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  • Kelsey Beckett

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    Kelsey Beckett is a Michigan based illustrator and gallery artist. In the work on her website she focuses on portrayals of young women dressed in sometimes elaborate clothing with the visual interest of lots of drapery folds, layers and patterns, and often accompanied by floral elements. Her faces are stylized and rendered with restrained modeling,…

  • A list of art podcast lists

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    I haven’t listened to enough art podcasts to give many first hand reports, so I offer you a list of lists of art podcasts, many of which give good capsule descriptions of the podcasts. Yes, there is a good bit of overlap between the lists, but you should be able to find something that suits…

  • 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.…