Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Matteo Massagrande

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    Italian painter Matteo Massagrande finds fascination in the colors and textures of worn, apparently abandoned architectural interiors. These often open to glimpses of landscapes or seascapes beyond, and his secondary subject appears to be trees that are as contorted as the deliberately askew perspective in many of his rooms. In some of his interior compositions,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Autumn, Poplars, Éragny

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    Autumn, Poplars, Eragny; Camille Pissarro Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Denver Art Museum which also has a zoomable version (and, oddly, has another, somewhat different looking version of the image). This is Pissarro at the height of his classically Impressionist style. The…

  • August von Siegen

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    August von Siegen was a 19th century German painter who specialized in cityscapes of in the style of European and “Oriental” (Eastern Mediterranean) cities. Some are of recognizable places or landmarks, but most are fanciful, and he appears to blend real and imagined views. His emphasis is on the dramatic and exotic, so it’s no…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer’s At the Window

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    At the Window, Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Princeton University Art Museum, which has background on the painting on their website. Almost like a 17th century Dutch portrait, this much more casual image of a young woman at a window…

  • James Crandall

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    James Crandall is a California based artist who transitioned from a career in concept art for advertising and film into full time gallery painting. His subjects are often urban landscape and everyday activities. Many of the European subjects are from his visits to his grandfather’s hometown of Lucca, Italy. Crandall renders his compositions in blocky,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Edward Poynter’s Lesbia and Her Sparrow

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    Lesbia and Her Sparrow, Sir Edward John Poynter Link is to downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in a private collection; information on the painting can be found in the Bonham’s auction page for its last sale. The painting is a reference to accounts by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus of his…