Artist Shaun Smyth has used his creative skills to reflect the development of the new bridge. He has selected seven expressionist oil paintings and three sketches from his project which captures the changing geographical landscape of Halton for an…
Paintings
Gustav Klimt’s Famous Paintings Get Recreated with Live Models
Using live models, elaborate props, and lots of gold, Austrian photographer Inge Prader paid homage to her compatriot, Gustav Klimt, with incredible photographic recreations of his famous paintings. The marvelous tableaus incorporate all the rich Art Nouveau symbolism we come to expect with Klimt,…
HEAVENLY painting
Did you know that one of the most famous paintings in the world hangs upside down? The painting is really a set of smaller paintings or scenes that tell stories from the Bible. The artist and sculptor Michelangelo painted the…
Museum’s Plan To Sell 40 Works Has Art World Up In Arms
The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., announced it would sell 40 works to fund its renovation and endowment, raising concerns from museum organizations that the instiution is treating its collection “as a disposable financial asset.” Above, an exhibit at the…
Ugandan Pioneer in Rare Display of Wildlife Paintings
Theresa Musoke is one of the first female contemporary artists to gain prominence in East Africa. In recent years, she has rarely exhibited, but now a selection of her works is on show at the Nairobi Gallery. Musoke is renowned…
Creating 24 paintings in 8 hours !
V Naga Lakshmi Bhavani’s solo exhibition titled ‘Passion Focus Magic’ is on display at Our Sacred Space, Secunderabad. Her works on different forms exemplifies emotions on canvas. Bhavani has created an incredible body of work by completing 24 paintings within…
Survival Stories
Raised in Mississippi by a single mother who was an English professor, Jill Shoffiett remembers reading. Lots of reading. She stayed in her room mostly as a teenager, by her recollection, writing, drawing and reading. Today Shoffiett tells her…
New Website Tracks Paintings Provenance from Brush to Gallery Wall
Mapping Paintings makes it easier to figure out an artwork’s chain of ownership When you gaze at a painting on the wall of an art museum or gallery, you might think of the artist who made it. But the…