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How a blind artist is challenging our understanding of colour
For centuries, people who were born blind have been the intellectual curios of philosophers studying consciousness. This is particularly true for those exploring the way our consciousness is effected by our bodies, especially our eyes, which Leonardo da Vinci described as the “window of the soul”.
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The Struggling Artist at 86
Harry Bertschmann started his art career exhibiting alongside Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. For the next 60 years, he painted in almost total obscurity. Now he wants to get discovered.
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Thirst by Martinus
20 * 20 cm - acrylics on canvas - Not adopted yet.
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Disco
Ralf Hildenbeutel
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Ice red and blue, Acrylic
artist source: imgur.com/user/lockstocker
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Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs
The price was astounding, even more so because some experts criticized a Christie’s marketing campaign that glossed over the painting’s flaws.
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How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art
A new Picasso exhibition, curated by his granddaughter, celebrates one of the only women in his life he didn't harm for art: his daughter.
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Artist Mark Bradford Unveils His Largest Work Yet, a Civil War Cyclorama at the Hirshhorn
The artist's homecoming, after a critically acclaimed pavilion in Venice, doesn't lack for ambition—or size.
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Inside the colorful, unpredictable studio of painter Cy Gavin
Teeth, skeletons and sea sponges fill the eclectic studio of this buzzed-about artist, who we visited upstate as he prepares for his first European solo show.
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Sorrow Nouveau
Sorrow Nouveau tendrils against metamodernism and is a return to new sincerity when composing Objet d’art in the 21st century. Lyrical abstraction bleeds Gesamtkunstwerk with authentic tenderness shown vividly and often is spectral. The sensitivity of these selected artists is blatantly apparent leaving the viewer forcibly informed of this sentiment.
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Bear, Bat, or Tiny King?
Deborah Friedell reviews “The Inkblots” by Damion Searls.
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Artists turn to vellum to beat the forgers copying their work
With millions of pounds at stake the art world has long wrestled with how to detect forgeries, from using chemical paint analysis to X-rays, infra-red examination and putting canvases under the microscope. But one solution has been staring us in the face all this time, and it dates back hundreds of years.
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Hiroshima smile by Martinus
110 cm * 110 cm - Acrylic on canvas, mixed techniques
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The Renaissance artist who cast live snakes, frogs, and lizards to make his ceramics.
French 16th-century artist Bernard Palissy was known to capture live plant and animals species to create his vibrant ceramic plates, basins and vessels.
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How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. By Forrest Muelrath.
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All Paintings done by Bob Ross
Find a list of all paintings done by Bob Ross in 'The Joy of Painting' TV show.
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271 years before Pantone, an artist mixed and described every color imaginable in an 800-page book.
In 1692 A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water.
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The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight
At a time when pop music and mass culture are analyzed with feverish determination, Sam McKinniss’s work offers an alternative.
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Vermeer
After spending his whole life in Delft, Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675) left a small oeuvre of only thirty-six paintings. The Mauritshuis owns three paintings by Vermeer: Diana and her Nymphs; an early work depicting a mythological scene, the townscape View of Delft and the world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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World’s Blackest Material Now Comes in a Spray Can
Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void. By Kacey Deamer. (Apr. 5, 2017)
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