Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Ben Blatt

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    Benn Blatt is a dimension-hopping xenobiologist/dreamscape botanical artist based, perhaps fittingly, in Brooklyn, NY. Blatt takes natural forms of flora and fauna — both real and wildly imaginary — bits of architecture, sculptural elements, jewelry and metalware; filters them through his fascination with 15th and 16th century masters like Bosch and Brueghel, 20th century Dadaists…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alberto Pasini’s Market Day in Constantinople

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    Market Day in Constantinople, Alberto Pasini Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Berkshire Museum (no full image). Pasini was known for his Orientalist paintings of locations and subjects in the eastern Mediterranean. Here he renders not only the exotic architecture in the city…

  • Jeremy Mann

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    Jeremy Mann is a painter based in the San Francisco area with a fascinating approach — or more accurately, range of approaches — to his primary subjects of figures, still life and cityscapes. Mann can paint in a refined, straightforward style of realism, particularly in his still life paintings, and also take his cityscape compositions…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Schetky’s Battle of Trafalgar

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    The Battle of Tragalgar, John Christian Schetky Link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.   My apologies to those of you who have had difficulty accessing Lines and Colors in the last week or so, particularly in the last few days. The…

  • Colley Whisson (update)

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    Last year, I wrote about a series of YouTube painting demos by Austrailian painter Colley Whisson, who I first featured in 2011. I thought it would be nice to more directly highlight some of Whisson’s work, which is notable not only for his fresh, crisp, painterly technique, but for the remarkable energy and economy with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Georg Flegel’s Still Life with Eggs

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    Still Life with Eggs, Georg Flegel Link is to an article on Viático de Vagamundo. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately, not the best reproduction in either case, but the best I could find for such a wonderful painting by the 16th/17th century German still life master. Original is in the State Gallery in the Castle…