Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Jeremy Lipking (update)

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    WhenI first wrote about contemporary American painter Jeremy Lipking back in 2006, I was struck in particular with his subtle and masterful understanding of value, and its relationship to color. That impression has only been reinforced by the work I’ve seen from Lipking since then. His figures and faces, along with an occasional still life…

  • Self-portraits #7

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    “Selfies” were in the news again today, as the press evidently felt that the U.S. president taking one of himself and some other world leaders at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a newsworthy event (sigh). Here are some more artists’ “selfies”, done with brush or graphite. (Images above: Diego Rivera, George Tooker, Frits Thaulow, Jean…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Caillebotte’s rooftops in snow

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    Rooftop View (Snow effect), Gustave Caillebotte On the Google Art Project. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. There is also a high res image (7.7mb) and short article on Wikipedia. One of my favorite paintings. By anyone. Ever. You’ll see versions of this image on the web, or even in print, in which the color…

  • Self-portraits #6 ("maybe selfies")

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    Here are a few images that, for one or more reasons, have been suggested to be presumed, probable or possible self-portraits of artists for whom there is a shortage of definitive ones. To me, there is often a certain look in the eyes of a self-portrait — one that I think comes from the mental…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Venice

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    Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, Joseph Mallord William Turner Another of Turner’s magically luminous excursions into Venice. Turner gives us three worlds here — the city and sky, the reflections in the water, and the surface of the water. Look at what he does with the shadows of of unseen objects in the…

  • David Larned

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    David Larned is a portrait artist, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, who also paints still life and landscape. Larned uses a restrained palette, and often a restrained range of values, giving his work a strong feeling of harmony. In his portraits, which range from formal and corporate to informal and family oriented, he seems to…