Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Robert Heilman
When I came across the work of Pennsylvania painter Robert Heilman at the F.A.N. Gallery here in Philadelphia today, I was initially captivated by his direct, painterly approach, deft use of light and controlled color. It was on further looking through the show that I began to notice some fascinating patterns in Heilman’s work. One…
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Eye Candy for Today: The Trellis by Gustave Courbet
The Trellis by Gustave Courbet. On Google Art Project. Click on image for Zoom controls. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.
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Picturing Autumn on Tor.com
Here in the northern hemisphere, today is the first day of Autumn, AKA the Autumnal Equinox (and of course it’s the beginning of Spring down under, where they do everything upside backwards). An equinox is a point in the Earth’s orbit in which the tilted axis of our planet’s rotation is neither toward or away…
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Canaletto — Guardi: The two masters of Venice
“Veduta”, from the Italian for “view” is a subset of landscape painting and graphics in which the artist creates a reasonably accurate, usually large and detailed representation of a specific place. Most often the view is of a city that is remote and exotic to the intended audience for the works. The genre reached a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh View of Paris
View of Paris, Vincent van Gogh. Every time you think you know Van Gogh, he turns around and surprises you. From the Van Gogh Museum. On Google Art Project.
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Dinotopia: Art, Science and Imagination at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in CT
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will not be surprised that I am an admirer the work of illustrator/writer/painter James Gurney. (Let’s see.. beautifully painted illustration with influences from great 19th century artists and Golden Age illustrators, fantastical adventure stories with lushly imaginative settings, Hudson River valley landscape painting and plein air painting, and…