Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Lines and Colors has gone dark today, please read why…
—— Comments about Net Neutrality can be filed with the FCC up until July 17, 2017. When I posted this originally, I actually shut the site down and only this message was accessible against an otherwise black screen. I’ve reposted it as a regular article, both because it’s still vital, and so you can comment…
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Eye Candy for Today: Christian Schussele illustration of sea life
Ocean Life, Christian Schussele Watercolor and gouache, roughly 19 x 28 inches (48 x 70 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This illustration was painted by 19th century painter Schussele for inclusion in a scientific pamphlet, and likely under the guidance of the pamphlet’s author, James M. Sommerville, an amateur naturalist.…
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Hector Caffieri
Hector Caffieri was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though adept at both oil and watercolor, he is known primarily as a watercolorist. His refined, academic style is sometimes tinged with hints of Impressionist color, but his approach is largely straightforward. His subjects included still life and interiors, but…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) ink painting
Bamboo in Wind and Rain, Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) Hanging scroll, ink on paper, roughly 88 x 30 inches (223 x 76 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Shitao, who was active in what Europeans would call the 17th century, was known for his paintings of bamboo, and his style was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s Girl in a Hammock
Girl in a Hammock, Winslow Homer Link is to a page from which you can access a large image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the collection of the Colby Museum of Art, which also has a zoomable version. I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the original. The Wikimedia version may be a bit…
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Marie-François Firmin-Girard
Marie-François Firmin-Girard (or perhaps more correctly, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) was a French painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied for a time with Charles Gleyre (in whose Paris studio three of the founding Impressionists would later meet), and then with academic mainstay Jean-Léon Gérôme. After a successful debut at the Paris…