Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rubens’ portrait of wife, son and self

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    Rubens, His Wife Lelena Fourment, and Their Son Frans, Peter Paul Rubens This painting, showing the artist with his second wife and their son, is part affection, part pride and part advertisement for the artist’s prowess as a painter. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.

  • Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

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    Of the thirty four (or so, depending on questions of attribution) known paintings by the remarkable Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, three are currently in London’s National Gallery. Two are in the permanent collection: A Young Woman standing at a Virginal (a virginal is a type of harpsichord) and A Young Woman seated at a Virginal.…

  • Eye Candy For Today: Roesen still life

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    Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, Severin Roesen Somehow, Roesen, one of America’s premier 19th century still life painters, manages to make this arrangement look simultaneously lurid, bizarre and naturalistic. I love the handling of the plums and the little droplets of water scattered about. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom…

  • Richard Oversmith

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    North Carolina painter Richard Oversmith studied in Michigan at the Kendall College of Art and Design, and in the UK, at the Royal College of Art in London. He brought his experience back to his home state, and finds there, as well as in his travels abroad and elsewhere in the US, a range of…

  • Remedios Varo

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    My stepdaughter recently wrote me while vacationing in Mexico and mentioned that she had encountered the work of an artist I might like, if I was not already familiar with her, named Remedios Varo. As it happens, I was not familiar with Varo, and on investigating (bless the internet’s glowing electronic heart) I’m genuinely surprised…

  • Three paintings of asparagus

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    In contrast to the elaborate still life arrangements common to his late seventeenth century contemporaries, Dutch painter Adriaen Coort is noted for his simple still life subjects. His simply staged but striking Still life with Asparagus, depicting a bunch of plump white asparagus on the corner of a table (images above, top, with detail) is…