Lines and Colors art blog

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  • Holly Carden

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    I have to say that I just love cutaway illustrations, those wonderful glimpses of the workings of cars, aircraft, ships, machines, buildings and other complex objects in which the artist has granted the viewer the gift of x-ray vision. Nashville based freelance illustrator Holly Carden creates some particularly nice cutaways of buildings, both real and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: T.C. Steele’s Bloom of the Grape

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    The Bloom of the Grape, Theodore Clement Steele Oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 40″ (76 x 100 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. If, like me, you’re wondering why you don’t see any grape vines in…

  • Chen Yanning

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    Originally from Guangzhou in China, Chen Yanning studied at the Guangdong Academy of Fine Art. He became a U.S. citizen and now lives and works in New Jersey. Yanning takes as his primary subject portraits of young women, some formally posed and surrounded by still life objects, other more casually depicted in various activities. Though…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Madonna of the Pomegranate

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    Madonna of the Pomegranate, Sandro Botticelli; egg tempera on wood panel, roughly 56 inches (144 cm) in diameter; link is to the file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which does not appear to have a reproduction of the painting on its website. 15th century Florentine master Alessandro di Mariano…

  • Gilbert Gorski

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    Gilbert Gorski is a Pennsylvania based artist who is also a practicing architect. Gorski’s paintings diverge from his architectural background and focus on natural subjects. His approach is a fascinating variation on techniques employed by the impressionist and Post-Impressionist Pointillist painters, using thousands of tiny daubs of paint that blend visually to create images that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Lars Hertervig landscape

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    The Tarn, Lars Hertervig, oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 18 inches (63 x 46 cm); link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig portrays the landscape surrouding a “tarn” (a glacially formed lake) in a…