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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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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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Hiroshima smile by Martinus
110 cm * 110 cm - Acrylic on canvas, mixed techniques
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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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Bear, Bat, or Tiny King?
Deborah Friedell reviews “The Inkblots” by Damion Searls.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ice red and blue, Acrylic
artist source: imgur.com/user/lockstocker
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Disco
Ralf Hildenbeutel
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Thirst by Martinus
20 * 20 cm - acrylics on canvas - Not adopted yet.
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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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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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Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless
Tate Modern focuses on a single year, with more than 100 paintings, sculpture and drawings. This was a fraction of the artist’s prodigious output.
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Vulture Culture by Martinus
A quicky. :-) - Acrylics on canvas, 24 * 30 cm - 2018
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Canvasses from my exhibition
This weekend I took part in a group exhibition with these canvasses. :-) Finally some descent photos. :-) Did not sell anything.
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Griffon vulture by Martinus
He looks at you. You're not interesting. You live. -- 24 * 30 cm, acrylics on canvas -- For Sale
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Ode aan Gerrit de Gehandicapte Huisspin (Ode to Gerrit the Handicapped Housespider) by Martinus
Acrylics on linen, 80 * 80 cm - Description: Gerrit is my housespider, this will his third year. He is handicapped due to a working accident that left him with seven legs. No flies or mosquitos in my home thanks to this hero! :-)
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