Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Galactik Trading Cards

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    Galactik Trading Cards are collectable cards printed with images of work from over 100 artists from the fields of visionary art, magic realism, contemporary surrealism, fantasy art and related genres. Some of the artists are among the most recognized names in their genres, other are new or less well known. The initiative’s website has galleries…

  • Pierre Adolphe Valette

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    Little known Impressionist painter Pierre Adolphe Valette was born in St. Etienne, an industrial city in France, and spent much of his career living and working in Manchester, an industrial city in the north of England. He studied in France at the fine arts school in Bordeaux, and in England took evening classes at the…

  • Chet Zar, Dan Quintana and Mark Garro at CoproGallery

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    In what I believe is not exactly a group show but three coordinated solo shows that run concurrently and shared an opening, the CoproGallery in Santa Monica, California is showing the work of Chet Zar, Dan Quintana, Mark Garro. The gallery has provided previews of the work of all three artists (links in above paragraph).…

  • Van Gogh on 60 Minutes/Overtime

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    This Sunday, October 16, 2011, the CBS TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes is doing a feature on Vincent van Gogh, focusing on a new biography, Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, that suggests Van Gogh may not have taken his own life as has been commonly assumed. Immediately after the television…

  • Hiroshi Yoshida (update)

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    Early 20th Century painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida is known in his native Japan as a Western style artist, and his work is very much in demand. Having trained in Western style painting, he carried those influences with him when he moved into traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, also taking inspiration in subjects from his travels…

  • Sebastian Stoskopff

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    Sebastian Stoskopff (alternately Sébastien Stoskopff) was a 17th Century painter from Alsace, a German-speaking region of France, though he spent the core of his productive years in Paris. Stoskopff’s work was “rediscoved” in the 1930’s, with an appreciation for the intensely focused realism and detailed handling of his still life paintings, as well as the…