Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Antonio Mauro Perspective Design for a Stage Set

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    Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape, Antonio Mauro II Pen and black ink, brown and gray wash and leadpoint layout lines, roughly 10 x 14 in. (27 x 36 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Enlarge or Download links under their image. This beautifully crafted…

  • Arthur Parton

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    Arthur Parton was an American landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a member of the Hudson River School, though there is less information available about him online than many of the other painters associated with that school. He studied under William Trost Richards at the Pennsylvania Academy of…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes

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    Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. The Getty’s version of the image looks dark to me, as often seems to be the case with museums’ online representation of their collections. The Google Art Project version,…

  • The Nativity, Albrecht Durer

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    The Nativity, Albrecht Durer Engraving, in the collection of the national Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. In this beautiful early 16th century engraving by one of the great masters of printmaking,…

  • 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…