Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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.…

  • 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…