Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Steve Smulka

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    Interestingly, the galleries of paintings on Steve Smulka’s website are divided into two sections: Women and Glass. Though seemingly disparate subjects, the relationship becomes more apparent when you observes his fascination with the way light affects both kinds of compositions. Light is transmitted and refracted through his glass objects, which include heavy jars and bottles…

  • Andrew Borg

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    Andrew Borg is a artist based in Malta, where he portrays that island nation’s Mediterranean sunlight in bright plein air watercolors. You can see in his approach his admiration for watercolor masters like John Singer Sargent. On Borg’s website you will find his portrayals of Malta’s dramatic rocky landscapes, formal gardens, sunlit streets, churches, and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Rainy Day

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    Rainy Day, Boston, Childe Hassam. “American Impressionism” (i.e. painterly realism) in the hands of one of its foremost proponents. On Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.

  • Healy’s Lincoln

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    Today is “Presidents’ Day” here in the U.S. Originally it was a celebration of the birthday of first president George Washington. A later holiday celebrating the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, also in February, was folded in, the day was moved to a Monday in the general vicinity of the dates, made a postal holiday and…

  • Animal Kingdom at Gallery Nucleus

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    The Animal Kingdom is a show that opened yesterday at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA and runs until March 3, 2013. (Images above: Christopher Buzelli, Jeremy Wilson, Juan Trevieso, Sachin Teng, Lucrezia Bieler, Bill Carman, Joy Ang, Bruce Jensen, Victo Ngai)

  • Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900

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    Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 is an exhibition that opens tomorrow, February 17, 2013, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. With over 130 objects — paintings, sculpture, works on paper and decorative art objects — mostly borrowed from the Tate Britain and the Birmingham Trust in the UK, along with three…