Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Originally from Russia and now living in the U.S., Michael Cheval’s flights of imaginative visions might be called “magic realism”, though classifying this kind of work is always a slippery process. Certainly not “surrealism”, a term often used casually and incorrectly to describe fantastic art, though you may see nods to the visual language of…

I have to go on record as saying that Pierre Auguste Renoir is not one of my favorite painters. Certainly among the original French Impressionists, I find him the weakest and most inconsistent — not a painter at the level of his contemporaries in the Impressionist circle. Renoir was prolific, and I’ve seen enough bad…

Antti Rautiola is a painter and art director living in Helinski, Finland. On his website and his blog you will find examples of his work in plein air landscape and studio paintings, including paintings of his family. On his blog, in particular, you will find larger versions of his paintings, showing his loose, confident brushwork.…

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…