Monday 23 July 2012

Stone Age art gets animated

Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give observers the impression that lions and other wild beasts were charging across cave walls, two French investigators find.

Ancient artists created graphic stories in caves and illusions of moving animals on rotating bone disks, say archaeologist Marc Azéma of the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail in France and Florent Rivère, an independent artist based in Foix, France.

Flickering torches passed over painted scenes would have heightened onlookers’ sense of seeing live-action stories, the researchers suggest in the June Antiquity.
Azéma and Rivère summarize their 20 years of research on Stone Age animation techniques, much of it previously published in French, in the new paper. They also describe for the first time examples of animation at two French caves, Chauvet and La Baume Latrone.

A 10-meter-long Chauvet painting represents a hunting story, Azéma proposes. The story begins by showing several lions, ears back and heads lowered, stalking prey. Mammoths and other animals appear nearby. In a second section of the painting, a pride of 16 lions, some drawn smaller than the rest to appear farther away, lunge toward fleeing bison.

Stone Age artists meant to depict animal movement in such scenes, Azéma says. An eight-legged bison at Chauvet, for example, resulted from superimposing two images of the creature in different stances to create the appearance of running.

In France, 53 figures in 12 caves superimpose two or more images to represent running, head tossing and tail shaking. At the famous Lascaux Cave, 20 painted animals display multiple heads, legs or tails.
A carving on an animal bone from another Stone Age cave in France depicts three freeze-frame images of a running lion, another way to represent motion.
Ancient Europeans also invented a kind of animation toy, the researchers suggest. Sites in France and Spain have yielded stone and bone disks, typically with center holes, showing opposing images of sitting and standing animals.

In experiments conducted since 2007, Rivère has reproduced these engraved disks and looped strands of animal tendon through the center holes. By twisting these strands, the disks rotate back and forth rapidly enough to make animals appear to be sitting down and standing up.
That’s the principle behind the thaumatrope, a device invented (or perhaps reinvented) in 1825. Two strings attached to the ends of a disk or card with an image on each side — say, a vase opposite a bouquet of flowers — were twirled between the fingers, so that the rotating pictures appeared to combine into a single image, such as flowers in a vase.


Monday 16 July 2012

The Mona Lisa's Twin Painting Discovered


The Mona Lisa is one of the most enigmatic and iconic pieces of Western art. It has inspired countless copies, but one replica at the Madrid's Museo del Prado is generating its own buzz: Conservators say that it was painted at the same time as the original — and possibly by one of the master's pupils, perhaps even a lover.

Juxtaposing the two paintings — and using infrared technology, which works like an X-ray, allowing one to see beneath the paint to see previous, obscured versions — conservators say that Leonardo and the painter of the replica made exactly the same changes at the same time.

The copy brings da Vinci's studio to life — and stirs up questions. Who was this mystery painter? According to Bailey, the artist is likely to have been one of Leonardo's main assistants: Melzi or Salai (who was rumored to have been da Vinci's lover).
Side by side, the pictures look noticeably different: The copy is significantly brighter and more colorful; even  

Mona Lisa's famously coy smile takes on a new cast.
Bailey says the find will be relevant to historians and laypeople, in that paradoxically, a copy might bring viewers to the original with fresh eyes.

Friday 13 July 2012

Stone Age art gets animated

Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give observers the impression that lions and other wild beasts were charging across cave walls, two French investigators find.

Ancient artists created graphic stories in caves and illusions of moving animals on rotating bone disks, say archaeologist Marc Azéma of the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail in France and Florent Rivère, an independent artist based in Foix, France.

Stone Age artists intended to give life to their images,” Azéma says. “The majority of cave drawings show animals in action.”

Flickering torches passed over painted scenes would have heightened onlookers’ sense of seeing live-action stories, the researchers suggest in the June Antiquity.

Azéma and Rivère summarize their 20 years of research on Stone Age animation techniques, much of it previously published in French, in the new paper. They also describe for the first time examples of animation at two French caves, Chauvet and La Baume Latrone.

“Movement and action are indeed represented in cave art in different manners,” remarks archaeologist Jean Clottes, a rock-art specialist who now serves as honorary conservator general of heritage for the French Ministry of Culture. Clottes led a 1998 investigation of Chauvet’s 30,000-year-old cave paintings.

A 10-meter-long Chauvet painting represents a hunting story, Azéma proposes. The story begins by showing several lions, ears back and heads lowered, stalking prey. Mammoths and other animals appear nearby. In a second section of the painting, a pride of 16 lions, some drawn smaller than the rest to appear farther away, lunge toward fleeing bison.

Stone Age artists meant to depict animal movement in such scenes, Azéma says. An eight-legged bison at Chauvet, for example, resulted from superimposing two images of the creature in different stances to create the appearance of running.

In France, 53 figures in 12 caves superimpose two or more images to represent running, head tossing and tail shaking. At the famous Lascaux Cave, 20 painted animals display multiple heads, legs or tails.

A carving on an animal bone from another Stone Age cave in France depicts three freeze-frame images of a running lion, another way to represent motion.

Ancient Europeans also invented a kind of animation toy, the researchers suggest. Sites in France and Spain have yielded stone and bone disks, typically with center holes, showing opposing images of sitting and standing animals.

In experiments conducted since 2007, Rivère has reproduced these engraved disks and looped strands of animal tendon through the center holes. By twisting these strands, the disks rotate back and forth rapidly enough to make animals appear to be sitting down and standing up.

That’s the principle behind the thaumatrope, a device invented (or perhaps reinvented) in 1825. Two strings attached to the ends of a disk or card with an image on each side — say, a vase opposite a bouquet of flowers — were twirled between the fingers, so that the rotating pictures appeared to combine into a single image, such as flowers in a vase.

Friday 29 June 2012

Exhibition at Tate Modern reassesses the work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye is a major exhibition which reassesses the work of this Norwegian painter. It proposes a ground-breaking dialogue between the artist’s paintings and drawings made in the first half of the 20th century and his often overlooked interest in the rise of modern media, including photography, film and the re-birth of stage production.

Few other modern artists are better known and yet less understood than Munch (1863-1944). He is often presented primarily as a 19th century painter, a Symbolist or a pre-Expressionist, but this exhibition aims to show how he engaged emphatically with 20th century concerns that were thoroughly representative of the modernity of the age. Organised in close cooperation with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Munch Museum in Oslo, it features over sixty carefully-selected paintings and fifty photographs, alongside his lesser-known filmic work. These reveal Munch’s interest in current affairs and how his paintings were inspired by scenes observed in the street or incidents reported in the media. Far from confining himself to the studio, he frequently worked outdoors to capture everyday life.

The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it. It gathers together different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child from 1907 and 1925 and The Girls on the Bridge from 1902 and 1907, and others from collections including the Gothenberg Konstmuseum and the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Like other painters such as Bonnard and Vuillard, Munch adopted photography in the early years of the 20th century and his photographic activities were largely focused on self-portraiture, which he obsessively restaged and reworked. Self-portraits also lay at the heart of Munch’s painted oeuvre. In the 1930s he developed an eye disease and made poignant works which charted the effects of his degenerating sight. His last work, on display here, was one such self-portrait.

 Munch’s use of prominent foregrounds and strong diagonals reference the advancing technological developments in cinema and photography. Creating the illusion of actors moving towards the spectator, as if looming out from a cinema screen, this pictorial device can be seen in many of Munch’s most innovative works such as On the Operating Table 1902-03 and The Yellow Log 1912 from the Munch Museum. Munch was also keenly aware of the visual effects brought on by the introduction of electric lighting on theatre stages and used this to create ethereal drama in, for example, his 1907 Green Room series. The duality of presence and erasure is further explored in key works such as The Sun 1910-13 and Starry Night 1922-24, where matter takes on an ephemeral or ghostlike appearance. The exhibition was organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, in cooperation with the Munch Museum, Oslo and in association with Tate Modern, London. It was curated by Angela Lampe and Clément Chéroux at the Centre Pompidou and by Nicholas Cullinan at Tate Modern assisted by Shoair Mavlian. A fully illustrated catalogue is available from Tate Publishing.

Friday 15 June 2012

The Wonderful Oil Paint Of Scottish Landscapes


The wonderful art of Francis e Jamieson pAair framed scottish oil landscapes 1910-40We offer this exceptional and large pair of framed Scottish beautiful landscapes by renowned artist Francis E Jamieson and oil painted between 1910 and 1940. Painted in oil on canvas one oil portrays a picture by a cottage next to a loch below a mountainous back drop while the other shows wonderful a waterfall set within a mountainous luxury's landscape. Both are signed FE Jamieson and both were framed in the 1960’s in frames contemporary of the a period.

The Excellent Cottage Cattle Watercolour Painting



This is an excellent English School water color dating from the during Victorian period.The wonderful art of painting cottage scene depicts a classic late nineteenth  Century antique Victorian period sweet 'chocolate box' study of a tatched cottage with leaded windows nestled beside huge mature trees in the rural English countryside. Two cows, one recumbent, bask in the sunshine as cute voices of birds fly in the blue clouded sky.

The 17th Century Of Oil Painting White Goat



This magnificent late 17th century oil painting of white goats, sheep and shepherd dogs on a mountainside is typical of the pastoral works of some Flemish and Dutch artists working in Italy in the late 17th century.

The great famous in Rome, these artists formed a society known as the Bentveughels ('Birds of a Feather'), known for its scandal as well as for its most intellectual life, which was active c. 1620-1720, and consisted of some 70 members, many with famous nicknames such as 'Scarecrow', 'the Ferret', 'Ugly Puppet', 'Sunflower', 'Adonis'. The wonderful present artist is likely to have worked within this orbit, specialising as a painter of animals in the same tradition as Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657 Antwerp), Snyders' brother-in-law Paul de Vos (Hulst 1591- 1678 Antwerp), Snyder's pupil Jan Fyt (Antwerp 1611-1661 Antwerp), Fyt's pupil David de Coninck (Antwerp 1644-1701 Brussels), and Rosa da Tivoli (Frankfurt am Main 1657-1706 Rome).

The drama of Italian landscape as well as the country's rich cultural heritage provided many such artists with the material for their works, and the present wonderful painting, whose grand scale suggests that it was commissioned for an aristocratic beautiful house, evidently draws on the strong Italianate pastoral tradition amongst Flemish artists.

Tuesday 5 June 2012

The Oil Paintings Of Southern State




The great Tanjore Painting is most a special, very old, minute type of painting named after the place Tanjore (Thanjavur in Tamil) in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of great INDIA. These oil paintings are made by the 'cover with golden and gem-set modern technique' a method where gold colored leaves & sparkling shining stones are used to emphasize certain aspects of the paintings like wonderful ornaments, colorful dresses etc. Tanjore wonderful Paintings are known for their art richness, vibrant colors and condensed most composition. Basically serving as devotional different symbols, the subject matters of most of these paintings are Hindu culture  Gods and Goddesses, Saints and Kings as well.

The oil paintings are the sights from the olden holy books of Hindu peoples religion. They are exceptional and rich in sequences of colors, designs, and most traditional techniques mixed with through attention to full details. High class gold foils brushes  are used to guarantee the oil paintings lasts decades and becomes treasures of the family.

The World Modern Technique Of Oil Paintings Portraits



A style of oil painting portraits and natural sceneries or else objects is oil painting. Oil painting is done with a special mixture of colorful paints known as blends to form an act6ual depiction of lively scenes of objects. As this kind of painting gives more natural and actual appeal to the wonderful painting, it is being widely used by the painting and portrait artists all over the painting world. The luster of the colors used in this king of painting is so appealing and the painting even looks like an wonderful original photo.

World most famous portraits, paintings and personalities photos have been reproduced into message of beautiful oil paintings. As the modern artists reproduce those spectacular oil painting marvels into more beautiful, appealing oil paintings. These oil painting reproductions seems to be more lustrous and appealing as they are compared to the original ones because of art of modern techniques of oil painting.

Tuesday 29 May 2012

The Art Painting Of A blazing Home Artistic Expressions

 
 
 
North ville great artist Martha Barnes took the first place in the 2012 VAAL Spring Art Exhibit, “Artistic Expressions” for her acrylic art of oil painting of a blazing home. Juror Judy Wolfe, of Eastern Michigan, awarded 1st prize to Barnes for her acrylic art of oil painting of a blazing home, “A Controlled Burn”. Barnes stated that she photographed the image while on a recent nice trip to Oregon. A fire department there was conducting a training of huge firemen. The burning wonderful house was destroyed and replaced by a new one. After taking several photographs, she decided to paint the scene. 
Barnes has plan to  painting for about 50 years. Oils and watercolor are two other mediums she works in and she has taught classes in oil paintings and acrylics in the past. Her favorite subjects are still life and beautiful landscape. She has studied with Maxine Master field and Nita Engle.

Sunday 27 May 2012

The Art of Fashion-Kehinde Wiley


Riccardo Tisci is incredibly gifted,” writes artist Kehinde Wiley from his great studio in Beijing, where he’s putting the finishing art of touches on “An Economy of Grace,” a series of African-American cute female portraits inspired by historical oil paintings that will be shown at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.  It’s the first time Wiley has focused solely on the fairer sex typically his work out depicts African-American men in contemporary street wear, painted against Baroque or other backgrounds and he asked Tisci, whom he met through the gallery, to create wonderful custom dresses for the sittings. 

Both Wiley’s vibrant and provocative aesthetic and Tisci’s vision of a strong, most powerful woman are in arguably modern, and yet Wiley believes this idea of artist joining forces with nice designer is as old as the Enlightenment-era paintings his workout  references. “In the 18th and 19th century, commissioning unique clothing for most emphasis portraiture was common practice,” 

As part of their painting  research, the two took a tour through the Louvre, examining the costumes in works like great Jacques Louis David’s Portrait of Madame Récamier, which portrays the young, porcelain-skinned Madame Récamier dressed in a cap-sleeved, beautiful gauzy white dress that pools on the floor as she reclines on a Empire-style soft sofa.

Chinese Academy of Oil Painting Mind's Eye

Jiao Xiaojian's

The great Jiao Xiaojian's works focus on the relationship between sight and perception in his portrayals of ordinary scenes of southern China. Zhang Zixuan reports. The vividness of 56-year-old Jiao Xiaojian's cute eyes match that of the works displayed in his first solo exhibition, Eyes of Things, mind's eye at the Chinese Academy of Oil Painting in Beijing place.

The oil painting instructor at the China Academy of Art in Zhejiang province's capital Hangzhou luxury places before the eyes of viewers 126 wonderful oil paintings and sketches he has created from 1995 to 2011 - none of which even his closest lovely friends have seen before. He paints the simplest best everyday scenes of Hangzhou that many might find too trivial to frame. 

Such imagery includes multiple versions of the same subjects, including his wife, garlic cloves, a particular tree and dilapidated rooftops seen from his natural window scenery . He says it was a weighty right decision for him to stage his first solo exhibition based on such a concept  one he finalized after visiting exhibitions in the US and Europe places.

Thursday 24 May 2012

The Top Of Mountain Landscape Oil Paintings



If one has tried to stand on top of the mountain painting  and look at the view of the huge forests, the chill  rivers and the rocks – one cannot help but get captivated by it, and this is the beauty that is being preserved in the landscape art movement.

This genre is naturalistic in form and tends to magnify the view natural of land forms such as mountains, valleys or volcanoes including the long rivers and vegetation that are in it. Another important rule in this art genre is to almost always include a view of the clouds sky may it be the combining of black and blue in the early fresher  morning, the gem blue sky during the day or the battle between red and purple at sunset.

Visual forms of wonderful landscape art can be divided between the Oriental and Western art, with this article having more most focus on the latter. Landscape oil paintings from the Western world particularly the art centers of Europe like Netherlands, France and Italy, tend to depict the terrains as serene, calm, and relaxing. The article would mention some examples of these landscape art of oil paintings.

The World's Most Famous Wonderful Mona Lisa Painting



Mona Lisa

  Mona Lisa, the world's most famous wonderful painting, owned by the French government and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The oil painting shows a woman looking at viewer with what is often described as "enigmatic smile". Mona Lisa painting  is probably the most famous in the history of art; several other painting works of art are as romantic, celebrate.


Mona Lisa, oil painting on most a poplar wood panel by the great Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most excellent  famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1506, when da Vinci was living in Florence place, and it now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. 

Tuesday 15 May 2012

The Basic Of Oil Painting Overview

  
All paint is a mixture of a dry pigment and solid of a liquid. The oil paint the dry pigment is mixed with linseed oil. Linseed oil is a drying oil that dries by chemical oxidation. That is, it takes oxygen from the air and creates a crystalline solid that encases the pigment in a permanent form reaction . When it's dry it 's never possible to removed.

 Oil paint is so much thick. It comes in tubes of color. The paints are squeezed out onto a palette where they are mixed together with a palette knife to make the various new colors. It's then applied to a vertical canvas with stiff painting brushes.

 Oil paints are slow drying part. Usually taking 3 days before you can put on another coat. The drying time is may be an advantage and disadvantage also. The great advantage is that you have time to refine and adjust what you painting before it dries. This is particularly useful when making gradual transitions from one color to another color. Also if you painting something you don't like, it can be removed while wet using a rag, palette knife or rubber squeegee and replace it.

 The disadvantages are that when putting two wet colors next to each other they can cross-contaminate if not applied accurately. The palette, the stiff  brushes and the wet painting must be handled carefully to keep wet paint off, fingers, food, fabric and furniture etc.,The paint may be manipulated for up to 12 hours after which you must wait three days for it to dry before going back to make any changes. When oil paint is dry, new colors can be applied over old color. Many layers of paint may be applied at any time.

The Oil Painting -Colossus of Rhodes

The oil painting colors says Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic hollow bronze statue of Apollo. It was erected around old century 292-275 B.C. by Chares of Lindus to overlook the harbor of Rhodes. It required twelve years to build but stood only 56 years until it was overthrown and broken to the  pieces by huge earthquake in 224 B.C..

 The statue stood upward of 105 feet high top on an embankment facing the port (not straddling the first entrance to the port as was often thought).  The legs of the statue were filled with masonry to keep the statue from being top strong heavy.  This and other precautions were unable to save yet another of the wonderful painting ancient wonders from the fury of earthquakes.  It lay broken on the rocks for 896 years until Arab conquerors sold it as scrap metal in 672 A.D..

The Art Of Oil Painting Glazing Media

 
The arts of oil paintings are the most respected and highly valued of all the wet painting media and with very good meaningful reasons. Oils can be controlled better than anything else in our life.

Oil paintings are also the most expensive painting media and can be the most toxic as well. This set of tube colors, nice brushes, and various mediums cost six hundred dollars. The good messages is the paints are not the problem but the cleaning and glazing media.
 
The old experiences masters mostly used refined linseed oil painting and turpentine and these have been replaced with much better substitutes in the 21st century generation that do not contain lead.Sadly, there is no much entirely non-toxic oil painting experience. 24 hour hour drying time rather than weeks releases fumes for a short time period and less toxicity is better than extremely intense toxicity. 
 
Odorless mineral spirits like Gamsol by Gamblin are expensive but get rid of the very strong smell almost altogether. They dilute the arts of paint just as well nice and make clean up a breeze. When oil painting on an upright canvas on an easel, or over any wet colorful painting a ball-stick is a must to keep a steady hand and protect sticky or nice wet areas from getting ruined.

Monday 14 May 2012

The Painting Of Angels An Many Ways Life


The wonderful oil painting of over thousands of years, mankind has described the functions of angels in many types of  ways. The role of angels is developed in greatest detail in world religions based on revelation the disclosure or communication of divine truth or divine will to human beings. These most monotheistic religions that share this view include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism.

How far this Angelology was most influenced by Babylonian and Persian mythology, and what its kind of relations are to Mandæan lore and to great Egyptian-Hellenistic Gnosticism, is still a matter of dispute but Persian mythology is throughout and interwoven with Angelology (see best Brandt, "Mandäische Religion," pp. 194-198). Coptic Gnosticism, also, has Ariel as king of the nether world painting , corresponding with your of the Mandæans.So, many nice world history painting shows real kings life.

The Holy Angels Who God Has Sent To Minister


God and men

The love of spiritual beings intermediate between God and men; described in Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic scriptures, as well as in the great Kabala. They are most celestial attendants of almighty God. The most grerat famous of them are Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Metatron. The nature of angels love  is that they are servants of God and have no never free will, they were made of fire as men were made from soil of clay and do only that which God bids them.

 In most traditional angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, high powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels). They served as messengers and saviors to mankind, but the tradition tells us a third of them rebelled against the most high led by Lucifer, the most beautiful of them all in a war in heaven before the world of  earth was formed. They were the judged and are now called demons and are as malevolent and pernicious as the holy angels are kind and beneficial...

Tuesday 8 May 2012

The Great Cradel Of Civilization Painting



Early great excellent oil painting of western civilizations included the Egyptians and Babylonians.

  The ancient city of Babylon ruled the world history  in it's day just as Rome did in hers. Called "The Cradle of Civilization" it was the birthplace of our Royal modern courts and justice system based upon the legendary "Code of Hammurabi" and boasted as it's showpiece one of the seven wonders of the ancient world; The wonderful  Hanging Gardens of Babylon built by Legendary King Nebucadnezzar  for his wife.

   The original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only The Great Pyramids in Egypt still stand today. Built by The Pharaoh Cheops, ( 2900-2877 B.C.) The Great huge Pyramids are the costliest monuments any man has ever built to himself, and their construction methods remain a mystery to this day.

The Wonderful Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The wonderful Hanging Gardens were a series of terraces rising along the Euphates huge river bank in five tiers of 50 feet each above the next and connected by marble stairways. Each tier was planted with a profusion of fabulous big trees, shrubs, and colorful flowers. The luxury gardens were chill watered by fountains fed through pipes from cisterns in the topmost terrace. Nebuchadnezzar had history's most celebrated the gardens developed as an adjunct to his peaceful palace; but the Greeks ascribed them to Semiramis; a legendary wonder queen of Babylon, daughter of the goddess Derceto. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were dedicated to the great planet Venus.

The Amazing Oil Painting Of Natural Sunset


Bequeathed to the nation in 1857, the “Chichester Canal” is regarded one of the most excellent spectacular of all Turner’s works. Commissioned by George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, it is thought  the wonderful painting ambient like natural sunset hues were inspired by the beautiful atmospheric effects ofthe Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia, around April 1815. The occurrence led to 1815 being dubbed the “Year Without yellow Summer” for many years afterwards. Turner’s impression of this East-facing vista down Chichester Canal is believed to be the very same view he saw from the windows of nice  Petworth Manor, West Sussex.
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The Mermorable Art Of Haywain (1821) – By John Constable


The great leader of the Romanticists during the 18th Century art revolution, John Constable is best known for his classical portrayals of excellent rural landscapes and village life, capturing luxury scenes as they happened. Much of his work centres around the ribbons of greenery either side of the wonderful River Stour, Suffolk – where Constable lived for most of his memorable life. 

The Haywain type of  life at Flatford Mill on the River Stour, as it would have looked in 1821 at  London. The diminutive cottage to the left belonged to Willy Lott, farmer and owner of the surrounding evergreen lands.
Today, “The Haywain” takes pride of wonderful  place among several notable Constable works, at the National Gallery, London.

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Paintings at Peking University


Work of art by Hong Kong visual artists has been revealed at Peking University. A beautiful watercolor work of art by Hong Kong painter Fanny Wong is presently being held at Peking University.  The subject of the occasion is “The Charm of Cantonese Opera” by name.

Fanny Wong begins her career as an artist 15 years ago and right now she plays a role as a guest teacher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Successively until April 26, the display for paintings consists of two parts namely the paintings of leading female roles in Cantonese Opera and the paintings of various types of colorful flowers, including roses and tulips.

“The work exhibited at Peking University is not only an honor for me but also a great honor for the entire people of Hong Kong”, said Hong Kong Artist Fanny Wong.

Friday 30 March 2012

Relived Cezanne painting up for public sale


It has been said that the rare master piece of Paul Cezanne has been lost but it has reemerged and is likely to take between $15 million and $20 million at sale in New York, said Christie. The master piece belongs to the Post-impressionist water color work of art category. 

The sale house said that the schoolwork for the work of art Joueur des cartes ("Card Players") was last seen in Public in 1953 but now it has been found in a secretive album in Texas. On May 1st it seems that there will be an emphasize of the auction house's Impressionist deals in New York

Cezanne completed the significant five-painting sequence “The Card Players” in between the year 1890-1896. Until that time public knew this story only through a black and white photograph, but it relives this year in the collection of the late Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, a medical expert and art

Painting At Auction


A family portrayal is exhibited at the appetizer of 'The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The presentation center on the collections of Gertrude Stein and her brothers, Leo and Michael and Michael's wife, Sarah; features works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, and Auguste Renoir. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP

Monday 12 March 2012

Paintings by Patient

For the first time, several drawings by patient from Yerawada Regional Mental Hospital to go on show in island country after unsigned NRI woman sponsors art material worth Rs 1 lakh.It seems that the work of art exhibition by Yerawada patient will be held in Singapore next month. Rajgurunagar (Khed) a professional artist is a patient from is in his mid-fifties.

The exhibition of the patient's work of art has been made possible by the dignified act of sponsorship by an anonymous NRI donor from Singapore. The work of art by the patients has been noticed by the NRI woman, who does not wish to be named when she has a visit to the hospital. She decided to sponsor material worth Rs 1 lakh through the Give India Foundation, to provide the required material for the patient to continue their work of art.

 It seems that the paintings will be displayed along with the well-known painters in Singapore.
Dr Vilas Bhialume said that a patient, who was a painter by profession, undergoes a substance-induced psychotic disorder and also valvular heart disease. An intoxicating since 1980, he was initially admitted to the hospital after a court order on November 30, 2009. Since then he's been admitted to the Yerawada hospital many times by his relatives. He was finally liberated on May 31, 2011, but comes for normal check-ups.

The medical superintendent of the Yerawada hospital Bhialume said that there has been much chronological trust regarding the connection of art to mental commotion. In current years there has been much investigation which provides support to these beliefs. In this case, though, the patient was by profession a painter and so had a natural fondness towards painting and imagination. He also added that he feels great to see a patient with a disorder getting such heights in his career.

Bhialume said that the officials at the mental hospital will now be encouraging artistic skills among painters. In continuation he said that we have one more patient who is also a painter; if parallel chance comes in, he too will get alike honor.  In addition he said that he is sure that these activities will help our patients' quick revival and will also improve their self-confidence.

Monday 20 February 2012

Fountain Street Fine Art

The Art of Michelle Lougee and Bob Grignaffini,” at the Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery in Framingham try to make known their analysis of the world through shape and paint in a new exhibit: Work of art and Sculpture.

Sculptor Lougee of Cambridge and painter Grignaffini, formerly from Wellesley, aim to portray the delicate relationship between humans and nature using bright colors and defined shapes.

As an environmental sculptor and artist, Lougee forms colorful, spiritual sculptures to arrest the significance of humans’ responsibility to the earth and the notorious question of nature vs. technology. Her effortless, cellular figure depict the reality of the world and communicate a clear message to viewers: “What are we going to do?”

Lougee said that we are in a hazardous place right now. She also added that the way we live affects us in the future.

Grignaffini’s oil paintings reveal his views on places around the world. He captures the society and light that make a sight come to life using bright colors within solid forms. 

Paintings are a “celebration of color and form” within pastoral and small town landscapes, said Grignaffini. He also added that “Everything has spirit in it” and “I try to be honest with the way I’m laying the paint down.” Not all of his subjects are authentic.

Grignaffini - Pathway through a Garden - is intended to be an interactive section for viewers. He tempts us to stair into the painting with an extended staircase fleeting through a beautiful garden of bright greens, yellows and blues.

Both performers add inspiration from nature. Grignaffini’s paintings try to illustrate a sense of movement and life in otherwise stationary objects. Lougee loves the otherworldliness of the ocean and bases many of her figures on deep-sea life forms.