Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

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    Jakob Schmutzer Was an Austrian artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was primarily an engraver, and also a painter, but what I find most appealing, and what you will find most often if you research his work on the internet, are his chalk drawings. His drawings sometimes of figures, but…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Julian Onderdonk landscape

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    Late Afternoon, Julian Onderdonk The link is to the image page on WikiArt, which unfortunately doesn’t have much information about the size or location of the original. If you click on “View all sizes” under the image on their page, you can access a reasonably high res version of the image. Presumably, this is oil…

  • Tyl Destoop

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    Originally from Belgium, Tyl Destoop is a watercolor painter living in the Normandy region of France. Destoop has a pleasantly free rendering style, matched with solid draftsmanship and compositional skills. I particularly enjoy his urban scenes. His website offers a selection of his paintings, most of which are available for purchase. You can find more…

  • Eye Candy for Today: George Elgar Hicks genre painting

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    The Dead Goldfinch (“All that was left to love”), George Elgar Hicks; oil on canvas; roughly 24 x 30 inches (62 x 75 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Genre painting, which became popular in the 18th…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Emelie Preyer still life

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    Still Life with Peach, Apricot, Grapes and Hazelnuts on a Tablecloth, Emelie Preyer 19th century German still life painter Emelie Preyer shows her characteristic touch with the textural surface and beautifully balanced color of these simple fruits and nuts. Her composition is thoughtfully conceived, and the value and color relationships lead your eye inexorably around…

  • Megan Lightell

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    Megan Lightwell is a contemporary Tennessee based painter working in the tonalist tradition. Her serene, atmospheric landscapes are painted with a restrained palette, compressed values and an emphasis on soft edges. I particularly enjoy her compositions which she projects depth with receding planes of increasingly muted chroma and value. Be conscious of the fact that…