Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Leo Mancini-Hresko

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    Massachusetts artist Leo Mancini-Hresko studied at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and then in Italy at the Florence Academy of Art, where he stayed on after graduation as an instructor and later director of the drawing program for sculptors. Having returned to the U.S., where he established a studio in Waltham, MA,…

  • Evert Dijkstra

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    Evert Dijkstra was a Dutch painter active in the late 20th century and the early part of this one, up until his death in 2008. He was originally a graphic designer, woodcarver and sculptor, and took up still life in the 1980s. Apart from that, I know frustratingly little. I haven’t been able to find…

  • Barbara Pihos

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    Illinois artist Barbara Pihos works in the traditional printmaking techniques of etching and aquatint. She begins her landscapes with field sketches, which are the basis for more detailed compositions drawn directly into the acid resist on her zinc plates. She gives a brief overview of her process, and the etching/aquatint process in general, on her…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Claude landscape with mythological figures

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    Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, Claude Lorrain On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Hi-res file on Wikimedia Commons. See my previous posts on Claude Lorrain, and here.

  • Ellen Cooper

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    Ellen Cooper is a contemporary American portrait artist whose refined painting style and approach to her subjects has garnered her numerous awards and prominent mention in several publications. She studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and pursued additional study under contemporary portrait masters Burton Silverman and Daniel Greene. Cooper’s website portfolio is…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour asters and fruit

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    Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow. I find it fascinating that Fantin-Latour has de-emphasized the glass vase — likely a star part of the composition in the hands of many other artists — and emphasized instead the textural surface of both the flowers…