Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Keiko Tanabe
Originally from Kyoto, Japan and now living in San Diego, California, watercolor artist Keiko Tanabe has traveled extensively and applied her eye and brush to scenes from Japan, China, France, Italy and the U.S. Her beautifully atmospheric watercolors capture a sense of time and place, accomplished with careful control of color, suggestions of texture and…
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Robert Beck
Contemporary representational painter Robert Beck paints many of the same subjects as other plein air painters, but often with a different perspective and intention. Where others might paint a landmark or familiar scene, Beck looks for the often ignored aspects behind or within the commonplace that put a scene in context — the back rooms,…
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Artist Carol Marine’s house lost to fire
Artist Carol Marine, who I have previously featured here on Lines and Colors, has lost her house and studio to the wildfires currently ravaging parts of Texas. The fire devastated their entire subdivision. She and her husband and their son were not harmed, but they were able to take only what they could carry when…
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Jean-François Millet
Today is “Labor Day” here in the U.S., a holiday set aside to honor the economic and social contributions of working people to the society. Ironically, the holiday has come to represent leisure — a three day weekend signifying the unofficial end of Summer. Perhaps, in the midst of a current political climate in which…
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Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs is an Austrian painter, printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and architect who was one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, and remains its most prominently known member. Like the other members of that school, Fuchs took much of his inspiration from the painting techniques and detailed realism of the early Flemish…
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Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, AKA Caravaggio, notorious bad boy of art, rebellious realist and master of chiaroscuro, spent much of his life, with all of its dramatic ups and downs, in Rome. His wild behavior and the scandalous brushes with heresy brought on by his insistence on using unrepentantly grungy commonfolk for his models in…