Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Aron Wiesenfeld

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    Aron Wiesenfeld’s paintings, though not actually narrative in the usual sense, carry an implied a narrative, a suggestion that you are glimpsing a scene for which relevant events are happening, or have happened, outside the scope of what is seen. In scenes that carry an atmosphere of isolation, his subjects, often young women, stare contemplatively…

  • Lebbeus Woods

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    Lebbeus Woods was a visionary experimental architect whose designs, though they were seldom realized as actual structures, were tremendously influential on a generation of architects. His work took on concepts generally considered beyond the purview of architecture, exploring aspects of life and human society as well as the nature of space as defined by structures…

  • Hey, America — vote!

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    Apparently there are some 90 million potential voters here in the U.S. who will not be exercising their right to vote today — perhaps too busy, too lazy, too put off by the relentless negativity of the campaigns, or just too unconcerned with the outcome of the election to be bothered. Maybe they simply think…

  • Walter Gay

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    In contrast to the cliché of the Bohemian starving artist, American painter Walter Gay lived something of a charmed life. He was the nephew of an established Boston painter, Winkworth Allen Gay, through whom he met and studied with William Morris Hunt. At Hunt’s suggestion, Gay moved to Paris and studied with the respected French…

  • Mucha Documentary

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    A documentary on the brilliant Czech painter and graphic artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha is available on YouTube. The video is in six parts and is narrated in English. As always, it’s uncertain how long things like this will remain available on YouTube. [Via Gurney Journey]

  • Picturing Archers on Tor.com

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    I’m happy to see that Irene Gallo is continuing her series of “Picturing…” posts, in which she uses her keen art director’s eye and delightfully eclectic taste to select a series of artworks on a particular theme (see my article on her post, “Picturing Autumn“). This time around her topic is “Picturing Archers“, a surprisingly…