Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre: Mardi Gras

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    Boulevard Montmartre: Mardi Gras, Camille Pissarro Image on WikiArt. Original is in the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a larger version of this image. Though different in many ways — a different boulevard, a different season, and certainly a different kind of procession — I couldn’t help but think of this…

  • “Flowers of the Sky” on the Public Domain Review

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    “Flowers of the Sky” is a post on the Public Domain Review in which they have collected some historic depictions of comets and meteors, and arranged them in chronological order — including a section of the Bayeux Tapestry (above, top). The images have links to larger versions. While you’re on the Public Domain Review (my…

  • Eye Candy for Today: David Wilkie’s Letter of Introduction

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    The Letter of Introduction, David Wilkie Link is to Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Wilkie gives us a scene supposedly referenced from his own experience, as a young man presents what is evidently an insufficient letter of introduction to a disdainful older man.…

  • 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…