Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jongkind Laundry Boat on the Seine

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    Bateau-Lavoir prés du Pont-Neuf, Paris; Johan Jongkind From our vantage point in time, we have a tendency to call paintings like this one — with its loose, painterly brushwork, depiction of everyday events, and contrasting complementary colors — “impressionistic”. It’s another reminder that the characteristics we associate with French Impressionism were not invented out of…

  • Odile Richer

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    Canadian painter Odile Richer takes a refined realist approach to her compositions of faces and figures. The often complex backgrounds against which she places her models, and the clothing in which she poses them, offer a dense variety of textures, shapes and value relationships that contrast with the faces of the models themselves. Often there…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Marten van Valckenborch Tower of Babel

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    The Tower of Babel, Marten van Valckenborch the Elder The link is to a zoomable version of the image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden State Art Museums. Flemish Renaissance painter Marten van Valckenborch painted a number of complex compositions…

  • Denise Dumont

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    Denise Dumont is a Delaware based artist who applies her fresh, painterly approach to urban, rural and particularly coastal scenes of Delaware, Maryland and New England. I enjoy her scenes of dune paths and vegetation, in which she plays with effects of shadow, light and texture. She finds similar characteristics in the portrayal of snow…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jacob van Walscapelle Still Life with Fruit

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    Still Life with Fruit, Jacob van Walscapelle Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Compared to some of Van Walscapelle’s more elaborate 17th century still life paintings, this…

  • Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2017

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    “Women Painting Women: A Voice with a Vision” is a group show at the RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY (Long Island) that opens this Saturday, October 7, and runs to October 30, 2017. The title of the show pretty well describes the theme. There is a nice variety of approaches — within the traditions of…