Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • More "selfies"

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    Following the internet meme of the moment, more “selfies” created without benefit of iPhone or Android device, and previously uploaded into public consciousness by way of galleries, museums, books and libraries. See my previous post on “selfies“. (Images above, self-portraits by: Antony van Dyck, Frida Kahlo, John Singer Sargent, Hans Holbein the Younger, Chuck Close,…

  • Romona Youngquist

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    Romona Youngquist is a painter based in Oregon whose paintings of pastoral fields and farms are rendered with a wonderful variety of textural effects. She appears to use drybrush, scraping, stratching and a variety of painting knife effects, in addition to her painterly brushwork, to achieve a wide range of textures and passages of broken…

  • "Selfies"

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    I am told by the internets that “selfie” has been chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year. Helpless as I am to swim against the mighty tide of popular culture, I give you a few interesting “selfies” done without benefit of iPhone. I’ve started with Durer’s remarkable self-portrait at the age of 13…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour fruit, flowers, cup and book

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    Still Life, Henri Fantin-Latour Another Fantin-Latour-de-force (sorry, couldn’t resist) still life in which the 19th century French master serves up more of his yummy, painterly style. Link above is to Wikipedia, from which you can access a reasonably high-resolution file. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C.

  • Emile Claus

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    In his early career, 19th century Belgian painter Emile Claus painted portraits and genre subjects in a reserved academic style. In 1888 he moved to Paris for a time, where he encountered the works of the French Impressionists, and came to know Claude Monet, Henri Le Sidaner and Frits Thaulow. From those influences and others,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: William Fraser Garden bridge

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    St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire; William Fraser Garden Watercolor, pen and gray ink, with touches of gouache on paper, 14×18 in (35x46cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom or download arrow.