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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Thomas Fearnley

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    Thomas Fearnley was a 19th century Norwegian painter who specialized in landscapes. He painted many of his works in Italy, particularly along the beautiful Amalfi coast in places like Sorrento and Capri. He was also an accomplished printmaker and produced very appealing lithographs and etchings of landscape scenes. His subjects ranged from grand and dramatic…

  • Eye Candy for Today: WH Millais’ Hayes Common

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    Hayes Common, William Henry Millais In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file of that image, which is slightly larger and more colorful, on Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Millais, the elder brother…

  • Josh Keyes

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    Josh Keyes is an Oregon based painter whose themes include graffiti on objects where it would not normally appear, animals intersecting with civilization in thought provoking ways, and scenes in which nature is reclaiming what appears to be a recently post-human world. The latter theme is sometimes expressed in compositions in which the elements have…

  • The National Museum of Women in the Arts

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    As I mentioned in my post on Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the tragedies of the level of misogyny in the history of art — in addition to the personal tragedies of women whose passion for creating art was denied by societal “norms” — is the unknowable number of possibly brilliant women artists…

  • Lines and Colors is on strike today, January 20, 2017

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    There will be no new posts today on Lines and Colors about art or artists, no lovely images of art to inspire or amuse you. This is perhaps a portent of things to come, but today it’s just a protest. Lines and Colors is on strike today in support of the J20 Art Strike, calling…

  • Belshazzar’s Feast, John Martin

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    Belshazzar’s Feast, mezzotint; & Belshazzar’s Feast, painting; John Martin John Martin was a 19th century British artist noted for his dramatic depictions of disasters and/or impending disasters. Here are two of his interpretations of the Biblical story of Belshazzar’s Feast, in which the arrogant ruler of Babylon shows his disdain for the enslaved population of…