Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat
The Large Cat (Cat Sleeping), Cornelis Visscher, engraving, roughly 5 x 7 inches (14 x 18 cm) I admire the way Visscher has varied the direction of his lines to indicate the natural texture of the cat’s fur, and the density of the lines to achieve his subtle variations in value. The foreground foliage and…
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N. C. Wyeth
When I first started Lines and Colors back in 2005, I actually wondered if I might run out of artists I admire to write about. Some fourteen years and several thousand posts later, my list of potential subjects is longer than the list of those I’ve covered. There are some artists, however, who are among…
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Ambrogio Alciati
Ambrogio Antonio Alciati was an Italian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was primarily a society portrait painter, but many of his other canvasses were subjects of romance, courtship and passion. His style evolved over time, a darker more classical approach giving way to painterly splashes of color.
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Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis was an Australian/American printmaker, illustrator and painter active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known primarily for his etchings of wonderfully evocative scenes of urban life, often focusing on the effects of artificial light in nighttime scenes. In much of his work, shadows and areas absent of light play…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of Rubens Peale
Rubens Peale with a Geranium, Rembrandt Peale, oil on Canvas, roughly 28 x 24 inches (71 x 61 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Link is to the NGA page, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google…
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J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours
English painter and printmaker J.M.W. Turner, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was astonishingly prolific. On his death, he left over 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors and more than 30,000 works on paper. Many of the latter are pages from his sketchbooks, and many of those are in the collection…