Lara
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Jayne Kim of Ink Dwell Studio
Art, anything goes...
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Lara
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Cincinnati Zoo...
Lewkat
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Just a few more of this fellow's hand art.
RadishRose
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Oh my, this is gasp-worthy!
RadishRose
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mellowyellow
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Little girl reacts to Sir John Lavery’s Pavlova
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
Oil on canvas
By Sir John Lavery
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
Oil on canvas
By Sir John Lavery
mellowyellow
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A life drawing class on the set of Opera Australia’s Tosca at Sydney Opera House. Photograph: Jenny Evans/Getty
JonDouglas
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Another piece of my art work - a lidded vessel made from different types of wood.
Lara
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mellowyellow
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Dresden, Germany
Visitors look at the Old Masters in the Gemaeldegalerie. Museums have been reopening under strict hygiene conditions
Photograph: Robert Michael/AP
Meanderer
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The back panel of the Mona Lisa
Therefore, countermeasures are taken to prevent warp of the panel from progressing due to support by oak material and air conditioning management.
Regarding cracks, a clear rift which is clearly visible from the front also runs vertically on the head of Mona Lisa. For that part, parts of the butterfly type wood are fitted in two places from the back, so that the split will not go any further.
The image below is the state without the oak material attached for panel reinforcement. The back side of the panel has been slightly reduced in thickness in the past.
The panel always tends to warp backward.Therefore, countermeasures are taken to prevent warp of the panel from progressing due to support by oak material and air conditioning management.
Regarding cracks, a clear rift which is clearly visible from the front also runs vertically on the head of Mona Lisa. For that part, parts of the butterfly type wood are fitted in two places from the back, so that the split will not go any further.
The image below is the state without the oak material attached for panel reinforcement. The back side of the panel has been slightly reduced in thickness in the past.
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mellowyellow
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Staff at Christie's auction house prepare to present a painting entitled Femme nue couchée au collier, by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, at Christie's auction house, London. The painting is expected to fetch €10-€15 million at an auction scheduled for March 23rd. Photograph: Andy Rrain/EPA
mellowyellow
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Picasso hated women
"Women," Pablo Picasso once proclaimed, "are machines for suffering." Throughout his lifetime, he did his best to prove that true. Compulsively unfaithful, Picasso collected models, slept with them, and brutalized them, alternating icy control — he demanded submissiveness in all things, and warned one woman, Francoise Gilot, that as far as he was concerned, women were "either goddesses or doormats" — with horrific physical violence. Picasso pinned Gilot to a bridge railing and threatened to throw her into the river for seeming "ungrateful;" when she tried to leave, he held a lit cigarette to her cheek to brand her. He forced Dora Maar to physically fight Marie-Therese Walter, the mother of his child, for his affections — he stayed in the room throughout the brawl, painting — and beat Maar into unconsciousness himself on at least one occasion.............
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41293/bertolucci-abuse-art/
What a charming a***hole
"Women," Pablo Picasso once proclaimed, "are machines for suffering." Throughout his lifetime, he did his best to prove that true. Compulsively unfaithful, Picasso collected models, slept with them, and brutalized them, alternating icy control — he demanded submissiveness in all things, and warned one woman, Francoise Gilot, that as far as he was concerned, women were "either goddesses or doormats" — with horrific physical violence. Picasso pinned Gilot to a bridge railing and threatened to throw her into the river for seeming "ungrateful;" when she tried to leave, he held a lit cigarette to her cheek to brand her. He forced Dora Maar to physically fight Marie-Therese Walter, the mother of his child, for his affections — he stayed in the room throughout the brawl, painting — and beat Maar into unconsciousness himself on at least one occasion.............
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41293/bertolucci-abuse-art/
What a charming a***hole
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JonDouglas
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I remember reading something like this somewhere, remembering it because I agree with it.
Picasso was a self-aggrandizing asshole of little talent but capable of massive production, which isn't hard to do when you have no quality standards and drink a lot.
mellowyellow
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France is to give back a landscape by Gustav Klimt in its national collection to the heirs of the Jewish family who were forced to sell it by the Nazis more than 80 years ago.
Rosiers sous les Arbres (Rosebushes under the Trees), a 1905 oil painting by the Austrian artist, has been hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for decades. It is the only Klimt in France’s national collection.
