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Van Gogh Paintings Recreated with Spices

sanela — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:06:53 +0000

Young photographer and artist, Kelly A. McCollam, came up with a really creative and original method for recreating famous and world-known paintings of Van Gogh. She uses common kitchen ingredients, spices and food color to make these amazing and colorful reproductions. Salt cellar is apparently a thing of past. Now, when you host a fancy diner party, you can just put one of Kelly’s pieces on the table. That way you’ll get both spices and table decoration covered.

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The Most Striking Examples of Kiss in Art

sanela — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:24:56 +0000

It is impossible to go through the history of art, from the earliest times to modern and contemporary art, and not to take notice of the immense amount of pieces of art that feature that marvelous moment when two universes, two complex series of spiritual and emotional realms connect in the sweetest encounter in the world - the kiss. It is the most powerful, yet fragile touch, the expression of true binding between two people, that surrender in a complete belief. Therefor, there are so many artists that try to capture that magnificent moment. Here goes the list of the most striking and impressive pieces of art, the best kisses in art that are the most successful at passing off the magic of those few celestial flashes.

1. Gustav Klimt

The Kiss (original Der Kuss) was painted by Gustav Klimt, and is probably his most famous work. He began work on it in 1907 and it is the highpoint of his so-called ‘Golden Period’, when he painted a number of works in a similar style. It depicts a couple embracing, their bodies largely hidden by elaborate robes decorated in a style that bears little relation to any historical textile designs.

The Kiss
1908
by Gustav Klimt

2. Roy Lichtenstein

His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”.

Kiss V
1964
by Roy Lichtenstein

3. Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

The Kiss
1927
by Max Ernst

4. Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

Birthday
1915
by Marc Chagall

5. Jean-Honore Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French pronunciation: [ʒã onoʀe fʀaɡoˈnɑʀ]; 5 April 1732[2] – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.

The Stolen Kiss
1789
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

6. Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

The Kiss
1969
by Pablo Picasso

7. Man Ray

Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is noted for his photograms, which he renamed “rayographs” after himself.

Rayograph
1922
by Man Ray

8. Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

Maternal Kiss
1897
by Mary Cassatt

The Caress
1902
by Mary Cassatt

9. Marie Laurencin

Laurencin’s works include paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen. While her work shows the influence of Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who was her close friend, she developed a unique approach to abstraction which often centered on the representation of groups of women and female portraits. Her work lies outside the bounds of Cubist norms in her pursuit of a specifically feminine aesthetic by her use of pastel colors and curvilinear forms. Laurencin’s insistence on the creation of a visual vocabulary of femininity, which characterized her art until the end of her life, can be seen as a response to what some consider to be the arrogant masculinity of Cubism.

Kiss
1927
by Marie Laurencin

10. Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.

Flowers in Tender Bloom
1955
by Norman Rockwell

Day in the Life of a Little Girl
1952
by Norman Rockwell

11. Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

KISS
(1964)

The Kiss
1966
by Andy Warhol

12. Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

The Kiss
1950
by Jean Cocteau

13. Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele’s paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

The Kiss
1911
by Egon Schiele

14. Alfred Eisenstaedt

V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young nurse in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory.

by Alfred Eisenstaedt
1945
Kissing the War Goodbye

15. Michelangelo

Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

by Michelangelo
1537 to 1541
The Last Judgment

16. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres’s portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greeatest legacy.

By Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1819
Paolo and Francesca

17. Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

by Henri Matisse
1907
Music (Sketch)

18. Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

19. René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His work challenges observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.

The Lovers
René Magritte
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Self Portraits by Drug Addict

sanela — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:48:47 +0000

These are self portraits of a person who is using some rather dangerous drugs. They are all there and they are an amazing array of drugs. Some are legal pharmaceuticals and some are illegal street drugs. The self portraits speak for themselves.

Abilify / Xanax / Ativan

1 sm Glass of Absinth

10mg Adderall

10mg Ambien

15mg Buspar

4 Butalbitals

1/2 gram Cocaine

2 bottles of Cough Syrup

1 "Bump" of Crystalmeth

1 shot of Dilaudid / 3 shots of Morphine

Huffing Gas

Huffing Lighter Fluid

7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax

3mg Klonopin

10mg Loritab

Marijuana

Psilocybin Mushrooms

Nitrous Oxide

Nitrous Oxide / Valium I.V.

PCP

7.5mg Percocet

2 Pot Brownies

Marijuana Resin

5mg Risperdal

Ritilin

Salvia Divinorum

100mg Seroquel

20mg Valium

Valium I.V.

2mg Xanax

50mg Zoloft

Magical world of Dmitriy Strelkov

sanela — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:33:17 +0000

Dmitriy Strelkov was born in Moscow. Graduated from the fine art school in 1983. Graduated from the Graphic department of the Moscow Pedagogical University in 1988. The member of the International Federation of the Artists and of the International Art Fund. The paintings Dmitriy Strelkov are kept in private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Holland, Japan, Portugal, the USA and Turkey.

Paintings of pablo Picasso discovered at one electrician

sanela — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:53:09 +0000

A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros (£50.5m). Here are some of the pieces from this newly discovered collection.

The collection of 271 paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs, many of which were previously unknown, dates from 1900 to 1932. Among the works are nine cubist collages worth at least €40m, a painting from his celebrated blue period, drawings and models for some of his most important works and portraits of his first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova.

French art experts have been poring over the unexpected treasures since they were discovered nearly three months ago. Extraordinary as the collection is, the story of how it was uncovered is almost as sensational and is now at the heart of a police investigation into how the works first disappeared and then remained hidden for almost 40 years.

On 9 September this year, an elderly man calling himself Pierre Le Guennec travelled from his home on the Côte d’Azur to Paris and made his way to the offices of the Picasso Administration, which manages the artist’s legacy in rue Volney in the second arrondissement. He was carrying an unremarkable suitcase and was accompanied by his wife who, like him, is in her 70s.

Shown into the office of Claude Picasso, 63, the late painter’s son, who represents the artist’s heirs and estate, he opened the case he had with him and produced 175 different works that, he claimed, were by Picasso. At first, those gathered in Claude Picasso’s office suspected they were forgeries. But on close examination many of them were found to carry a numbering system known only to the painter.

The various works are from between 1900 and 1932, from the time when the young, unknown and penniless Picasso arrived in France from Barcelona to the beginning of his recognition as one of the world’s greatest 20th century artists. Picasso’s early days in Paris, then the art capital of Europe, were marked by poverty and desperation. Legend has it he and his first friend, the French journalist and poet Max Jacob, burnt his paintings to stave off the cold.

Some of the works, such as the fragile cubist collages, reportedly produced in 1912 when critics described them as “painted proverbs”, had been known to exist but were thought to have been lost when Picasso’s studio was flooded and during successive house moves.

Others, including a watercolour from his blue period, gouaches on paper, several studies of hands painted on canvas, and around 30 lithographs as well as portraits of Khokhlova, until now were entirely unknown. Le Guennec also produced two notebooks containing 97 previously unseen drawings, along with 59 photographs of other pieces. He told his astonished audience that Picasso and his wife Jacqueline had given him the various pieces after he installed alarm systems at the painter’s various homes, including the celebrated La Californie in Cannes, the Chateau de Vauvenargues and the mill at Notre Dame de Vie in Mougins, where Picasso died.

The electrician explained the gifts he was carrying in his suitcase were given in the three years leading up to Picasso’s death in 1973, but the full extent of the grand master’s apparent generosity was only discovered when police raided Le Guennec’s home at Mouans-Sartoux in the Alpes Maritimes in October, confiscating a total of 271 items. Le Guennec was later taken into custody by police, but was released and has not been charged with any crime.

The Picasso family has subsequently launched a legal action “against X” – meaning unknown persons – for receiving stolen goods. This is a common legal move in France allowing police and magistrates to investigate any number of possible suspects. Picasso’s friends and family find Le Guennec’s story hard to believe. They say Picasso was notoriously protective of his works, to the point that he was often reluctant to part with them even when they had been sold.

Claude Picasso told the French daily newspaper Libération that the discovery came after Le Guennec had sent him letters in January, March and April this year enclosing dozens of grainy photographs of various Picasso works he said he owned, and asking for certificates of authenticity.

Dismissing them as fakes because they did not appear in any catalogue or inventory of the artist’s known work, Claude Picasso refused Le Guennec’s requests. “Many of these pieces weren’t dated, which shows they should never have left his studio,” he said.

“When you look at my father’s works he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century. He kept everything: letters, métro tickets, theatre and bullfight tickets. Even the string used to tie the many letters brought to him every day … he would say it could be recycled in a painting. He would never have let go of so many pieces of his oeuvre in one go.”

He added: “To have given so much … it doesn’t make sense, to be honest. It’s true Pablo Picasso was quite generous, but he always dated, signed and dedicated his gifts, especially as he knew some would sell them to cover their needs.”

He said it was “out of the question” that Picasso’s last wife Jacqueline, who died in 1986, would have given Le Guennec the works.

The six family members who inherited his estate are now taking legal action for receipt of stolen goods, and the French office to prevent trafficking of cultural works is investigating.

Claude Picasso said the collection has a “historic importance” as it was produced during a “crucial period; a revolutionary movement in art”. Representatives of Sotheby’s and Christie’s in Paris said that although the collection is unlikely to come up for sale, the discovery is “important, interesting and extremely exciting”.

Le Guennec has denied stealing the works. “What will happen, will happen,” he told Libération.

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Wonderful art by Odwin Rensen

sanela — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:16:25 +0000

Have a look at these great pieces of art made by Odwin Rensen. His work is really amazing and realistic. Odwin is mostly painting figurative oil paintings, and his models are celebrities, people from everyday life and children and even animals.

Amazing oil paintings

sanela — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:50:57 +0000

The amazing oil paintings in these photos are the work of Paul Robert and they really show off his incredible artistic talent. He takes everyday life scenes and turns them into pieces of art. His work is fulled with supple details and that is what makes his paintings look so realistic at the end. Enjoy!

The most expensive paintings

sanela — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:17:04 +0000

This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. Since that time sales of the most valuable paintings have usually been made at auctions, though that had by no means always been the case before, and the list below still shows some “private sales”, including the three most expensive. The current record price was paid for a work from No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold at US$140 million in 2006, (approx. $150.6 million in CPI-adjusted 2010 US dollars)

1. No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - $150.6 million

The world’s most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. Guinness World Records lists the Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting in history. It was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962, before the painting toured the United States for several months.

2. Woman III by Willem de Kooning - $147.9 million

However, the Louvre chose to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be approximately US$713 million in 2010. The earliest sale on the list (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from 1987, and more than trebled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in top picture prices.

3. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt - $144.2 million

The sale was also significant in that for the first time a “modern” painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it. Currently there are only three old master paintings on the list below: namely Portrait of a Halberdier by Pontormo sold at US$35.2 million in 1989, Diana and Actaeon by Titian privately sold at £50 million (US$70.6 million) in 2009 and Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens sold at £49.5 million (US$76.7 million) in 2002. Before the March 1987 sale of Van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers for $39.7 million ($76.6 million in 2010 dollars), the highest absolute price paid for a painting was $10.45 million ($21.2 million in 2010 dollars) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Mantegna’s Adoration of the Magi at Christie’s in London on April 18, 1985.

4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh - $138.4 million

In constant dollars, the highest price paid before 1987 was by the National Gallery of Art when in February 1967 they acquired Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de’ Benci for around $5 million ($33 million in 2010 dollars) from the Princely Family of Liechtenstein.

5. Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - $131 million

This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of January 2010 United States dollars. Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the painting was sold. The inflation adjustment may change as recent inflation rates are often revised. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange rate fluctuations. Paintings are only listed once, i.e. for the highest price sold.

6. Garçon à la pipe by Pablo Picasso - $119 million

7. Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh - $100.9++ million

8. Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso - $101.9 million

9. Irises by Vincent van Gogh - $101.2 million

10. Eight Elvises by Andy Warhol - $100.1 million

11. Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe by Vincent van Gogh - $94.5 million

12. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II by Gustav Klimt - $94.5 million

13. Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens - $92.3 million

14. Triptych, 1976 by Francis Bacon - $86.3 million

15. False Start by Jasper Johns - $85.9 million

16. A Wheatfield with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh - $85.7 million

17. Les Noces de Pierrette by Pablo Picasso - $84.9 million

18. Yo, Picasso by Pablo Picasso - $83.8 million

19. Turquoise Marilyn by Andy Warhol - $83.4 million

20. Le Bassin aux Nymphéas by Claude Monet - $79.8 million

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Weapon art

sanela — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:33:40 +0000

Have a look at these interesting and original art works that are made not by a paint brush, or a pencil, but by weapons. It’s nice to see that not all weapons are used to kill people, but some of them are used to create art. It’s a pretty neat idea, and it sends a beautiful massage. It would be great if all guns could be used only this way and in this purpose.

Sybile art

sanela — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:56:44 +0000

Have a look at these beautiful and inspiring paintings and illustrations with strongly present Asian influence made by an artist that presents herself under the name “Sybile”. I searched her online and found info about her on Flickr, Deviantart and Facebook. Here’s what she says about herself and her work:
“Painter and illustrator, I am born and live in Brussels, Belgium where I have studied drawing and painting. My favorite technique is acrylic paint on canvas. My world is made of porcelain dolls floating through in times and fashions. A strong Asian influence comes from my fascination of the samurais and geisha’s era, cinema and Japanese anime. On top of painting, I work on illustrations books and art cards.”
You can find more of her amazing work here on her website. Enjoy!