Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Paths to Impressionism

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have a particular fondness for painters at the edges of French Impressionism, both in terms of precursors to the Impressionist style and a range of other painters who were influenced by that style but took it in somewhat different directions, most notably the painters…

  • Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

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    I will wander off topic for a little personal background (“local color”, so to speak) and then come back. The town of Arles is in Provence, a region of France that borders the Mediterreanean Sea and Northern Italy, where the Romans established their first province (provincia) outside their borders (hence the name). Arles was one…

  • Thomas Paquette (update)

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    It’s always a treat for me to get to meet and talk to some of the contemporary artists I write about. This past Friday, I had the opportunity to attend an opening of a new show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery here in Philadelphia of works by Western Pennsylvania artist Thomas Paquette. I wrote about…

  • Anna Richards Brewster in American Art Review

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    Another quick magazine mention. Anna Richards Brewster, an under-sung American painter who I profiled recently, is featured in a 10-page article in the October, 2008 Issue of American Art Review. For $6 (U.S.), you get a nice overview of her work and 20 images. The article bears the same title as the current traveling exhibit,…

  • Arthur Streeton

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    The practice of painting outdoors (or en plein air, see my recent post on pochade boxes), spread from France, where it first came into wide practice, to other parts of Europe, America, and other parts of the world, largely through the impact the French painters had on artists from other countries who came to the…

  • New Web Site for The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I had the privilege of studying as a painting major, is the oldest art school in the United States. Modeled after the academic schools of Europe, it has a long tradition of training American artists and a correspondingly long history of collecting American art for its associated…