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Lines and Colors
3d ago
Hopefully — even if only for a moment — you got to see in the top two images Vermeer’s iconic painting with fresh eyes. The images are reversed left to right. It is not an uncommon practice for artists to pause in the process of working on a painting or other artwork and view the ..read more
Lines and Colors
2w ago
Hungarian born painter Philip de László, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spent much of his life and career in the UK, where he was noted for his portraits of royalty and the wealthy. The de Lazlo Archive Trust website features information about the artist, as well as a catalogue ..read more
Lines and Colors
2w ago
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve since 2005, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecer’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case marking the arrival of 1925.For more Leyendecker to while away your New Year’s day, check the list of Lines ..read more
Lines and Colors
1M ago
If, like me, you enjoy YouTube videos about art and artists, you may have come across a number of slideshow style videos showcasing the art of historic painters. In many of these, if not the majority, the creator of the videos seems compelled to add motion — panning, zooming and using transitions that flip, swipe ..read more
Lines and Colors
1M ago
Brock Larson is a contemporary American painter living in Minnesota. On his website you will find landscape and still life paintings along with portrait drawings. In his landscapes, Larson often pulls us into the shadowy depths of deep woods, while at others times leading us out onto broad fields and expanses of water. Brock Larson ..read more
Lines and Colors
1M ago
Weite Landschaft mit idealer rheinischer Burg (Wide landscape with an ideal Rhenish castle), Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches (45 x 36 cm) This landscape painting by the 19th century German painter is a perfect example of counterchange — the reversal of value relationships between a shape or object and the ..read more
Lines and Colors
2M ago
Kay (pronounced “kigh”, rhymes with “sky”) Nielsen was a Danish illustrator — active in the early 20th century — who was known in particular for his illustrations for the Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. This is one example ..read more
Lines and Colors
2M ago
William Wyld was a 19th century English painter who specialized in watercolor landscapes and cityscapes, as well as making etchings. Among his favored subjects were scenes of Venice and sailing ships ..read more
Lines and Colors
3M ago
ˆ, also here, Théodore Rousseau, etching, two states; roughly 4 x 7″ (12 x 17 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. In this wonderful etching by the 19th century French painter we see a beautifully evocative view into the depths of the forest — likely the Forest of Fontinebleau, where ..read more
Lines and Colors
3M ago
Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted portraits, figures, landscapes and still life subjects, but as known in particular for his portrayals of angels, or angelic figures. These were distinguished from idealized angels in that they seem to be realized as portraits, the sitters ..read more