Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen street scene
Amsterdam Street Scene, Adrianus Eversen In the National Gallery of Art, DC. I just love late-18th, early 19th century Dutch townscapes. They’re wonders of texture. Eversen’s are looser and more painterly than most.
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More graphite drawings from the Met
As I pointed out in my post on the same subject from March 30 of this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a treasure trove of drawings in its extensive collections, most of which are rarely seen because of the fragile nature of drawings and their susceptibility to light damage. The…
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As I was saying, before we were so rudely interrupted…
My apologies to those who have had trouble accessing Lines and Colors over the last few days. The site has been experiencing a technical issue that caused those who were accessing the home page with a “www” in the URL to encounter a database error message. Though the underlying issue isn’t thoroughly resolved, there is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s river
River, Frits Thaulow On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bergen Kunstmuseum. I just love the way Thaulow handles the depiction of water, particularly the surface of small streams. I can’t think of anyone who does it better. For more, see my previous posts on Frits Thaulow.
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Walton Ford
Walton Ford is a well known American contemporary artist based in New York. His large scale watercolor and gouache paintings take inspiration from the intricately detailed paintings by 19th century naturalists like John James Audubon. Walton takes that genre’s conventions as a launching point for his excursions into oblique cultural and historic commentary on colonialism,…