Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Ingres at the Morgan

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    Throughout my life I’ve been fortunate to experience a series of wonderful “Ah-Ha!” moments when I’ve come across a new genre or artist that made me feel like I was opening my eyes on a new world. Discovering the graphite portrait drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres when I was an art student was one of them.…

  • Isabel Guerra

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    Sister Isabel Guerra is a nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa Lucia, Zaragoza in Spain. She is a self-taught painter whose work in oil is often strikingly realistic, at times leaning to classical styles, at other times with more modern elements. Though she also paints landscapes and still lifes, her primary subjects are portraits…

  • Jack Morefield

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    Boston based painter Jack Morefield paints large scale acrylic paintings, usually portraits and often of contemporary music, pop culture or even literary figures, in which the image is composed of swirling arrangements of colored strands. These strands, or bands if you prefer, are at times more or less defined; Morefield works with their edges as…

  • Brian Blood (update)

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    I came across an mention of his name the other day that made me want to revisit the work of California plein air painter Brian Blood. There are now literally hundreds of his subtle but richly colored paintings on his website. Don’t miss the fascinating series in which he paints the interiors of California Missions.…

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

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    Though we have hundreds of his drawings, we have precious few of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings. Depending on questions of attribution, perhaps 15 survive, of only 20 or so known works painted in his lifetime (see the list of extant works on Wikipedia). Of Leonardo’s existing paintings, more than half of them, 9 works, will…

  • John Budicin

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    California based painter John Budicin often works with a muted palette and seeks out subjects with subtle value contrasts, though he also works with higher contrast subjects in a brighter range of color. I particularly enjoy those compositions in which he places the foreground and subject in shadow, with more brightly lit objects in the…