Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Mina dela Cruz

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    Mina dela Cruz is a painter specializing in still life and portraiture. Originally from the Philippines, she now lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her website has galleries of still life, portrait painting and portrait drawings. In her still life, in particular, I find that sense of quiet contemplation that still life painters can sometimes…

  • Rosa Bonheur

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    I first took notice of the work of 19th century painter Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, more commonly known as Rosa Bonheur, when I was struck by her beautiful landscape of the Forest of Fontainebleau (images above, bottom) in an exhibition at the National Gallery in DC in 2008. Even among works by Corot, Rousseau, Monet and Sisley,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: David double portrait

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    Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques Louis David David’s portrait of the famous French chemist and his wife, Marie Lavoiser, née Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, includes some of Antoine-Laurent Lavoiser’s experimental equipment. Marie Lavoiser was a student of David’s, and illustrated treatises on her husband’s experiments with extensive, detailed drawings of his scientific equipment.

  • The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free

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    The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free is an exhibition at the Tate Britain in London, that explores the later, sometimes controversial, work of brilliant British painter J.M.W. Turner. Some of the work was controversial in Turner’s experimental approach to composition, rendering, and portrayal of light, notably the further dissolution of form into…

  • Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (update)

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    Dutch-born 19th century painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema spent the majority of his highly successful career in England, where his meticulously crafted depictions of decadent luxury cast in the settings of classical antiquity were in high demand. Alma-Tadema was one of the most highly regarded Victorian painters of the time, and was tremendously influential on other…

  • Colin Fraser

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    Originally from Scotland and now living and working in southern Sweden, Colin Fraser paints his luminous still life, landscape and figurative subjects in the painstaking medium of egg tempera. Fraser’s dedication to egg tempera is notable given the time consuming nature of the medium and the scale at which he works. Almost all of Fraser’s…