good luck, America.
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Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators
Long time readers of Lines and Colors know that I take great pleasure in many types of visual art, and that I like to blur and cross the lines between genres. In particular, I like to point out the artificiality of the distinction between illustration and “fine art”. Not that I don’t find it a…
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Tristan Elwell
Tritan Elwell is an illustrator who graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York and went on to attend the School of Visual Arts there on a full scholarship. In addition he worked as an assistant to photorealist painter Charles Bell. He returned to the School of Visual Arts as an…
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Dream Anatomy
The study of human anatomy has long been a juncture of art and science. The dissection of cadavers, at times forbidden by the church and state, has been of fascination to artists as much as to those endeavoring to figure out how this wondrous collection of bones, flesh and fluids works. Just as the scientific…
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Chris Appelhans (update)
Chris Appelhans, who I profiled back in 2006, has added some new images to his site, Froghat Studios, along with a fun short Superman animation. The latter is more of a slide show than an actual animation, but it works quite well, timed to music and with nice touches (I love the scene of Superman…