Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Natalie Hirschman

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    Though she also paints landscape and still life subjects, South African artist Natalie Hirschman finds her primary inspiration in figures and portraits. These are portrayed against rough, textural backgrounds. Hirschman’s use of lost and found edges allows her subjects to both be set off by their backgrounds and blend with them, giving her compositions a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Houel’s View of a Sepulchre

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    View of a Sepulchre in the Underground Grotto near the Church of S.Nicola on the Island of Lipari, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel In the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Gouache on paper, roughly 12×12″ (30x30cm) This beautiful gouache painting by the 18th century French painter Jean-Pierre Houel conveys a wonderful feeling for both the shadowed recesses of…

  • Tom Nachreiner

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    After establishing a successful carer as an illustrator, Wisconsin artist Tom Nachreiner transitioned into gallery painting. His landscapes, cityscapes and figures are based on a framework of solid draftsmanship, allowing him to apply his paint in loose, gestural strokes, at times taking his compositions close to the edge of abstraction. I particularly enjoy his use…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Medea

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    Medea, Frederick Sandys Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museum. The painting was kept from public view, though accepted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1868, because it was thought to be unacceptably in bad taste, largely due to the…

  • Andrei Schilder

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    Andrei Nikolaievich Schilder, a Russian landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a student of landscape master Ivan Shishkin — and it shows. Like his teacher, Schilder’s dense forests and pastoral fields are rich with texture, and conveyed with a deft handling of value and contrasts of form. Also in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Titian pen drawing

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    Trees Near a Pool of Water, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) Pen and brown ink, roughly 8×10″ (21x24cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Harvard Art Museums, which also has a zoomable image — as well as a version here. 16th century Venetian Master Tiziano Vecellio, commonly known as Titian,…