Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Stanislas Lepine

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    Though he participated in the first Impressionist exhibit — and shared with them a move away from the conventions of academic landscape and a search for the atmospheric effects of light and color — 19th century French painter Stanislas Lépine largely stayed outside of their circle. Lépine worked outside of most artistic social life, for…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Romá Ribera’s Woman in Evening Gown

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    Woman in Evening Gown, Romá Ribera Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Ribera uses soft edges here to great effect, not only in framing his subject in soft backlighting, but in the portrayal of the texture of…

  • Denis Sarazhin

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    Denis Sarazhin is a Ukrainian painter who studied at the Kharkov Art and Design Academy and the Ukrainian Art Academy. In addition to exhibitions and galleries in Europe, Sarazhin’s work is available in the U.S. through Gallery Russia in Scottsdale, AZ. When I came across Sarazhin’s work, I was immediately struck by his stunning use…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Böcklin’s Odysseus and Polyphemus

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    Odysseus and Polyphemus, Arnold Böcklin Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The file on Wikimedia, though originally from the Sotheby’s sale to the museum in 2012, seems over-saturated in reds. Not having had the pleasure of seeing the…

  • A Revolution of the Palette at Norton Simon

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    Though it had been slowing expanding over the centuries, the range of paint colors available to artists increased most dramatically in the 19th century, when a number of new synthetic pigments began to come into production, partly as a result of the industrial revolution. Prior to that, new color discoveries were few and scattered, and…

  • Seth Havercamp

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    Virginia based artist Seth Havercamp studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art, the Memphis College of Art and Carson-Newman College. He continued his study with Robert Liberace at the Art League and Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati. Havercamp concentrates on figures, portraits and still life. In the latter, he takes a fascinatingly textural approach that…