Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Yulia Brodskaya

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    Illustrator and gallery artist Yulia Brodskaya uses colored paper — cut and bent into strips and carefully arranged in linear, textural patterns — to create her images. This is a traditional technique called quilling. Brodskaya’s website has galleries of both her illustration and gallery art, though unfortunately reproduced in small images; which is odd, as…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rusiñol bridge

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    Bridge over a River, Santiago Rusiñol On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully direct painterly realism by the Catalonian painter. See my post on Santiago Rusiñol.

  • “Women Painting Women” at Principle Gallery, Charleston

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    “Women Painting Women” is a collaborative project, founded by Sadie Valeri, Alia El Bermani and Diane Feissel, that’s been represented by a blog since 2009, and showcased as an annual exhibition at the Principle Gallery in Charleston, SC for the past five years. The title is perfectly descriptive, and the list of highly skilled participating…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tanner’s Seine

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    The Seine, Henry Ossawa Tanner Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, zoomable version here; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Though not the subject matter for which he is best known, brilliant American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who spent most of his later career in France, painted a number of beautifully atmospheric…

  • Sally Tharp (update)

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    Since I last wrote about Sally Tharp four years ago, she has expanded her variety of approach and subject matter, added more work to her online portfolio, and is now represented by the Shain Gallery in Charlotte, NC. Her primary source of inspiration and fascination, however, remains with the way light cascades, reflects and refracts…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Work Interrupted

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    Work Interrupted, William-Adolphe Bouguereau Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Beautifully controlled values and subtle, reserved color in this fanciful depiction of a young woman distracted from her work of winding balls of wool by thoughts of romance — in the person of Cupid, who delicately dabs her…