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Beyond the black mask

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The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The unconventional, wild-living Rimbaud was also a subject of Nolan’s paintings – most famously in the minimal, abstract work Boy and the Moon. …

Children’s Books Life Is Sweet

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New York Times – United States
By SARAH BOXER “Delicious: The Life and Art of Wayne Thiebaud,” is the story of a happy man known for his happy paintings of cakes and pies. …

Book of essays accompanies Edward Hopper exhibition of paintings

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The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com – Cleveland,OH,USA
The label irritated Hopper, but he never embraced the abstract vocabulary of European Modernism either. Hopper’s Modernism was based on reality, …

Back in time with Schwartz, Polonsky shows

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Boston Globe – United States
Those 1991 paintings, now being exhibited for the first time at Gallery NAGA, are the last he has made. This eight-painting exhibition coincides with a …

Jim Denevan

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By Kate Barnett
From above, the drawings are abstract patterns. But when looked at from the ground level, they take on a new form, challenging ideas of distance and perspective. Then, heartbreakingly, they get washed away. …

An Artist or an Ape?

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By Martha Marshall(Martha Marshall)
If you haven’t taken this quiz by Mikhail Simkin, you might enjoy testing your skill at picking which of the abstract paintings in the quiz are done my humans and which ones were done by an ape. I’d be interested in how you did. …

Joint art venture captivates art enthusiasts at Alhamra

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Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
The landscapes in abstract art and miniatures in realistic paintings are so captivating that viewers are lost in them. A painting named Lohari Gate by …

Thursday, February 14 at Dillon Gallery

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Dillon Gallery is proud to present the new work of Kaye Mahoney, ‘Scores and Progressions.’ This body of work presents two divergent media: abstract paintings and short digital video progressions of abstract paintings as they evolve. In these pa…

‘Point of Departure’ for mixed media artist Joan Staufer

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Coshocton Tribune – Coshocton,OH,USA
Staufer is considered a mixed media artist and paints on canvas, wood and books, which she calls altered books. “My work is abstract art bordering on the …

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Two Picasso Paintings Stolen From Swiss Lakeside Museum

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Bloomberg - Feb 8, 2008
8 (Bloomberg) — Two Pablo Picasso oil paintings belonging to the Sprengel Museum in Germany were stolen from a lakeside town’s cultural exhibit in eastern …

French waiter admits mass art theft

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9 Jan 2008, Brazil police hunt £28m art theft mastermind … Mr Breitwieser will be tried in Switzerland before being extradited to France. …

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Award-Winning Painter Discovers Inspiration in His Professional …

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By Aria Munro
These paintings are crafted in mixed media-acrylics, modeling mediums, and collage-and are often heavily built up, over-painted, scribed, and somewhat sculptural. Despite the abstract series’ different looks, the creative process is the …
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Roger Catherineau photograms

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Actuphoto.com – Saint-denis,France
The pictures, nearly all from the nineteen-fifties, also share a tightly wound kinetic energy with the Abstract Expressionism of that period, …

Art Review: James Lavadour at Hallie Ford

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The Oregonian – OregonLive.com – Portland,OR,USA
Beginning in 2000, Lavadour began to fully incorporate his increasingly expansive interests in Chinese painting, Abstract Expressionism, the riffs of the …

Out with a whisper

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Metro Spirit – Augusta,GA,USA
Their goal was a raw and impulsive art form where what was significant was the paint and the act of painting. Abstract expressionism infused excitement into …

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From Russia’s French connection

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Channel 4 News – London,UK
This movement sees its most radical manifestation in the paintings of Malevich, whose purely abstract renderings of crosses and boxes became known as …

A splash of youth

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Richmond Times Dispatch – Richmond,VA,USA
Many observers compare Ben’s style to abstract expressionism, especially Jackson Pollock, the “action painting” guru whom wags dubbed Jack the Dripper in …

Paula Scher: Mapping Out A Changing World

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By hannykardinata
Seeing the world through Scher’s eyes – something you can do in her stunning exhibition of paintings currently on view at the Maya Stendhal Gallery- offers a provocative insight into an abstract world. There’sa paradoxical conflict …

Gersch Creating a “Symphony of Form”

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By wendi(wendi)
When I first walked into the Red Clover Gallery, I found myself asking, “What makes abstract art interesting?” Before I could answer that I felt myself drawn closer to a painting in the far corner that was full of joyful color except in …
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Art as Cultural Weapon

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By saishman(saishman)
Some of these facts may help explain why Abstract Expressionism was singled out as the art form to be promoted by American art institutions in the 1950′s and 1960′s. Abstract Expressionism can be seen as the antidote to iconographical …

Off the Wall

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Art Cal – NY,USA
His expressive language has moved towards the poetic and the abstract. Long known as the provocative enfant terrible of young European painters he used to …

Energy of the Fluid Field

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By roberta(roberta)
This is not a grandiose abstract painting but one, like those of Mary Heilman, that is sunny and a little self-involved but in a gracious way that invites you to partake of the fun. Read Brent’s great post (link above) which has lots of …

You say potato

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By Jim Barr and Mary Barr(Pippin)
Where an American would see an abstract painting we’ve been trained by works like Today will be the same… painted by McCahon in 1958 to see them as slate grey land with lowering dark skies. We remember having this discussion with an …

The Politically Correct Abu Ghraib Torture Paintings by Fernando …

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By The Right Reverend James W. Bailey(The Right Reverend James W. Bailey)
… to conceptual and abstract work. But they are a golden brand everywhere else in the world — lucrative, popular, collectible. Even the name Botero is shorthand for one of his paintings or one of his trademark pudgy figures, …

A load of Pollocks

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By KFC
In 1999, Richard “Drippy” Taylor at the Univesity of New South Wales in Australia announced that he was able to tell a painting by the American abstract expresisonist Jackson Pollock by analysing the fractal patterns made by the paint …

The Most Popular Online Photography Tools

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By admin
… a range of abstract things and scenes, and a variety of other topics. Stuck In Customs – blog by one of the greatest HDR photographers on the net. Black and White Photography is a great photo blog focusing on black and white photos. …

Hal Foster on The Painting of Modern Life

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By joy garnett
Abstract painters like Kandinsky, Foucault once argued, did away with resemblance, but still affirmed the real; they simply located it elsewhere, in a transcendental beyond. Surrealist painters like Magritte performed a stranger trick: …

Macro Tutorials

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By nycgraphix
Macro Photography, Macro Photographer, Macro Photographers Directory of Macro Photography web site listings. Create a lightweight, cheap photo backdrop from PVC. Abstract smoke photography How-to guide on making pictures of smoke …

Art installation largest in city’s history

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Savannah Morning News – Savannah,GA,USA
“The Orange Step,” an open-air collection of 128 abstract paintings by the Bulgarian artist, is making its United States debut among the trees of Savannah’s …

Abstract artist James Brinsfield’s life, like has art, sometimes …

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Kansas City Star – MO,USA
An exhibition of Brinsfield’s large-scale paintings, influenced as much by his immersion in the Chicago jazz and blues scene as by his exposure to abstract …

Artist of the Week

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By Jason(Jason)
OA: While at NIU you developed your fascination with and ability to create abstract painting, what else did you take away from your time at NIU? NV: Self sufficiency. Being filed away at the topmost farthest corner of the NIU art annex …

One Man’s Wallpaper

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New Yorker – United States … like plausible Pollocks, at least in the sense that they were abstract and drippy. “They were under a stack of paintings about this tall,” Jamison, …

Abstract Confusionism

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Conde Nast Portfolio – New York,NY,USA – It has a special advisory panel that reviews taxpayer valuations of expensive paintings, sculpture, and other works—generally items valued at more than …

Anarchy in the UK

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Artnet – New York,NY,USA – Smith’s first UK exhibition presents about 200 small works from the series, “Drawings from around the time I became a porn star,” a few abstract paintings …

Gary Hume: Colour magic

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Mixed in with them are more abstract paintings of what Hume describes as “ugly chicks”. Some of his paintings look banal, but others are viscerally exciting …

Hedge-Fund Collectors Tour London’s Backstreets to Find Artists

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Fenn-Smith bought an abstract painting by Danny Rolph after visiting his studio in Hackney Wick. She also wanted a work by Neil Gall, who was showing in …

TED – Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

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Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

French court tries woman for kissing Twombly painting

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The painting, which is worth nearly $3 million, is owned by collector Yvon Lambert. Twombly is known for his abstract paintings combining painting and…

Damien Hurst

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“I can’t pretend I saw the relevance of the spot paintings then,” says Sir Norman Rosenthal, exhibition secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, whom Hirst personally chauffeured to the show early one morning in his beat-up car. …

Anthony Campuzano takes us where dead men walk

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A lively imagination tries a chant from the basement.

Exclusive Interview with Amir Bar-Lev

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The Director of My Kid Could Paint That discusses the paintings of Marla, the world of modern art and the controversy that overtook the Olmstead family.

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