Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration on Tor.com

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    In what I hope will become a regular feature, Irene Gallo, art director of Tor, Forge, Starscape and Tor.com, has reprised the idea behind her post from last December, Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration, as Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration. The basis of the original post was to ask several illustrators and art directors to…

  • Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

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    Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain (from his birthplace, the Duchy of Lorraine, once an independent nation in what it currently northeastern France), or simply as “Claude” (rhymes with “road”), was the most important landscape painter in the 17th century, and one of the most important and influential in the history of the genre.…

  • John Morra

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    Contemporary American painter John Morra paints elegantly refined still life canvasses of both common and unusual subjects. His website has galleries of his work in categories like Still Life, Food, Mixers and “Mertz” as well as Plein Air landscapes and Portraits. Morra says in his artists’ statement that he was influenced by Vermeer, and in…

  • Gabor Svagrik

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    Hungarian born Gabor Svagrik immigrated to the US with his family and studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He has also studied independently with a number of other painters. He now conducts workshops at the Tucson Art Academy, which he founded, and through that venue brings many well known painters to the…

  • The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, Claude Monet

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    I just love this particular painting by Monet, even though it is in some ways uncharacteristic of the work for which he is best known. In this early painting, done when he and several other early Impressionist painters had come to join their Barbizon compatriots in painting “en plein air” in the forest of Fontainebleu…

  • Realism from the USA & Canada at Peter Walker Fine Art

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    Despite the cross-pollination of images facilitated by the internet, the actual opportunities for art lovers on one continent to see work by contemporary artists from another are not as frequent as one might like. Peter Walker Fine Art, a gallery in South Australia, is featuring an exhibit of realist painters from the US and Canada…