Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Olivia Knapp

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    Olivia Knapp is an artist based in Washington State who transitioned from work as a textile designer to full time pursuit of her pen and ink drawing. Knapp takes inspiration for her engraving-like approach to pen and ink —often done with Pigma Micron markers — from the classical styles of the baroque masters ink drawing…

  • Evariste Carpentier

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    Belgian painter Evariste Carpentier started in an academic style. During his time in France, he was infulenced by the French Realists, the naturalism of painters like Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jules Breton, the Barbizon painters and the move toward what would become Impressionism and eventually, Luminisim. In many of his stylistic experiments, he was undoubtedly influenced…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres’ portraits of Madame Moitessier

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    Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, National Gallery of Art, DC Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The National Gallery, London When asked to paint Madame Moitessier, Ingres — who was at a later point in his career in which he was less inclined to take on portrait commissions — initially refused. On meeting her, however, he was struck…

  • 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…