Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Apollinary Vasnetsov

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Apollinary Vasnetsov was a Russian painter whose work is usually overshadowed by that of his more widely recognized brother, Viktor Vasnetsov, who was also his only formal teacher. Apollinary Vasnetsov painted landscapes, and was also known for his portrayals of historic Moscow. Many of his images of the latter appear to be in watercolor over…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow’s Winter

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Winter, Frits Thaulow Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadble high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway. What better way to celebrate the Winter Solstice than with a super high-resolution image of a painting I haven’t see before by one of my…

  • Hector McDonnell

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Hector McDonnell is an Irish painter whose primary subject appears to be room interiors, from humble to palatial. He approaches these with loose, painterly confidence. In many of his compositions, light through windows is the dominant player, cascading across furnishings and illuminating floors. McDonnell also appears to take delight in complex floor patterns and architectural…

  • Denis Sarazhin (update)

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Denis Sarazhin is a Ukrainian painter I first wrote about in 2015. His approach to painting plays with color and texture in ways that are visually captivating. Since my last writing, in which I particularly admired his still life subjects, Sarazhin has moved into a concentration on figurative work. However, he often appears to treat…

  • Eye Candy for Today: James Peale miniature portrait

    —

    by

    cparker
    in , ,

    Elizabeth Oliphant, James Peale Watercolor on ivory, roughly 3 x 2 inches (7 x 5.8 cm ). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the late 18th, and through the mid 19th centuries, there was a demand for miniature portraits, both in the U.S. and in Europe. These…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Dort Packet-Boat

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Dortdrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, J.M.W. Turner In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. This was painted in 1818, just a few…