Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Steven Assael (update)

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    Steven Assael is a well-known figurative painter based in New York who I first wrote about in 2009. His subjects range from straightforward portrait and figure painting to varying levels of implied narrative. All are handled with a painterly finesse, subdued palette, subtle value relationships and a foundation of superb draftsmanship. The latter is also…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Martin’s The Bard

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    The Bard, John Martin The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, UK, but their website is so poorly arranged I can’t even give you a link to the item. Though 19th century…

  • Saturnino Herrán

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    Though the internet has greatly facilitated the exchange of cultural information between nations in recent decades, there are still large gaps in the general awareness of art between some nations. With the exception of one famous couple, few painters from Mexico are well known here in the U.S. — despite its proximity and rich cultural…

  • Eye Candy for Today: George Inness landscape study

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    Landscape Study, George inness On Wikimedia Commons. As far as I can tell, the original is in a private collection. In this small but strikingly beautiful study (9×13 in; 23x33m), we get an uncharacteristic glimpse of Inness wielding the brush. The brief notations of the animals and buildings are remarkable for their naturalistic appearance when…

  • Martin Wittfooth (update)

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    Martin Wittfooth is a New York based painter who I first wrote about back in 2008. Wittfooth applies his lifelong fascination with classical art to paintings in which animals serve as the subject of sometimes overt, sometimes enigmatic musings on the state of the planet. No humans appear in his paintings, but the influence of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait of Mme. Lethière

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    Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of…