Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • David Gray

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    David Gray paints elegant, refined still life paintings and beautifully realized portraits in the classical realist tradition. In both his portraits and still life paintings, he evokes a feeling of stillness and contemplation, though in the portraits that feeling is often pierced by the quiet but intense aliveness projected by his subjects. Similarly, Gray works…

  • Manabu Ikeda

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    Though I doubt they were intended to be so, the striking works of Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda, seen at this juncture, can seem chillingly prophetic. The structures, shapes and waves of objects in his work are portrayed as enormous in scale, as revealed by the astonishingly complex textural elements of countless smaller items of which…

  • Mucha’s The Slav Epic

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    Most people who are familiar in passing with Art Nouveau artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (see my recent post on Alphonse Mucha on Gallica Digital Library) are not aware of his body of work that is in a very different style. The most important and striking examples of this are a series of 20 very large…

  • Clark Hulings at the Forbes Galleries

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    Clark Hulings, a superb American artist I wrote about in 2009, died in February of this year. In what is being described as his last show of new work, The Forbes Galleries in New York will host a show titled Clark Hulings: An American Master from March 23 to September 10, 2011. The exhibition will…

  • Alphonse Mucha on Gallica Digital Library

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    Pecay from Bibliodyssey, who has a knack for these things, points us to a nice selection of posters from Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha, the Czech artist whose name is essentially synonymous with “Art Nouveau”. The images are on the Gallica Digital Library, produced by the National Library of France. There are three pages of images (arrows…

  • Sherrie McGraw

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    Sherrie McGraw paints subtle, refined still life paintings that combine the feeling of traditional Dutch masters with the more modern sensibilities of contemporary paint handling; in which crisply defined objects shine out of their deep chiaroscuro relationships with their backgrounds. She also paints forceful portraits and figures, in which the same relationships are heightened by…