Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pedro Alexandrino still life
Grapes and Peaches, Pedro Alexandrino On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. A beautiful still life by a turn of the 20th century Brazilian artist I stumbled across on the Google Art Project. I’ll see if I can dig up more for…
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Kathleen Dunphy
Northern California artist Kathleen Dunphy works both in the studio and on location, but even her studio landscapes have the kind of fresh immediacy often associated with painting on location. In her pursuit of the character of light evocative of particular times of day, seasons and weather conditions, she employs a crisp, direct and painterly…