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18.Jul.2007 : Damien Hirst?s Fortunes Double
2007-07-18 05:01:00 Damien Hirst, whose London show closed this month without a sale of his diamond skull, has found buyers for £130 million ($265 million) of art at the White Cube galleries, said exhibitions director Tim Marlow. A split shark fetched £10 million, “three crucified sheep sold for 6 million pounds, and talks to sell the ... More About: News , Double , Fort , Damien , Fortunes
Was Mona Lisa a Real Person?
2007-07-17 11:20:00 The Mona Lisa was originally identified as Lisa Gherardini as early as the mid 16th century when Vasari put together his biography of Leonardo Da Vinci and described the Mona Lisa. Everyone was intrigued to know ?who was the model? for the Mona Lisa and in Gherardini, she was believed to be found. Leonardo Da Vinci ... More About: Paintings , Real , Person
Political Flags
2007-07-16 13:04:00 Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine ... More About: Political , Poli , Politic
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Five)
2007-07-15 07:04:00 The Greeks colonized southern Italy, where they were in contact with the indigenous Etruscan culture. An ancient Greek wall painting from the so-called ?Tomb of the Diver? in Paestum, Italy, probably reveals Etruscan influences. The dive taken by the figure could be interpreted as the passage of the deceased into the ... More About: History , Greece , Paintings , Part , Western
Who was the Most crazy, Van Gogh or Munch?
2007-07-13 20:30:00 Both of these artists were known to suffer from mental illness. Munch had what is now believed to be bi-polar disorder. Van Gogh suffered from paranoia, and possibly a myriad of other mental ailments, including epilepsy and absynth addiction, that the psychiatric community still debates. It is clear that they both suffered in ... More About: Crazy
The Day After Tomorrow?
2007-07-09 12:23:00 This is the result of high winds blowing water from a lake in Geneva during freezing conditions, causing the water spray to freeze almost instantly. “All the best art is found in nature” as they say. More About: Tomorrow , Day After , The D , Morrow , Tomo
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Four)
2007-07-08 07:02:00 The human form in art was infused with realism; the musculature was carefully modelled, movement was implied and drapery fell naturally over the body. This realism encompassed an ideal of humanity that resulted in dignified, confident, emotionally restrained, and rational expressions and postures. Painting at this time also reached ... More About: History , Greece , Paintings , Part , Western
Where Can I find A Picture Of Mona Lisa?
2007-07-06 14:03:00 We may never know all of the Mona Lisa ?s secrets, but surely the history of the painting and it?s worldly travels has only helped in making the image so sought after. read more | digg story More About: News , Picture , Find
Where Can I find A Picture Of Mona Lisa?
2007-07-06 10:54:00 We may never know all of the Mona Lisa ?s secrets, but surely the history of the painting and it?s worldly travels has only helped in making the image so sought after. The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci Asking ?What country is the Mona Lisa in?? or ?Where is the Mona Lisa located?? does not do ... More About: Picture , Find , Paintings
Da Vinci Introduction
2007-07-04 06:11:00 As we start to crank this “blog” up to 5 articles a week, coming up first will be a complete coverage of Da Vinci ’s paintings. We will start with the most famous painting of them all, the Mona Lisa. We already have over 7000 words written about this mysterious woman, so be sure to keep ... More About: Paintings , Introduction , Intro
The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
2007-07-02 11:54:00 The full image from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo More About: Apel
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Three)
2007-07-01 06:51:00 Hyria with Women at the Fountain. 530 B.C. Vulci, Museo di Villa Giulia, Rome Non-mythological subjects also appear on vases. In one example, a group of women at a fountain appropriately decorates a hydria, or water jug. Several vases have images relating to the Panathenaic games, festivals held in Athens similar to the Olympic ... More About: History , Greece , Paintings , Part , Western
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Two)
2007-06-24 06:38:00 The flourishing of Athens as a cultural centre is attested to by the great quantity and high quality of painted vases produced in Attica (the name given to Athens and its surrounding area) from the late seventh century until around 480 B.C., known as the Archaic period in Greek art. Archaic ... More About: History , Greece , Paintings , Part , Western
22.Jun.2007 : The Rising Price of Art
2007-06-22 06:37:00 A series of London auctions featuring paintings by Lucian Freud, Claude Monet and Joan Miro netted the biggest-ever sum for a week of art sales in Europe, auctioneers Christie’s said today. The sales earned a total of £237 million ($561.41 million) and featured 23 new artist records. Highlights included French Impressionist Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, which sold for ... More About: News , Price
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part One)
2007-06-17 09:05:00 Around 1100 B.C. invaders from northwest of the Balkan Mountains entered what is today the Greek mainland, the islands of the Aegean and Asia Minor, the western part of Turkey. These invaders mixed with the Bronze Age peoples already inhabiting these areas, forming the civilization of ancient Greece . Organized into city-states, ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western
History of Western Paintings - IV - Minoan Art (Part Two)
2007-06-10 06:28:00 Bull Jumping (”Toreador Fresco”). c.1450 B.C. Wall painting from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete. Height: approx. 24.5″ (62cm). Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete Minoan religious practices remain somewhat obscure. This enigmatic scene may be a religious ritual in which male and female participants (females are fair-skinned, as in Egyptian art, indicating their sheltered lives out of the sun) ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western , Art History
History of Western Paintings - IV - Minoan Art (Part One)
2007-06-03 09:01:00 The flowering of the Minoan civilization, centred on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, coincided with the New Kingdom in Egypt and the Babylonian period of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia. “Minoan” comes from the name “Minos” the king of Crete in Greek mythology who provided the human-flesh-eating Minotaur, a ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western , Art History
29.May.2007 : Chinese Art Increasing in Popularity
2007-05-29 10:13:00 Prices for works by contemporary and avant-garde Chinese artists hit record highs at Christie’s spring auctions in Hong Kong on Sunday, in a sign of sustained strong demand. Yue Minjun - known for his paintings of absurd, grinning faces - saw his “Portrait of the artist and his friends” fetch HK$20.48 million ... More About: News , May 2007 , Popularity , Pula
History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part Three)
2007-05-27 09:21:00 The discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922 by Howard Carter, a British archaeologist, resulted in some of the most important contributions to our understanding of the ancient Egypt ians? civilisation in general and their burial practices in particular. This is especially true since the tomb was found almost intact, ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western
History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part Two)
2007-05-20 09:09:00 Two-dimensional depictions of royal figures in Egypt ian art had long been standardised. Typically, pharaohs, queens and members of their families and courts are shown with heads, hips, legs, and feet in profile, while their torsos and eyes are depicted as if viewed from the front, like Mesopotamian depictions of the human ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western
17.May.2007 : Andy Warhol?s Rising Value
2007-05-17 09:39:00 Andy Warhol ’s acid-green painting of a gruesome car wreck sold for $71.7 million last night, as Christie’s International sped past rival Sotheby’s to chalk up the biggest-ever auction of postwar and contemporary art. The sale in New York raised $384.7 million, beating the previous high set on Tuesday at Sotheby’s by more than 50 percent, ... More About: News , Andy , Value , May 2007
History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part One)
More articles from this author:2007-05-13 08:59:00 The civilisation of ancient Egypt was roughly contemporary with the neighbouring cultures in the ancient Near East. While the Mesopotamians were constantly subjected to enemy attacks, however, the fruitful Nile Valley was surrounded by desert and thus not easily reached by invading forces. Furthermore, unlike the politically unstable city-states of ... More About: History , Paintings , Part , Western 1, 2, 3 |
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