Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Carolyn Pyfrom

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    Carolyn Pyfrom is a painter based here in Philadelphia whose rough edged textural style, coupled with strongly geometric compositions, gives her work a satisfying sense of unity and visual strength. She works with a muted, carefully controlled palette that further serves to accentuate the textural quality of her work. Pyfrom studied Japanese art and culture…

  • Richard Bunkall

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    In a fascinating series, Pasadena artist Richard Bunkall explored juxtapositions of building facades with airships, locomotives, ships and whales, along with quotes from Mellville and other sources. Older series focus on movie theater marquees and building faces, as well as more straightforward cityscapes. All are rendered with Bunkall’s wonderfully textural approach, in which a muted…

  • Eyvind Earle website

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    Since I last wrote about remarkable artwork of ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle back in 2009, the long promised EvyindEarle.com website has been published. Though navigation is somewhat clunky, this is now a good resource on Earle, with a large selection of his work. Many of the serigraphs…

  • Justin Gerard’s Silmarillion at Gallery Nucleus

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    The wonderful fantasy art of Justin Gerard, who I have written about previously, is on display this month at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, as part of an exhibition dedicated to his visual interpretation of J. R. R. Tolken’s The Silmarillion. The show features numerous watercolors and drawings. You can also find a selection of…

  • The Painterly Voice, Pennsylvania Impressionism

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    Pennsylvania Impressionism is a term rather loosely applied to a group of late 19th and early 20th century painters who lived and worked in and around the artist colony that existed at the time in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey, small towns that straddle either side of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia.…

  • Rembrandt’s Supper at Emmaus

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    The Biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, in which Jesus appears to, and later has a meal with two of his disciples after his resurrection, is a repeated theme in the history Christian art. The most famous example is the striking composition by Carravaggio. Rembrandt’s portrayal of the scene is less familiar, and is…