Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Tom Uttech

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    Wisconsin painter Tom Uttech paints representations of the northern woods with a unique style that carries flavors of realism, magic realism and even primitivism (thinking of Henri Rousseau here). His moody, often dark woodlands sometimes only hint at the presence of animal life, and at other times are teeming with it, skies filled with birds,…

  • Ruta Korshunova

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    Ruta Korshunova is a painter living near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Amid the turmoil and uncertainty of life in Ukraine during the border conflict with the Russian Federation, Korshunova finds the presence of mind to paint quiet, contemplative still life; bringing to her commonplace objects a sense of timelessness. Korshunova was at one point…

  • Christoffel Pierson

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    Christoffel Pierson was a 17th century Dutch painter who specialized in town scenes, portraits and, in particular, trompe l’œil still life. Trompe l’œil (fool the eye) is a style of realist still life in which the artist attempts to deceive the viewer into believing that the painted object is physically real. In Pierson’s paintings, the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Robert Blum’s silk merchant

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    The Silk Merchant, Japan; Robert Frederick Blum Link is to Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Cincinnati Art Museum. After Japan opened relations with Europe and the U.S. in the mid 19th century, many European and American artists were dramatically influenced by imported Japanese art and culture; but…

  • Darcie Peet

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    Darcie Peet is a painter who divides her time between the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and the Sonora Desert in Arizona, painting her impressions of both in crisp, painterly oils. Peet pays particular attention to the character of light as it plays across her landscapes, whether muted or bright, often revealing itself in bands of…

  • Hollis Dunlap

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    Hollis Dunlap is a painter based in Connecticut, who take influences from the master so the past, but brings incorporates them into an approach with an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. Though he also paints landscape and still life subjects, Dunlap’s primary focus if figurative work. His compositions in all cases explore the expression of light in…