Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Chris Ryniak

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    On his blog Chris Ryniak describes himself as “monster & critter maker”. On his website you will find galleries of his monsters & critters both as paintings (also here) and as small scale sculptures in epoxy, glass, vinyl and acrylic. My timing is a little off with this post, in that his show at MyPlasticHeart…

  • Margarita (Hampa Studio)

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    Margarita is a beautifully designed, drawn and realized animated short (about 12 minutes long) from Hampa Studio. Another example of small independent studios doing high level work, this award winning story follows the adventures of a young princess (lived in the imagination of our actual protagonist, a young girl being read the story by her…

  • Southwest Art Magazine

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    Southwest Art is a print magazine devoted to American Western art, with a focus on contemporary artists. The magazine is a division of F+W Media, and is related to sister publications that include The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist and The Pastel Journal. They post a number of full articles from the magazine on their website,…

  • Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art

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    Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art. The image bank itself can be searched and browsed by theme, timeline, or style. The image previews are zoomable, though within a frustratingly small window. The animation, however, is larger. In it…

  • Van Gogh’s self-portraits

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    For an artist so prolific, from whom over 850 paintings and 1,200 drawings have survived, it’s stunning to realize that Vincent van Gogh’s active career spanned only a single decade, from his decision to pursue art at age 27 in 1880, to his untimely death in 1890. During that time he produced over 30 self…

  • The Banishment of Beauty, Scott Burdick

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    Those who have been reading Lines and Colors over time may have noticed that despite the deliberate crossing of genres, and the mixture of different aspects of visual art, there is a common thread of art that takes its basic structure from the traditions of representational art, You may also know that I have often…