Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Vasily Polenov

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    Vasily Polenov was one of the remarkable group of Russian painters known as the Peredvizhniki, whose members included such luminaries as Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, Alexei Savrasov, Issac Levitan and others (see my article on Painting.Answers.com). Polenov focused on landscapes and religious scenes. He brought to to both a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck's Marchesa Balbi

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    Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. I’m not always fond of Van Dyck’s more stylized poses, but here, in a reserved, classical portrait of a member of the Geonese aristocracy, Van…

  • Santiago Rusiñol

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    For a long time, my only impression of Santiago Rusiñol was of the painting Interior of a Café (images above, second down), which is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I liked the painting, with its odd emotional and visual tone and interesting use of value relationahips, but I didn’t follow up on the artist…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Metcalf nocturne

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    May Night, Willard Metcalf There is an article on Wikipedia that gives background on the painting. The original is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

  • Eye Candy for Today: The Merode Altarpiece

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    Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), Workshop of Robert Campin Here we find the early 15th century artist(s) diving headlong into the capabilities of the newly adopted medium of oil painting, exploring its capacity for layers of richly colored glazes and almost infinite ability to accommodate the desire for minute detail. The entire triptych, open, is only…

  • Mark Boedges

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    Originally from St. Louis and now based in Burlington, Vermont, where he and his wife recently opened a gallery, Mark Boedges is a plein air painter who finds similar geometric strength in compositions of creeks strewn with ics age boulders and trainyards lined with freight cars or ships at harbor. In all of his plein…