Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Grigoriy Myasoyedov

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    Grigoriy Grigorievich Myasoyedov was a founding member of the group of 19th century Russian painters know as the Peredvizhniki, who rejected the formalities of the Impreial Academy of the Arts in favor of traveling exhibitions. Unfortunately, he is not as well known outside of Russia as his more famous counterparts, and information and examples of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s In the Orchard

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    In the Orchard, Edmund Charles Tarbell Link is to large, downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Apparently, Edmund Tarbell — one of most noted of the painters classified as “American Impressionists” — liked to say that he wasn’t particularly influenced by the French Impressionist painters…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Aelbert Cuyp chalk drawing

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    View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Aelbert Cuyp Black and brown chalks, green and gray washes, roughly 7 x 14 inches (18 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art With simple lines and deft applications of tone — in only a few levels of value…

  • Robert Sampson

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    Originally from New York, Robert Sampson is a painter now based here in Philadelphia, where he portrays the city’s overpasses, rail bridges, streets and walls in strong, marvelously geometric compositions. He enlists shadows, street markings and pass-throughs in building his scenes, as well as pedestrians, who can sometimes be seen in groups as semi-abstract shapes.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh’s painted copy of Hiroshige print

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    Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh. Zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Van Gogh Museum. Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; file on Wikipedia. About mid-way through his all too short career, Vincent van Gogh, like many of the French Impressionists…

  • Bill Vrscak

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    Bill Vrscak is a watercolor painter and illustrator based in the Pittsburgh, PA area. He has a wonderfully appealing combination of solid draftsmanship and crisp but free application of color. I particularly enjoy his paintings that incorporate large areas of open space, which he expertly uses to guide your eye through his composition. On his…