Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Amusements

  • 18th century paintings meet Google Street View

    A reditt and imgur user who lives in London and goes by the handle “shystone” has posted two series of photomontages in which 18th century pantings are superimposed over Google Street View images of the same scene, creating in each a sort of artistic portal into the past. One set is of London, with paintings…

  • Architectural alphabet, Antonio Basoli

    Though perhaps not as clever and imaginative as the Landscape alphabet by L.E.M. Jones — that I recently highlighted here on Lines and Colors — this architectural alphabet by Italian artist Antonio Basoli is nonetheless well done and amusing. Basoli published his Pictorial Alphabet, or, a collection of pictorial thoughts composed of objects beginning with…

  • Landscape alphabet, L.E.M. Jones

    This wonderful alphabet, composed of landscape images, was created in the early 19th century. If I understand correctly, it was designed and drawn by an artist named L.E.M. Jones, and then printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, who may have made the lithographic drawings from which the prints were pulled. Full set is in the British…

  • Super Bowl art bet 2014

    In what should have been an annual tradition, but was apparently dropped for a time, art museums in the two U.S. cities sending teams to the Super Bowl are again engaging in an art loan wager. If the Seattle Seahawks win, the Denver Art Museum will loan “The Bronco Buster”, a sculpture by Frederick Remington,…

  • The fleeting art of Andres Amador

    “Ars longa, vita brevis”, goes the phrase (Art is long, life is short), but then, some art is much more temporary than most. The art of Andres Amador, though ostensibly made of “archival materials”, lasts only until the next high tide. Amador takes his rake to the beaches of northern California and creates carefully controlled…

  • Santa Classics

    For his series titled “Santa Classics” photographer Ed Wheeler dresses up as Santa, takes a shot of himself in a certain position under carefully arranged lighting, and then composites the photo into an image from classic art. The Previous/Next buttons aren’t obvious at the lower left of the website home page. There is also a…