Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Alfred Parsons

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    Alfred Parsons was a British landscape painter, illustrator and botanical artist, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His sensitivity to the nuances of natural forms and colors is particularly evident in his evocative portrayals of flowering trees in spring. Parsons also brought his artistic sensibilities and botanical knowledge to garden design. In…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Karl Spitzweg’s Childhood Friends

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    Childhood Friends, Karl Spitzweg Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. I love the illustrative qualities in the piece — the theatrical lighting, the narrative element and the caricaturish portrayal of the old friends, shown in an apparent reunion…

  • Kevin Muente

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    Kevin Muente is an artist based in Kentucky, who is also a professor of art at Northern Kentucky University. His work focuses on landscape and figures in landscape, the latter often engaged in some kind of activity, or a state or situation with some emotional resonance. Muente’s approach is one of clear observation and focused…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s Capriccio with monumental staircase

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    A capriccio with a monumental staircase, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and ink with gray wash, roughly 14 x 21 inches ( 36 x 53 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Royal Collection, which also has a a zoomable version and a…

  • Oleg Kozak

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    Oleg Kozak is a painter from Lviv, Ukraine who paints bright, crisp watercolors of landscapes and portraits. Throughout his landscapes runs a fascination with the play of light and shadow; with dappled light, in particular, theatrically spotlighting key elements while others recede into darkness. I’m especially fond of his portrayals of smaller, more intimate portions…

  • Cecilia Beaux (update)

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    Cecilia Beaux — an American portrait painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — is, like her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase, receiving something of a revival of appreciation for her place in the history American Art. Unlike them, however, she still suffers from the fact that her contribution…