Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant

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    18th century French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard was known for his luxuriously colored and lavishly rendered depictions of frivolity and sensuality, much in keeping with the High-Baroque fascination with those kinds of scenes. As beautifully painted as they may be, the subject matter of Fragonard’s paintings can leave you with the undeserved impression that his abilities…

  • John P. Lasater

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    John P. Lasater IV is a contemporary American painter based in Arkansas. His paintings include landscape, still life and figurative subjects. Lasater devotes a good deal of his time to plein air painting, and the freshness and immediacy of that practice carries over into his still life and studio landscape painting. I particularly enjoy his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Way still life

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    Bunch of Grapes, Andrew Way In the Walters Art Museum. Use “Explore Object” line in upper left of image for zoomable version, or Download link to right. Image can also be viewed in a zoomable version on Google Art Project. I haven’t seen the original, but my instincts tell me this image may be overly…

  • 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…