Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Tai-Shan Schierenberg

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    Tai-Shan Schierenberg’s intense, sometimes enigmatic portraits appear to be composed of rough-edged geometric chunks of color that one minute say “person”, and the next shout “paint!” Schierenberg is an English painter based in London, whose work in in the National Portrait Gallery, London; and whose subjects include Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vayreda’s Beginning of Spring

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    The Beginning of Spring, Joaquim Vayreda Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya. A wonderful painterly evocation of the cusp of Spring by Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda, who painted in the Catalan region in Spain in the late 19th…

  • Edward Harrison Compton

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    Born in Germany to English parents, Edward Harrison Compton was a landscape painter and illustrator active in the early 20th century. Compton began his training under the tutelage of his father, landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton, and went on to study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. His desire to follow…

  • High resolution images of Vermeer’s paintings

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    Johannes Vermeer was either a remarkable 17th century Dutch painter or an enchanted sorcerer of light from beyond time and space — sometimes it’s hard to tell — but I find his work particularly entrancing among all painters. His known existing oeuvre consists of only 36 paintings, each fascinating in their own way. I have…

  • Ian Hargreaves

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    Ian Hargreaves is an English painter who has lived in Italy and Germany, as well as the UK. His landscapes and cityscapes, often sun-splashed or dappled in shade, show the influence of his affection for Mediterranean subjects. Though you can’t see it in the small preview images above, his approach is often brusquely textural, giving…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Edward Lear graphite drawing

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    Parham, October.13.1834, Edward Lear Graphite and white gouache on toned paper, roughly 10×7 inches (26×17 cm). Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Edward Lear, known these days more for his…