Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Zdzisław Beksiński

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    Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, sculptor and photographer known for his darkly dystopian fantastic realism. His intricately rendered images of other worldly or post-apocalyptic landscapes, often populated with deathly or skeletal figures, are heavily atmospheric, as if filled with a mist of miasma and corruption. He has a sequence of images of cathedrals dissolving…

  • Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Mucha) (update)

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    In my previous post about Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Mucha), I pointed out that I think his place in art history has been drastically undervalued. Partly because we think of his work, and the Art Noveau movement with which he was inextricably linked, as “decorative”, “pretty” and basically lightweight, his influence and achievements, and…

  • Reconstructing Martha Washington

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    It’s President’s Day here in the U.S., and though it’s nice to contemplate the changes that will hopefully come from the presence of a new and very different president, the holiday is dedicated to past presidents, most specifically the first U.S. president, George Washington, whose birthday the holiday marks and was originally named for. Our…

  • Edmond Aman-Jean

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    Edmond Aman-Jean was a French Symbolist painter who was friends with Georges Seurat, the famed neo-impressionist (pointillist) painter, and shared a studio with him for a number of years. Aman-Jean and Seurat both studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Henri Lehmann, an academic painter whose traditions they both eventually moved away from.…

  • Allpaintings Art Portal

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    One of the best things about the internet is its exponential rate of growth. If there’s something you can’t find today, wait a few years (or months, or days) and it just may pop up. “All things”, to paraphrase the zen-like passage from the Bible, “come to he who waits.” When I started writing Lines…

  • Drew Struzan (update)

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    Drew Struzan is one of the most widely recognized and influential poster artists of modern times. In addition, he is a versatile illustrator of book and comic covers, music LP and CD covers, advertising and other product illustrations. I wrote about Struzan back in 2007. Since then his website has been redone with many additional…