Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Heinrich Böhmer

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    Heinrich Böhmer was a German landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I can find little information about him and only a few sources of images, but those I’ve encountered are wonderful. Böhmer’s muted, subtle forest interiors, streams and pathways put me in mind of Peder Mørk Mønsted, though I don’t…

  • Eye Candy For Today: Gilbert Stuart portraits

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    Portraits of Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes, and Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot, by Gilbert Stuart Both paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the images on the museum’s pages. 18th century painter Gilbert Stuart is an artist whose historical stature suffers from “greatest hits” syndrome. His portraits…

  • Simon Addyman

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    Originally from England, Simon Addyman is a landscape painter now living and working in California. Addyman walks a line between suggestion and representation, and apparently feels quite comfortable on either side. His textural, often brusquely applied brush marks fade and weave into one another, creating movement and coalescing into the forms of his subjects as…

  • Anna Mason

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    Anna Mason is an English botanical illustrator and watercolor artist. She often works at a relatively large scale, and her paintings have an appealing blend of detail, texture and color. Mason is self-taught, and only 18 months after beginning botanical painting, won a Royal Horticulture Society medal for botanical arts for a sequence of 20…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holbein’s portrait of Thomas More

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    Portrait of Sir Thomas More (painting); Sir Thomas More (drawing), Hans Holbein the Younger Links are to zoomable versions on the Google Art Project. The painting is in the Frick Collection, which also has a zoomable version, downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; the drawing is in the Royal Collection Trust, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons.…

  • Vilhelm Hammershøi

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    If I were to look up “muted palette” in my mental art dictionary, the definition would be a painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Danish painter, active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, was noted for his enigmatic, poetic interiors — sometimes empty, but frequently occupied by a lone figure. This figure was often…