Three Chinese watercolours which were bound for a student flat have been valued at £15,000. The paintings by Qi Baishi were found by auctioneers valuing the contents of a family home in Staffordshire. They had been bought in the 1950s…
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Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting
A long lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created a storm of attention…
Take a look at the world’s largest painting
Upon its completion next month, the 1,980-square-meter artwork will be cut into 60 pieces, which painter Sacha Jafri is auctioning off in the hope of raising $30 million for charity. Source: http://www.theprogressnews.com/news/nation/take-a-look-at-the-worlds-largest-painting-on-canvas/video_a61332f6-50dc-5925-b89b-bfa5d01c5772.html
MIT and Microsoft build a new algorithm to find hidden links between historic paintings
If you use Twitter regularly, you must’ve come across celebrities as food tweet threads. Some examples are Rihanna as Indian food and Olly Alexander as cakes. The idea is to match the look and color of the food to the celeb’s clothes. Researchers from…
Why Cecily Brown’s Lush Paintings Have Eternal Market Appeal
Painter Cecily Brown is best known for large-scale canvases filled with bravura brushstrokes that exert a certain visual magic. They reward long and careful looking, appearing abstract on first glance and eventually resolving into suggestive figures. Such compositions often conjure…
One-Punch Man artist shares 10-year-old daughter’s drawings online
Manga art looks like it’s drawn by someone twice her age. We’ve seen some brilliant art come out of Japan over the years, covering everything from chalk-drawn masterpieces on school blackboards through to 3-D illustrations that look as if they’re about to jump…
Prince Charles is one of the UK’s most successful living artists. Here are 15 of his works.
Though he describes himself as an “enthusiastic amateur,” Prince Charles is said to be one of the most successful living artists in the United Kingdom. His paintings were first exhibited in Windsor Castle in 1977, next to the work of his other…
SPOTLIGHT: Meet Tantua, Nigeria’s first functional sculpture artist who’s ‘giving life to classic cars’
When Diseye Tantua, a Nigerian artist, first experimented turning car parts into furniture in 2016, he had no clue that such adventure would catapult him into limelight. Tantua, then, was only driven by the quest to sustain his late father’s…
Hidden baby Jesus revealed under Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’
The Leonardo da Vinci painting the “Virgin of the Rocks” was hiding another image beneath its surface: a winged baby Jesus, a new X-ray examination has revealed. This isn’t the first signal that the “Virgin of the Rocks” hid older sketches that…
Art Fair Philippines Expands Despite Loss of Leading Galleries
Now in its eighth year, the car park art fair has new programming and more galleries than ever. Art Fair Philippines venue The Link carpark in Makati City, Manila. Courtesy Art Fair Philippines. Last year, 10 of the Philippines’ leading…