Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Inspirations

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    Inspirations is a beautifully realized and wonderfully conceived short CGI animated film by Cristóbal Vila. It is a homage to the works of artist M.C. Escher, conceived as Vila’s fanciful imagining of the artist’s workspace, filled with objects that refer to aspects of Escher’s work On his website, Etérea Studios, Vila provides information about the…

  • Closer to Van Eyck

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    Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece is an online presentation of the results of a research project that examined the artist’s extraordinary masterwork in extreme detail, both to assess and record its condition for conservation. The site opens up with a full image of the panels of the altarpiece; from there you can…

  • The Public Domain Review

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    I’d like to talk (well OK, rant) for a minute about copyright and the principle of public domain. “Public domain” is a term referring to works that have passed out of copyright, or have been deliberately assigned to the public domain on creation (for example when created for the U.S. government), and therefore now belong…

  • Mary Jane Ansell

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    UK artist Mary Jane Ansell has been a finalist in the prestigious National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award in 2004, 2009 and 2010 (see my post on the 2011 BP Portrait Award). Her portraits and other figurative paintings are elegant and highly refined, both in their paint handling and in her use of light to…

  • Sam Vokey

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    Boston based painter Sam Vokey paints still life, landscapes and portraits in a crisp, clear, realist style. Though the surface of his paintings often looks refined, he never crosses over into the stiffness of photorealism, and maintains a painterly edge. His palette ranges from muted to bright as the subject warrants. His still life paintings,…

  • Matt Smith

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    Arizona artist Matt Smith paints en plein air in locations across the Western U.S. Smith studied in the Fine Arts program of Arizona State University, but somewhat disenchanted with the abstract emphasis of the program, pursued independent study of American Western artists like Maynard Dixon, William Herbert Dunton, and Edgar Payne. Smith has also studied…