Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Franz Xaver Hoch

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    Franz Xaver Hoch was a German landscape painter and printmaker active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His dramatic compositions are often cast is subtle, almost melancholy light. Unfortunately, I can find few images sources for Hoch, and little in the way of biographical information — most of that on German language sites.

  • Derek Theodore Davis

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    Landscape painter Derek Theodore Davis takes advantage of textural paint application and indistinct edges to give his work a pleasing unity. This also allows him to craft bold, geometric compositions, often with light cascading through a scene in angular paths. I particularly like his winter scenes of show-covered paths and fields, in which these elements…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Osman Bey still life

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    Flowers in a White Vase, Osman Hamdi Bey Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum. European-trained Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20th century — gives us a delicately realized still life…

  • Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings

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    Though I had seen a few reproductions of his work in books, I first really took notice of German artist Adolph Menzel quite a few years ago, when I encountered some of his original drawings in shows of 19th century master drawings at the Morgan Library in New York and the National Gallery in D.C.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Albert Bierstadt genre painting

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    Roman Fish Market. Arch of Octavius, Albert Bierstadt Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the de Young Museum. Though known primarily for his dramatic landscapes of the American west, 19th century painter Albert Bierstadt also painted other subjects, particularly early in his career. Here…

  • Josep M Solà

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    Josep Maria Solà is a painter who lives and works in the Catalan region within Spain. His richly hued, often intricately detailed compositions emphasize the textural qualities of woods, fields, mountains and rocky gorges. His points of view vary from intimate small scale views of creeks and glens to broad vistas of mountain ranges and…