Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Holyday

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    Holyday, James Tissot Sometimes listed as “The Picnic”. In the Tate Britain. Use Full Screen link under the image (or full size here). While today is not a Holyday (holiday), it is Tissot’s birthday, a nice day to welcome fall foliage and celebrate a wonderful and underrated painter.

  • Mikhail Klodt

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    Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (sometimes “Clodt”) was a 19th century Russian landscape painter and a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”), the group of Russian painters that broke away from the Academy to carry out their own traveling exhibitions. His work is not as well known here in the US as that of his…

  • 365 Postcards for Ants, Lorraine Loots

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    365 Postcards for Ants was a yearlong project, from January 1 to December 31 or 2013, in which South African artist Lorraine Loots set out to paint one miniature painting per day. Along the way, her process evolved into a kind of collaboration with visitors to her site who would “reserve” a painting, and suggest…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted forest landscape

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    Skogslandskap, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original, but I know it passed through Bukowski’s Auctions in the recent past, so I assume it’s in a private collection (not mine — sigh). I think the title can be translated as “forest landscape”. I never tire of Mønsted’s beautifully…

  • David Cheifetz

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    Painter David Cheifetz approaches his subjects — primarily still life but also cityscape and figurative— with enthusiastic use of value, color contrasts and painterly texture. You may have seen still life by various artists, notably David Leffel and some of his students, in which objects are made luminous by carrying their dominant color into the…

  • Simon Kozhin

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    Russian artist Simon Kozhin takes a painterly approach, often roughly textural in his location paintings, as he works with a variety of landscape subjects — both from his travels across Europe and the Mediterranean, and near his home in Moscow. He also takes on figurative and narrative subjects, and you can find an extensive selection…