Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Anders Zorn: some highlights

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    In my previous post on the brilliant Swedish painter Anders Zorn here on Lines and Colors, I concentrated on the exhibition currently at the National Academy Museum in New York (until May 18, 2014). I wanted to follow up with a more general selection of some of Zorn’s wonderfully painterly works, and some general resources…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bernard Hall still life

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    After Dinner, Bernard Hall Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Any one of the smaller groupings here would have made a superb still life — the bowl and lemon, the decanter and creamer, the teacup and apertif…

  • Lynn Boggess

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    In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess, however, “troweled on” literally applies to his painting method. Boggess works in a manner associated with painting…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thayer’s Roses

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    Roses, Abbott Handerson Thayer On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this piece in person; if you’re at the Smithsonian, it’s worth seeking out (not that there aren’t other treasures aplenty in the same collection.) According to The…

  • Mykola Pymonenko

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    Born just outside of Kiev, 19th century artist Mykola Pymonenko spent most of his career portraying the land and people of his native Ukraine. He became a member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, but also exhibited with the more progressive Society of South Russian Artists and the Peredvizhniki. (See my Lines and Colors…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Breitner’s Girl in a White Kimono

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    Girl in a White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner In the Rijksmuseum. One of several paintings Breitner did of young women posing languidly in kimonos. See the Artcyclopedia entry for more resources on Breitner.