Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Phil Sandusky (update)

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    Phil Sandusky is a New Orleans based painter who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. I checked back recently to see that not only has he added recent work to his website, but a new series of prints as well. Sandusky’s plein air paintings have an appealingly informal, sketch-like feeling, due largely I…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Lofty Mount Lu, by Shen Zhou

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    Lofty Mount Lu, Shen Zhou On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in the National Palace Museum. Ink on paper, 76 x 36 inches (194 x 98 cm). According to the accompanying description on GAP, the artist painted this to mark the 70th birthday of his teacher, in a compositional approach…

  • Julio Reyes

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    Working in oil, tempera and graphite, California artist Julio Reyes achieves a delicate balance between visceral realism and etherial concept. In a solo exhibition titled “Vessels” that is on view at Arcadia Contemporary in NYC from tomorrow, November 13 through November 30, 2014, Reyes visits repeated themes of contemplative figures amid metallic balloons, perhaps suggestive…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Mignon still life

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    Still Life with Fruit and a Cup on Cock’s Legs, Abraham Mignon In the Rijksmuseum. Ostensibly a still life, Mignon’s not-so-still composition is actually teeming with insect, arachnid and mollusk life, in addition to the beautifully rendered plant forms and man made objects — not to mention the cock’s leg base for the decorative cup…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Whittredge’s Trout Pool

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    The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the younger generation of the Hudson River School painters, Whittredge often favored intimate forest scenes as much as large dramatic landscapes. Here, through the framing device of the dark mature trees, their leafy canopy and the fallen log, we are invited to…

  • Paul Gustave Fischer

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    Danish painter Paul Gustave Fischer, active during the late 19th and early 20 centuries, was noted for his urban scenes, many of them set in the light of overcast days, rainy or snowy conditions, with soft edges, muted colors and restrained value ranges. He painted frequently in Copenhagen, as well as in Paris, Florence and…