Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Pam Ingalls

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    Encouraged by her artist parents, Pam Ingalls studied at Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy and the art department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She continued independent study with, among others, Ron Lukas, a protégé of Russian-American painter Sergi Bongart. The influence of the Russian colorist tradition comes through in her rich palette.…

  • Thomas Woodruff

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    Like many artists, Thomas Woodruff finds fascination in pursuing the possibilities offered by a particular subject in a series of related works, or “variations”. He is best known for several series in which he explores images that can be viewed differently when flipped vertically (similar to Gustave Verbeek’s classic early 20th century newspaper comic, The…

  • Hokusai exhibit in Paris

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    Katsushika Hokusai is arguably the most widely known and influential Japanese artist outside of Japan. Usually referred to simply as Hokusai, the artist actually changed his name several times through his career. He was a proponent of the Ukiyo-e school of woodblock prints. A new exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris,…

  • 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…