Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors know that I take great pleasure in many types of visual art, and that I like to blur and cross the lines between genres. In particular, I like to point out the artificiality of the distinction between illustration and “fine art”. Not that I don’t find it a…

  • Dream Anatomy

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    The study of human anatomy has long been a juncture of art and science. The dissection of cadavers, at times forbidden by the church and state, has been of fascination to artists as much as to those endeavoring to figure out how this wondrous collection of bones, flesh and fluids works. Just as the scientific…

  • Luther Emerson van Gorder

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    I discovered Luther van Gorder from a striking small painting of his that attracted my attention in the midst of some of the terrific French and American Impressionist work in the current Paths to Impressionism exhibit at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. The piece is called In the Park, showing women strolling in New…

  • Wang Hui

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    Wang Hui was a Chinese painter who gathered up influences from past masters and wove them into his own interpretation of their methods and techniques; and refreshed the traditions of Chinese painting in the process. Active during the early Qing period (17th Century), Wang was exposed at an early age to the influence of some…

  • Postcard from Provence
    (Julian Merrow-Smith)

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    Back in 2005 I found myself writing an arts oriented blog; partly because I enjoyed writing it, and partly because in the process I was discovering terrific artists I wouldn’t have sought out or encountered otherwise. One of them was Duane Keiser, who had originated the “painting a day” blog concept; painting daily postcard-size paintings,…

  • David Cox

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    David Cox is best known as a superb watercolorist during what was considered the “Golden Age” of watercolor (or watercolour, if you prefer the English spelling); though he also produced many drawings, and later in his career took up oil painting in addition to watercolor. Cox was the son of a blacksmith, and would have…