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Freak-Show Big-Money Auction: Warhol’s “Double Elvis” Brings $37 Million

An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol went for $37 Million... more

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Warhol’s Cowboy “Double Elvis” Could Bring $50 Million at Auction!

An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol is poised to go for as... more

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the kaleidoscope called humanity……….

kaleidoscope called humanity

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Fun with thrift shops

Fun with thrift shops http://www.uniquescoop.com/2012/01/fun-with-thrift-shops.html

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What is the connection between creativity and reducing your stress level?

How painting outdoors can relieve stress and inspire your creativity. Learn More... more

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Thanksgiving: The Freedom from Want

“Freedom from Want” or “The Thanksgiving Picture” is one of... more

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An Artistic History of Music: Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review

“Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review” is an exhibition of over... more

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A Note on the Rock Art of Lake Namtso, Tibet

Lake Namtso, one of two holy lakes in Tibet, forms the centre of the valley floor and... more

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Cy Twombly: Scratching and Scribbling to the Heights of Abstract Expressionism

Cy Twombly (1928-2011), whose spare, delicate scratching and scribbling, odd marks, raw smudges, and gorgeous visceral color with intimations of myth, narrative and poetic engagement with antiquity left him often ignored by the movements of postwar American art, even as he eventually became one of the era’s most significant painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83.

His artistic career roguishly subverted Abstract Expressionism, dipped briefly into Minimalism, barely acknowledged Pop art, but anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a polarizing figure in the art world almost from the beginning. His work has been described by one important art curator as “influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well.”

Twombly left New York City and moved permanently to southern Italy in 1957 and paid little heed to his many critics, who constantly questioned whether his work really deserved a place at the forefront of 20th century abstraction. The low point for Twombly probably came after a widely panned 1964 exhibition in New York, which one critic described as a blatant fiasco. However, he lived long enough to see his work receive new-found attention and a degree of critical favor he had never enjoyed before. By the 1990s, he had become highly sought after not only by European museums and collectors, who had appreciated his work early on, but also by those back in the United States who had not known what to make of him two decades before.

During the final decade of his life, Twombly surpassed his earlier body of work, making tremendous late abstract works telling tales of ancient armies, otherworldly invasions of burning suns and radiating chrysanthemums. His works from this later period invoked twelfth-century dynasties, exoduses, love, loss and longing. He had launched upon a creative journey to some artistic place where the deepest of feelings, experiences, expectations, dreams, and love become one.

This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, a gallery and two documentary short films.

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Remembering Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death (July 21,... more

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A Home Full of Art: A Consumerist Nightmare

“Oakridge Road” is a series of paintings by Jessica Rohrer, which is... more

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Unbelievable the Art of Dapacu

Unbelievable the Art of Dapacu What do you see in this Masterpiece? When you... more

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Welcome Home: a Burning Man Portrait Project

Join an 18-month intensive artistic endeavor based on the incredible people of the... more

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Unveils.Tv unveils Dapacu, the incredible Multidimensional Art

DAPACU MULTIDIMENSIONAL ART And the name is fully correct. Now we want to... more

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7 Places Online to View Classic Art

One great way to take a break from the business of life is to check out websites which... more

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Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) became known as one of the most famous illustrators of his generation through his narrative paintings done in a readily recognizable naturalistic style, which appeared in national magazines reaching millions of readers. Born in 1894 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, he left high school to study at the National Academy of Design and later the Art Students League of New York. By the age of eighteen he was already a published artist specializing in children’s illustration and had become a regular contributor to magazines such as “Boys’ Life,” the Boy Scouts of America monthly magazine, where he was soon named art director. In 1916 he painted his first cover for “The Saturday Evening Post,” beginning a forty-seven-year relationship that resulted in 323 covers and was the centerpiece of his career.

To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged reference photographs that are now on view for the first time, alongside his paintings in “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.” The exhibition, which will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from November 19, 2010, through April 10, 2011.

In his early career, Rockwell saw photographs as “a dishonorable crutch for lazy draftsmen,” but once he surrendered to the camera’s charms, photography transformed his art. Beginning in the late 1930s, Rockwell adopted photography as a tool to bring his illustration ideas to life in studio sessions. Rockwell relied on others to operate the camera; he focussed on posing his models. He created numerous photographs for each new subject, sometimes capturing complete compositions and, at other times, combining separate pictures of individual elements. Over the forty years that he used photographs as his guide, he worked with many skilled photographers, particularly Gene Pelham, Bill Scovill, and Louis Lamone.

This piece includes a number of photographs and color illustrations, a slide show and a documentary short film on Norman Rockwell's art.

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Amazing Mind Blowing Watercolor Paintings By Steve Hanks

Amazing hyper realistic watercolor paintings by artist Steve Hanks

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Paintings: Janet Ternoff

Upon discovering Janet's works through vimeo, in my never ending thirst for good... more

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10 Artists Not Appreciated in Their Time

Some of the most beloved and influential artists in history struggled to get their... more

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George Condo: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Grotesque Looney Tunes

George Condo is a prolific painter whose career spans almost three decades, creating... more

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