Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Ernst Graner

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    Ernst Graner was and Austrian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Graner painted genre scenes and landscapes, but is best known for his deftly rendered views of architecture and city scenes, particularly in Vienna. In the larger images available on the web, you can see that for all the detail and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh cottage drawing

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    Two Cottages at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Vincent van Gogh Reed pen and brown ink over pencil, roughly 12 x 18 inches (315 x 473 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and…

  • Yury Nikolaev

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    Yury Viktorovich Nikolaev is a contemporary Russian painter whose primary subjects are still life arrangements of food. Some of his compositions — filled with crockery, baked goods, baskets and flowers — have a kind of homespun, folksy-craftsy charm that would not be out of place in a magazine devoted to recipies, but they are so…

  • Peter Fiore (update)

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    Peter Fiore is a painter based in northeastern Pennsylvania, who I first profiled back in 2012. Fiore often takes his fascination with light — particularly the horizontal light of early and late in the day — into the woods, where he seeks rhythm and balance in the intricate patterns formed by the trunks of trees…

  • Eye Candy for Today: James Jebusa Shannon’s Jungle Tales

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    Jungle Tales, James Jebusa Shannon In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. American artist James Jebusa Shannon, who spent most of his career in England, here presents an intimate scene of his wife reading to their daughter and one of her friends. “Jungle Tales”…

  • George Sotter: Light and Shadow

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    As much as I admire the original French Impressionists, I’m frequently even more drawn to the work of the American Impressionists, who, though not part of a formal movement, took elements of the impressionist approach and applied them to their own unique vision, resulting in a wonderful variety of painterly realism. A subset of American…