Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Stow Wengenroth

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    In this age where we’re bombarded from all sides by color — often intense and accompanied by motion — it’s easy to become jaded and insensitive to the visual charms of monochromatic images. Just as we sometimes need to turn off the screens and the fast pace of moden life in order to appreciate the…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Rembrandt etching

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    The Adoration of the Shepherds, with the lamp, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching, roughly 6 x 7″ (14 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum’s page indicates this is the first of three states. I looked around a bit but I can’s find a later state, though several major…

  • Ella Du Cane

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    Ella Du Cane was a Victorian watercolorist known for her paintings of various parts of the world — in particular, her delicate watercolors that obviously carry the influence of the colorful Japanese woodblock prints that were becoming increasingly popular in Europe and the UK at the time. With her sister, Florence, Du Cane traveled to…

  • Mucha’s interpretations of Winter

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    Three of Czech artist and designer Alphonse Mucha’s images depicting winter. Reproductions of Mucha’s work on the web are so erratic and miscolored, one of the few places I trust is the Mucha Foundation, which I’ve linked to for the first two images. I can’t find the other, except for stores selling reproductions. Happy Winter…

  • Alessandro Tofanelli

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    Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli’s haunting landscapes conjure a feeling of stillness and solitude. Whether that’s a positive or negative is, I think, somewhat indeterminate. He paints in Italy, however — for me — his emphasis on scenes on or at the edge of water feel particularly evocative of the time I spent as a child…

  • David Bottini (update)

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    David Bottini is a contemporary painter whose paintings are often filled with dappled light — sparkling on the surface of streams, highlighting paths and glinting off of bright autumn leaves. His paintings are rendered in acrylic, but in a painstaking method involving layers and layers of glazes; a method inspired by his love of the…