Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Kelly Carmody

    Kelly Carmody is a painter based in Waltham, MA, who focuses on portraits and still life. In her still life, Carmody works in a painterly, immediate approach, and has an interestingly different common theme of dead birds along with the more expected florals, food and vessels. Not a completely unusual theme for artists, particularly going…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema’s Vintage Festival

    The Vintage Festival, Lawrence Alma-Tadema Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. This is another of Alma-Tadema’s stunning evocations of life in classical Italy, in this case, a festival in Pompeii prior to the eruption of Vesuvius. The enlarged versions…

  • Eileen Goodman

    Eileen Goodman is painter well known over her long career here in Philadelphia for her naturalistic watercolors of fruit, flowers and gardens. Whet’s not obvious in images of her work is that she often works at a somewhat larger scale than is usually associated with watercolors, sometimes 4×3 ft (122x92cm) or larger. Goodman explores the…

  • Stanislas Lepine

    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

    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

    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…