Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • The Floods at Port Marly – Alfred Sisley

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    Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (one of my favorites and in my opinion underrated) was more than any of the other French Impressionists devoted to the depiction of water, streams and in particular, the Seine River. Sisley painted several canvasses of the flooding of the Seine at Port Marly in 1872 and 1876. The three paintings…

  • The tempests of Ivan Aivazovsky

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    Those of us on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. are either experiencing or bracing for the impact of Hurricane Irene, the outer bands of which are starting to drop heavy rain and whip up heavier winds here in Philadelphia as I write. It put me in mind of the storm paintings of Russian (Crimean)…

  • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

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    For as long as I’ve been visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art there has been a small painting called “Head of Christ” (image above, top) in the museum’s John G. Johnson collection of European Art (larger but somewhat oversaturated version here). It is a small but strikingly beautiful painting, 14 x 12 inches (36 x…

  • Femke Hiemstra

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    Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra paints her richly detailed and wonderfully textural paintings of animals (anthropomorphic and otherwise), odd characters and fantastical landscapes on found objects. Her odd shaped “canvases” are the covers of old books, wooden holy water fonts and antique wooden panels. Her mixed media pieces also include typography, sometimes completing the illusion that…

  • 1896 Paintings on Wikimedia Commons

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    Lets set the Wayback Machine and take a walk through the year 1896 by way of the Wikimedia Commons page for that category. Yes, the image quality is uneven, but there are gems to be found, and this is just a selection from the introductory page for this category. You can drill down into subcategories,…

  • Charles E. Williams II

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    I’ve always been fascinated with works of realism in which the representational image, which presents an illusion of reality, transitions to obvious marks on paper or paint strokes on canvas at the edges, allowing us to see both the drawn or painted illusion and the reality of marks on a surface in the same image.…