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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rooms and paintings
From one of my favorite places.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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