Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Willem Maris

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    Willem Maris was a 19th century Dutch painter whose subjects were primarily pastoral scenes of cattle and fowl, though he also painted figurative subjects. Though his choice of themes remained with him through his career, his approach to painting changed — from straightforward realism to experiments with bold color to the kind of painterly brushwork…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout cityscape

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    View of Bamberg, from the Ludwigskanal, Samuel Prout Pencil on paper, roughly 10×16 inches (26x40cm); original is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in NY. Samuel Prout, a British artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was known for his watercolors and graphics of architectural scenes. Here, in a…

  • Sainer

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    Sainer is a Polish painter and muralist, currently based in Gdynia, Poland. He is also one half of the artistic collaborative duo ETAM, along with Bezt. I’m a little uncertain whether some of the murals shown above are collaborative. They have a jaunty, sometimes cartoony style, but with definite attitude. Their large scale and presence…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s Dovecot

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    The Festival of St Swithin (The Dovecot), William Holman Hunt Link is to a larger version on The Athenaeum, original is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The version on the Ashmolean site is likely more accurate, I’ve lightened the slightly larger version from the Athenaeum to match it in value. I usually like to have…

  • Stan Miller

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    Spokane Washington based painter Stan Miller works in both watercolor and egg tempera, taking as his subjects portraits, landscapes, and in particular, scenes of Venice. The play of light across textural surfaces plays a key role in all of his compositions, whether revealing the turn of form in a face and head, illuminating the textures…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne

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    Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Graphite pencil on paper, roughly 17×12 inches (43×29 cm). Original is in the Morgan Library and Museum. Here is another of Ingres’s wonderful pencil portraits, with his trademark combination of exacting portraiture, and loose, almost casual rendering of the figure. The Morgan Library’s page offers both a zoomable and…