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The Turkish blind painter, Esref Armagan
Turkish artist Esref Armagan is one of the few blind commercial painters in the world. Blind from birth, he learned to draw by touching and copying carved shapes. As he grew older, Armagan adapted techniques which allowed him to add perspective to his work. A few critics suggested that his art was not his own, a claim refuted by those who witnessed him paint. Today, Armagan’s artwork is in demand internationally. He also mentors young visually impaired children, demonstrating how they can achieve their artistic dreams.
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Reconsidering modern art's sacred monster: Picasso in a post-MeToo world
Pablo Picasso's problematic relationship with the opposite sex has long been documented: by the women who shared his life and by the art critics and biographers who relayed the artist's musings, such as "there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats". As the Picasso Museum in Paris invites feminist artist ORLAN to revisit his portraits in "Weeping Women Are Angry", we speak to art critic and author Judith Benhamou. She tells us why "like many geniuses, Picasso was a monster" and how his sexual appetite fuelled his creative impulses.
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‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation
Indi Shields first discovered film in the drawer of her childhood home. “The first film camera I picked up was my great grandfather’s,” she says. “It felt so special to hold it and use it in the same way that he used to. Even though I never got to meet him.” While Shields was already taking analogue photographs before the pandemic began, the way she used it shifted during lockdowns.
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Bitcoin Will Reinspire The Pursuit Of Beauty
Bitcoin lets us envision ourselves far into the future. It allows us to think, to set high goals and to discover a genuine pursuit which provides real value.
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The world's first robot artist reveals amazing new paintings in its first solo exhibition
Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, recently opened its first solo exhibition at the Concilio Europeo Dell'Arte venue of the InParadiso Gallery. Titled Leaping Into The Metaverse, the exhibition explores the interface between human experience and AI technology.
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You Can Now Explore All of ‘The Book of Kells’ for Free Online
Zoom in on every page of this legendary illuminated manuscript.
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A CT mechanic found hundreds of pieces of art in a dumpster. They’re worth millions.
In September of 2017, as a barn in Watertown was being cleared to be sold, the contractor found large canvases with car parts painted on them. The space and its contents had been deemed "abandoned," so he called his friend Jared Whipple, a car mechanic from Waterbury, because he thought he might like them.
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Italian artist sells invisible sculpture for more than $18,000
Though he's received much critique for the sale, Salvatore Garau argues that his work of art isn't "nothing," but is instead a "vacuum."
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The newest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art? Its own security guards.
“I’m excited to see everyone’s reaction to what I picked for the show,” said guard Ricardo Castro.
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Check out Patricia Piccinini's studio, where she makes her grotesque hyperrealistic sculptures
Peek behind the scenes of artist Patricia Piccinini’s Melbourne studio. Piccini works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and drawing. Her work explores the relationshi…
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Art Nouveau's Obsession with the Peacock
It wasn’t until the 19th century that the peacock would take centre stage as the unofficial mascot of Art Nouveau.
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‘Justice can triumph’: painting looted by Nazis returned to owners after 80 years
Piece by German artist Lovis Corinth was entrusted to Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels
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Harvard ceramics program recreates Art Museums’ pieces
Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.
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Should NFTs Be Classified as Art? Wikipedia's Editors Vote 'No'
Makers of the free encyclopedia spar over the categorization for non-fungible tokens, the relatively new phenomenon sweeping the digital art world.
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This Woman Revitalizes Second-Hand Books By Painting Famous Scenes On Their Pages
"I love to go into painfully small detail with some very tiny paintbrushes."
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Care home residents paint themselves into famous artworks
The pictures included recreations of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night.
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Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses
The artist was given around $83,000 to recreate old artworks, but then produced two blank canvasses.
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China’s ugliest buildings: contest to celebrate unsightly architecture begins
This year’s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a ‘welcome to hell’ glass bridge joining two mountains
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Beyond Van Gogh
These images are from the Ottawa iteration of the Beyond Van Gogh immersive experience. It brought the work of one of history's greatest oil painters to life with 21st century computer animation and light technology. Even the floor was a living, moving work of impressionism à la Van Gogh.
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The Prince, the Flash, and the Forger
Prince Charles was thrilled when a fast-talking hustler named James Stunt loaned 17 masterpieces to his celebrated art collection. But what happens when a Picasso isn’t a Picasso?
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