Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Jules-Alexandre Grün

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    Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French painter, illustrator and poster artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Grün painted the social life of paris, dinner parities and grand celebrations, and designed posters for theatre and other events. There is a blog devoted to his poster work, Jules-Alexandre Grün: The Posters, with a bio.…

  • Will Harmuth

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    New Jersey artist William Harmuth paints landscapes and townscapes in both oil and acrylic. In the former, his color is often laid down in thick, brusque passages, giving the surface an almost sculptural character. His acrylics also give the impression of gestural paint application. In the “Traditional” gallery section of his website, you will find…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bellini’s Feast of the Gods

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    The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini and Titian Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files (the larger of which requires a free login account). Venetian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini‘s last great painting was…

  • Deborah Walker

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    UK watercolor painter Deborah Walker often takes as her subjects the dramatic rock and chalk cliffs of the southern coast of England. In doing so, she uses the open whites to great advantage in portraying the shimmer of light across water and the craggy surfaces of the chalk walls. Her other favored subjects also frequently…

  • Valentin Serov at the Tretyakov Gallery

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    Though not as well known in Western Europe and the US as some of his contemporaries, Russian painter Valentin Aleksandrovitch Serov is well known and much admired in his home country — so much so that a show of his work currently at the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow has hosted record crowds, and even suffered…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Corot painting of Castel Sant’Angelo

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    The Bridge and Castel Sant’Angelo with the Cupola of St. Peters, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Link is to WikiArt, large version here; original is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Leigon of Honor). Corot painted in several styles through his career, but this is an example of my favorite type of approach on his part.…