Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

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    In one of my recent posts I was talking about the place of value in painting. It brought to mind one of the greatest masters of value and tone, both in painting and drawing, whose chalk figure drawings are among my favorites by any artist. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was a French painter of the Romantic era,…

  • Rembrandt Drawings and Prints at the Met & Morgan

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    A friend just reminded me that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also honoring Rembrandt’s 400th birthday (see my post from last Saturday) with a special show drawn from their collection: Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints (July 11 – Oct 15, 2006). If you’re in range of New York, this…

  • Tim Knowles

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    This is about trees drawing. No, that’s not a typo for “tree drawings” or “drawing trees”, I mean “trees drawing”. I’m always fascinated with notions of what drawing is or can be. Tim Knowles has been working on a series of tree drawings that are actually drawings made by trees. Knowles sets up the conditions…

  • 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…