Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Duane Keiser’s Transitory Paintings

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    It’s not uncommon for artists to paint over, or scrape off and repaint, existing paintings. Oil paintings, in particular, lend themselves to this process, and a number of historical paintings have been shown by art forensics to have been painted over or repainted many times. Normally, the goal is a finished painting that is better…

  • Sargent’s portrait of Roosevelt

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    Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent Today is “Presidents Day” here in the U.S. — originally “Washington’s Birthday”, but now an all-purpose Washington and Lincoln birthday holiday, marked primarily by aggressively advertised sales of mattresses and cars. (Maybe that says something about U.S. presidents, I don’t know.) Though perhaps not one of Sargent’s most memorable…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Giovanni Boltraffio portrait

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    Portrait of a boy as saint Sebastian, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Though the subject of this portrait by Giovanni Boltraffio may look feminine at first glance, the experts assure us by the title that it is, in fact, a boy. It might be pointed out, however, that the experts also attributed the painting to Leonardo da…

  • Tissot’s Kathleen Newton

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    In 1875, French painter and printmaker James Jacques-Joseph Tissot met divorcee Kathleen Newton, and fell for her head-over-brushes. They had a scant seven years together before he was devastated by her death from tuberculosis in 1882. During that time, which Tissot described as the happiest in his life, he painted and drew Newton and her…

  • Gallery of the Golden Age, Amsterdam

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    Art museums are like icebergs, in that only a small part of their collection is visible at any given time. It’s always a plus when museums manage to display normally unseen works in different venues. Three museums in Amsterdam, the Rijskmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum and the Hermitage Amsterdam, are launching a joint long-term exhibit, called…

  • Tom Root

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    Tom Root is a painter and portraitist who studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut and the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida, and currently resides in Tennessee. Root’s work often has a fascinating quality of combining elements of drawing and painting in the same piece. In many of his…