Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • The Tale of How

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    Some drawings just look like they should be animated. I would love to see Van Gogh’s lively stipple dance across the screen, or Miro’s already living line actually grow and move like the organic thing it is. Fortunately some drawings that look like they should be animated actually reach that state. When I first wrote…

  • The Morgan Library and Museum

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    Finally! After 3 years of being off the map, one of the foremost collections and exhibition spaces for works on paper in the US is back. The newly renamed Morgan Library and Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) is set to reopen this Saturday, April 29, 2006. I’ve been to number of exhibitions of master…

  • Bev Byrnes

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    Looking through a number of wonderful paintings of small objects for my post on “painting a day” sites put me in mind of another type of art, one that, like architectural rendering and medical illustration, seldom gets notice from artists and observers outside the genre: botanical illustration. Like architectural rendering, which I mentioned in my…

  • Gilles Tréhin

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    Gilles Tréhin is an autistic savant who began to exhibit a seemingly innate talent for drawing at the age of 5, as well as unusual abilities for mental calculation and music. Autistic savants are people whose mental wiring seems to be a little different than the rest of us, resulting in limitations in certain areas…

  • Michelangelo’s Drawings

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    This sheet of drawings, Michelangelo’s studies for the Libyan Sibyl, perhaps the most beautiful of the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, has always impressed me as a self-contained master course in drawing. It’s loose, expressive and supremely confident. The draughtsmanship is precise and elegant. The figure is modeled in detail but there is still…

  • Andrew Wyeth

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    I should start out by admitting that, although I really like some of his work, Andrew Wyeth is not one of my favorites. Partly it’s because I find much of his work cold, not in the sense of his frequent depiction of winter scenes, which I like, but in the lack of warmth that I…