Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Paul Bond

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    Born in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently living in California, where he studied art, Paul Bond brings to his light-filled style of Magic Realism an obvious affection for the reality-teasing twists of Magritte, and a fascination with certain repeated themes. In particular, he finds ongoing variations on the theme of piled rocks, rendered with a tactile…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June

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    Flaming June, Frederic Leighton The link is to a file on Wikimedia Commons. (I think the image is over-saturated, and I’ve taken the liberty of correcting it somewhat in the images above.) The original is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, though the museum doesn’t appear to have their collection online.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up

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    Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, along with a page devoted to the painting. The original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files. As much as Homer is noted for his watercolors…

  • Mary Jane Ansell (update)

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    Mary Jane Ansell, a UK painter who I first featured in 2013, is now represented here in the US by Arcadia Contemporary in New York. Her elegantly refined portraits — primarily of young women — reveal their subjects in nuanced touches of diffuse light. They usually carry an implied narrative element, adding depth and a…

  • Charles Newman

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    Based in New Jersey, in the Philadelphia region, Charles Newman had my attention immediately with his portrayal of chairs on rooftops in the city (images above, top), an image that so strongly reminds me of my top-floor Walnut street apartment when I was an art student it’s uncanny. Newman’s appeal goes much farther for me…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Almeida Júnior’s Saudade

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    Saudade (Longing), José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a very high resolution downloadable file (138MB) on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (no good images). The subject of a young woman reading a letter, with either…