Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Fanny Churberg (Update)

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    19th century Finnish landscape painter Fanny Churberg studied in Helsinki, Düsseldorf, and Paris. She carried from the painters of the Düsseldorf school a love of plain air painting and intently observed landscapes. I love her brushy, textural paint application, best seen if you zoom in or download the high-resolution images of her paintings. I first…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Matthias Stom

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    The Adoration of the Shepherds, Matthias Stom (also called Stomer); oil on canvas, I don’t have size information; link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Palazzo Madama, Turin. Stom was a 17th century Dutch (or Flemish) painter known for his paintings done in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Asano Takeji woodblock print

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    Snow at Ginkakuji Temple, Asano Takeji, woodblock print, sheet size 10 x 14 inches (26 x 36 cm); links is to Ukiyo-e Search, large file here. Asano Takeji was a 20th century Japanese printmaker who worked in the manner of both the shin hanga (new prints) and sōsaku hanga (creative prints) schools of woodblock printmaking.…

  • Harold Knight

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    Harold Knight was an English painter active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, and the husband of noted painter Laura Knight (née Laura Johnson), who he met when both were art students. Harold Knight was known as a portraitist and genre painter. I find his formal portraits of men to be well executed…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted’s Sunlit Winter Landscape

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    Sunlit Winter Landscape, Peder Mørk Mønsted, oil on canvas, 28 x 39 inches (72 x 98 cm); Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, large version can be found here. Another beautiful winter scene Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted, who I count as one of my favorite landscape painters. I love the suggestion of a delicate tracery…

  • Martina Krupičková

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    Martina Krupičková is a czech painter who focuses on landscape and cityscape. Her website is in both Czech and English, with the English paragraphs right after the Czech ones. Krupičková paints with painting knives. By varying her marks, she avoids the uniform sameness I sometimes see in paintings done entirely with a painting knife. She…