Painting News

The curator who poured art and soul into the Leonardo da Vinci show (Jonathan Jones on art)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:16:20 GMT

The National Gallery's exhibition was unique because curator Luke Syson gave us his personal, passionate vision of Leonardo The queues have gone. Fled is that music. The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition has ended at the National Gallery and by the ever-onward logic of news and reviews, it is now time to praise other shows, as a storm of excellent spring shows grip London.

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Free literary fiction Kindle books for 08 Feb 12 (Free books for Kindle)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:43:00 GMT

... blizzard since 1888. When an art dealer stumbles in from the storm and hires them to find a stolen painting, they think it's just another case, but in no time they're neck-deep in a world of unstable artists, seductive gallery owners, mysterious collectors, deadly henchmen and a stunning femme fatale . This is A Real Piece of Work . In a thrill-ride of a mystery that leads from...

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Art, romance and rad royal photography (ShopCurious)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:50:00 GMT

... There you go… Now that’s out of the way, what I’d actually like to talk about is the latest exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum – Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Apparently, Sir Roy Strong once described the relationship between the Queen and Beaton as “the greatest alliance ever forged between crown and camera.” Beaton was instrumental in...

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Renoirs reunited at the Frick Collection (NewYorkology: A New York Travel Guide)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:02:50 GMT

The Frick Collection today opened an exhibition of nine full-length paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir including “La Promenade” and eight works on loan. Situated all in one gallery at the museum, The Frick is selling timed-entry tickets for the exhibition. Renoir, the son of a tailor and a dressmaker, was something of a fashionista, Colin Bailey, the museum’s director...

Source : NewYorkology: A New York Travel Guide

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US judge: Baroque artwork to return to man's heirs (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:01:06 GMT

US judge: Baroque artwork to return to man's heirs Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 06:05 p.m., Monday, February 6, 2012 (AP) — A U.S. judge has ordered the return of a 16th century Italian painting to the heirs of a Jewish man who owned the Baroque work before World War...

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Welcome to the pleasure dome: what Peter Lely did for us (Jonathan Jones on art)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:16:00 GMT

Migrations at Tate Britain explores global influences on British art, but I want to know more about Baroque bad boy Peter Lely Peter Lely was a rollicking sensation of an artist. He got rich and he had a good time – or that is the impression his art gives off, both his own paintings and the treasures he owned. In the British Museum, you can see an ancient Roman statue of a sensual Venus,...

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i heart art (cup and table)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:06:00 GMT

... color or art to your february, check out some of my favorite sites: seed capsules yes:archive the painting spac e le louvre national portrait gallery uk moma gagosian gallery color and light. inspiration. levity and gravity. all worthwhile. you can lose yourself for hours immersed in beautiful art and then spring will be here before you know it. that's my plan, and i'm...

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The Many Fascinating Faces of History (Word Wenches)
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:03:17 GMT

Cara/Andrea here, One of the things I love about browsing through a museum or gallery exhibit is that serendipitous discovery of some new item or person that adds yet another reason to be fascinated by the past. It’s those tiny colorful threads that make the rich tapestry of history come alive for me, and deepens my appreciation of the human spirit’s creative energy. I recently stumbled...

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Art In Review: On Kawara’s ‘Date Painting(s)’ at David Zwirner Gallery (New York Times)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:54:04 GMT

Canvases that consist of the day, month and year of its making, recorded in simple white sans-serif text on a solid background, make up many of the works on view in On Kawara’s show “Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities,” at the David Zwirner Gallery.

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The history of American gay writers as they emerged from the literary closet (Beattie's Book Blog)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:12:00 GMT

How Gossip Became History: Eminent Outlaws by Christopher Bram The Daily Beast - Brad Gooch From Gore Vidal to Tony Kushner, a new book, ‘Eminent Outlaws’ by Christopher Bram, traces the history of American gay writers as they emerged from the literary closet. Brad Gooch on how gossip became history. Plus, a gallery of the most famous. Once a month or so during the 1970s I had dinner at...

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Beautiful, Aesthetic, Erotic (The New York Review of Books)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Richard Dorment The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement by Allen Staley Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist by John Christian The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain, 1860–1900 an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum,...

Source : The New York Review of Books

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High Museum to feature folk artist Bill Traylor (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:31 GMT

High Museum to feature folk artist Bill Traylor Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:56 a.m., Thursday, February 2, 2012 ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition set to open at Atlanta's High Museum of Art showcases the work of Bill Traylor, who was born into slavery in Alabama...

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Fresh Mona Liza (Coxsoft Art News)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:18:00 GMT

The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, has unveiled a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa which experts believe was painted in his studio by one of his apprentices, possibly Francesco Melzi. The Prado has owned the painting for many years, but two years ago began preparing it for a da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre. An 18th century black background surrounded the Mona Liza. When this...

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Mona Lisa's perfume - L'âme soeur de la Joconde (1000fragrances)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:39:00 GMT

The most famous painting in the world has a twin. It is a contemporaneous copy of Mona Lisa and has been discovered by conservators at the Prado in Madrid, as it was presented during a symposium at the National Gallery in London during the Da Vinci great retrospective. This painting is considered a copy made by one of Da Vinci's pupils and it mirrors how the original was in...

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London 2012: Olympic Park artist’s take on Seurat masterpiece (The Sport Review)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:02 GMT

An artist working on the Olympic Park has paid tribute to the workers involved in the build-up to London 2012 by recreating his own version of an iconic painting by French post-impressionist Georges Seurat. The National Gallery, which houses the original masterpiece, said that Neville Gabie, the Olympic Park’s artist in residence, had imaginatively reinterpreted [...]

Source : The Sport Review

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BNY Mellon to Bring Largest Touring Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to Asia (Art )
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:51:45 GMT

BNY Mellon to Bring Largest Touring Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to Asia ‘Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal’ exhibition will tour Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo throughout 2012/14 “In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes” – Andy Warhol HONG KONG, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – BNY Mellon is bringing the largest touring collection of...

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"Memories of Mark Twain" (Mail Art Projects)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:41:00 GMT

The Geneva Lake Art Association, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in conjunction with The Big Read, the National Endowment for the Arts program.... "designed to restore reading to the center of the American Culture"...are seeking Mail Art entries to our Mail Art Exhibition responding to the title and theme of "Memories of Mark Twain". This family-based theme is open to interpretation excluding...

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This week on the Post: French painters... (The Persephone Post)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:01:00 GMT

This week on the Post: French painters and musicians who, in some indefinable way, have influenced our books. Berthe Morisot (1841-95) showed The Cradle , which hangs at the Musée d'Orsay, at the Impressionist exhibition of 1874 that included work by Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Monet and Sisley; the painting failed to sell, and stayed in the artist's family until bought by the...

Source : The Persephone Post

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Explores "Van Gogh Up Close" (Art Knowledge News)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:07:06 GMT

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. venue for A major traveling exhibition of work by Vincent van Gogh. "Van Gogh Up Close" will be on view at the museum from February 1st through May 6th. “I … am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to...

Source : Art Knowledge News

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Robert Henri - Cumulus Clouds, East River [1901-02] (Gandalf's Gallery)
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:29:00 GMT

Robert Henri - Cumulus Clouds, East River [1901-02] , a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr. Robert Henri (Cincinnati, Ohio, June 25, 1865 – New York City, July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art. He began teaching at the New York School of Art in 1902, where his students included Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper, Rockwell...

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