Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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.

  • James Freeman

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    Pennsylvania artist James Freeman describes his work as “Magic Realist oil paintings, a combination of landscape and still life”. Freeeman’s fascinating, often complex, compositions consist primarily of plant forms — though they often incorporate man-made objects — in which the context of our view of plants is shifted by his selection of point of view,…

  • 18th century paintings meet Google Street View

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    A reditt and imgur user who lives in London and goes by the handle “shystone” has posted two series of photomontages in which 18th century pantings are superimposed over Google Street View images of the same scene, creating in each a sort of artistic portal into the past. One set is of London, with paintings…