Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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…

  • Cornelis Vreedenburgh

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    Cornelis Vreedenburgh was a Dutch painter active in the early 20th century, whose work is wonderfully painterly, richly colored and beautifully atmospheric. I can find little information about him, and only one image archive with a significant number of paintings: WikiPaintings. The reproductions there, however, are a bit small to appreciate how terrific Vreedenburgh’s paint…

  • Jacques-Émile Blanche

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    Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French painter and portrait artist active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was friends with Marcel Proust, whose portrait he painted (above, top), as well as other literary and artistic figures of the time such as Aubrey Beardsley (second down). I haven’t found a lot of information on…