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Author: cparker

  • Guide to Virtual Museum Resources

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    The Museum Computer Network (MCN) has published a guide to online virtual museums and related resources: The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections, that should provide art lovers who are at home with time to browse a cornucopia of time sinks. Divided into sections like “Portals”, “Virtual Tours / Online Exhibits”,…

  • What I Want You to See, by Catherine Linka

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    I don’t often review novels on Lines and Colors, but when I received a review copy of Catherine Linka’s What I Want You to See, I was intrigued. Set in the environment of a competitive art school, the novel is both a mystery and the personal story of a promising art student. Sabine Reyes is…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape with a Calm

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    Landscape with a Calm, Nicolas Poussin, oil on canvas, roughly 38 x 51 inches (97 x 131 cm). Original is in the Getty Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Among other subjects, French…

  • Monet’s Gare Saint-Lazare series

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    Claude Monet painted several series of paintings on particular subjects — like the haystack series, poplars, water lilies and the facade of the Rouen Cathedral — revisiting the same subject multiple times in different lighting and atmospheric conditions. The first of these series was of the Gare Saint-Lazare, one the large railway terminals in Paris.…

  • Eye candy for Today: Jean Giraud illustration

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    Mystere Montrouge, plate 10, Jean Giraud This is an image from a portfolio of prints published in 2001 by Jean (Moebius) Giraud. Dreamlike, inventive and striking, it’s yet another wonderful example of his line and color approach, without the spotted blacks and feathering characteristic of American comics art. Note the subtle gradations in the face…

  • Ada Florek

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    Originally from Poland, Ada Florek is a watercolor painter based in Thoiry, France. Though she also paints other subjects, she focuses primarily on architectural and still life subjects. I enjoy her textural approach and use of crisp edges.