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TwoInchBrush: a searchable database of Bob Ross paintings
TwoInchBrush.com is an online database and lists every painting done by Bob Ross on his TV show 'The Joy of Painting'. You can find a list of all Bob Ross paintings and seasons.
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Gustav Klimt painting sells for a record £47,971,250 at Sotheby's
A painting by Gustav Klimt has become the third most expensive artwork ever sold in Europe, after fetching a record price of £47,971,250 ($59,321,248) at Sotheby's. Bauerngarten (Flower Garden) became the Austrian symbolist's highest-priced landscape work when it was sold at the London auction house on Wednesday. The oil-on-canvas depicting an "informal profusion of poppies, daisies and roses" follows Alberto Giacometti's Walking Man (£65m in 2010) and Peter Paul Rubens' The Massacre Of The...
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Meet Wes Lang: Kanye Collaborator, Taste God, and World’s Most Badass Artist
Wes Lang is famous for Kanye’s Yeezus graphics. But the L.A. painter’s fast cars, big rings, and awe-inspiring spaces will make you lust after much more than just concert tees. BY Zach Baron. (Aug. 22, 2016)
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Originality Versus the Arts
In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.
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Rooms and paintings
From one of my favorite places.
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Saved by Shakespeare's Father, a Series of Medieval Murals Is Finally Restored
A group of wall paintings in Stratford-upon-Avon's Guild Chapel should have been destroyed in 1563, but John Shakespeare had them covered in limewash instead, preserving them for centuries.
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The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
Monks and peasant artists in the 16th century began this intricate process of re-spinning spider and caterpillar cobwebs.
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The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
Monks and peasant artists in the 16th century began this intricate process of re-spinning spider and caterpillar cobwebs.
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Texas Archaeologist Cracks the Code of a 4,500-Year-Old Mural
The White Shaman mural has been silent for millennia — but thanks to the work of archaeologist Carolyn Boyd, it can begin to speak again. By Brad Tyer.
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Andrew Wyeth, his Critics, and Small Town Mud
“By his palette, by his tempera, by his specificity, by his attention, Wyeth transmuted the actuality of the tenant farmer’s house onto a flat piece of canvas, a material that otherwise has nothing to do with bricks, or snow, or lonely fields in the woods.” By Morgan Meis
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Poland’s Most Optimistic, Backward-Looking Artist
Faded utopias have served as the greatest inspiration for Paulina Olowska — painting, living and believing in a forgotten past.
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Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious than Gold
The first blue pigment to hold its color was often prized over gold. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was ground into an iridescent pigment, sometimes called ultramarine, that seemed to shine when applied to the canvas.
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1933 Article on Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the master mural painter gleefully dabbles in works of art”
The story may illustrate how easy it was for a man like Walter to get millions of people to see what they wanted to see in the picture of success—a charismatic, talented man, it turns out, his wife, Margaret was in fact the artist.
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Getting Closer to Vermeer with Three New Books on the Artist
Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed. The second time was when history forgot him: shortly after his death, he disappeared from cultural memory.
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The secret ‘midnight paintings’ of Dr Seuss – in pictures
Over a lifetime of sleepless nights, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr Seuss, created hundreds of artworks he called his ‘Midnight Paintings’. Although famous for his work as a children’s author, Geisel created topical and surrealist art, much of which was kept private until his death
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Oil Paintings That Will Make Your Eyes And Brain Hurt
Queen of Double Eyes, that’s how Toronto-based artist Alex Garant introduces herself when she stands next to her mind-bending double vision oil paintings.
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This artist makes creepy paintings of your beloved childhood TV characters.
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What It's Like To Be The Only Painter In Antarctica
Making art at the bottom of the world, where paint freezes and the best subjects are millimeters long.
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Scientists Think They've Figured Out Why Van Gogh's Sunflowers Are Fading
The vibrant colors of many of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings—including his Sunflower series—have been fading over the last 100 years. Now a team of Italian scientists has come up with an explanation as to why the lead chromate dyes favored by the artist when mixing his pigments degrade so much under light. They described their work in a new paper in Chemical Science.
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Memories of Paintings
Thomas Blanchard
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