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08
Feb
2012
High art for the masses

3 days ago by Janet E Davis

Often, I would be one of the first to defend the right of public cultural institutions to charge for special exhibitions, or even a modest cost for entry (provided there are appropriate exceptions and concessions). They need to have money to open to the public, and temporary exhibitions of work most ...

Janet E Davis - The Blog - janetedavis.wordpress.com

29
Jan
2012
Why talk of the Renaissance can invoke instant slumber in me.

13 days ago by jerrychicken

I’m not sure why we had gone to London that day, it was Miss Harlow’s A Level art group, me and Rick Thorpe and 15 or 20 girls on a bus, or was it a train, the memory grows thin and faded, like trying to view way into the distance on a misty day, looking [...]

Jerrychicken - The Diary - jerrychicken.wordpress.com

30
Dec
2011
History of Art(1)- Russian Popular Creation

44 days ago by TZARUL NICOLAI

This art album acquaints the reader with a small part of Russian popular creations.The Russian forests, stretching along great expanses of the country, have served man since ancient times: they have given him shelter and food, defended him from enemies; everything necessary was made of wood. Being s ...

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28
Dec
2011
History of Art:Helen Galloway McNicoll (1879-1915)

46 days ago

Helen Galloway McNicoll (1879-1915) was a Canadian impressionist painter. Born in Toronto, she became deaf in childhood as the result of scarlet fever. She attended the Art Association of Montreal, studying under William Brymner from 1899. In 1902 she moved to England to study in London at the Slade ...

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22
Dec
2011
Selecting a colour palette for painting.

51 days ago by Harry Robertson

Contemporary, portrait, landscape, painting, best, top ten, paintings, oil, artist, artists, painter, gallery, life, figure, graphite, sketch, Snowdonia, drawings, pencil, Art, geometry, composition, Master, Masterpiece, Welsh, Wales. Near Llangollen Oil Painting on board. Size: w22" x h16.5" / w56c ...

Harry Robertson, Artist - harryrobertsonpainter.com

18
Dec
2011
Farewell to Iraq, Remember Camp Ashraf

55 days ago by P. M. Doolan

I suppose we should be celebrating. US troops have justabout finished withdrawing from Iraq. Mission accomplished. Oh, butwhat was the mission again? Oh yes, findand destroy the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Husseinhad hidden away so slyly, those weapons that posed such a thr ...

ThinkShop - pauldoolan.com

16
Dec
2011
Albert Goodwin (4)

57 days ago

Lucerne Watercolour and bodycolour *** Ponte Pietra, Verona-1896 Watercolour Verona *** Certosa-1873 Watercolour and bodycolour Penzance watercolour, bodycolour, pen, and ink on tinted paper *** A Street in Naples-1926 Watercolour, Bodycolour, Pen *** Mont St Michel-1898 Watercolour St. Michael's Mo ...

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History of Art:Charles Conder (5)

58 days ago

Le premier bal,1895 watercolor on silk +++ L'Oiseau bleu,1895 watercolor on silk Colloque sentimentale (Au pays bleu),1895 watercolor on silk Beauvais,1899 watercolor and bodycolor on silk laid on paper Homage a Villon,1894 watercolor on silk stretched onto canvas A Toccata of Galuppi,1900 watercolo ...

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12
Dec
2011
The Nahmad Collection at Zurich's Kunsthaus

61 days ago by P. M. Doolan

If you’ve never heard of the Nahmad Collection, don’t worry, you can be forgiven. After all, although it is one of Europe’s most prestigious private art collections, it is not greatly known, never having been exhibited in public. That is, never until now. The exhibition currently showing at the Kuns ...

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