A Fresh Look: Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
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 work in a mirror. This briefly provides a fresh view of the work, a contrast to the the kind of familiarity that makes it difficult to see something objectively.
We can use the same effect to view images that are so culturally familiar they are difficult to...
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Philip de Laszlo
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 raisonné of his work.
In Orange by Alex Andreev
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2025 by Alex Andreev
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2025!
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 and Colors J C. Leyendecker posts at the end of this article.
I wish you all a new year rich with artistic exploration and inspiration!
Vitoslavlitsy-Yuryevo by Alex Andreev
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LearnFromMasters YouTube channel
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, rotate, dissolve into blocks and otherwise try to be “entertaining”. It’s a video, so things have to move, right?
While I appreciate the effort invested in gathering and presenting the images in these presentations, as soon as I realize it’s one of those, I click away in...
Zasadzka na nadbużańskich moczarach/Ambushed in the mire by Sebastian Szmyd
Stary woj Jegiel, rusałka Wilżanka i pogodowy skrzat Płanetniczek w tarapatach na nadbużańskich mokradłach.
Jegiel, an old warrior, Wilżanka, a nymph, and a small weather spirit Płanetniczek drawn into the mire of the Bug river.
Gouache on paper, A3 format.
The Zorza world is slowly taking a more tangible shape The main characters so far are:
- Wilżanka (her name means, more or less, "daughter of the oriole"), a river spirit/nymph (well, a rusalka);
- Jegiel, an old, one-armed warrior and also partially a spruce tree;
- Płanetniczek, a small weather spirit, under whose hat it never stops raining.
More is coming soon
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