ART & MUSIC

DECEMBER 8, 2009 We love John Lennon and his legacy!

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The 'Early Da Vinci portrait'

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Picasso | Bullfighting

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In Memoriam | Andrew Wyeth

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Museum |Leonardo da Vinci

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Luxury Hotels and Restaurant |5 Stars|

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Painting by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) Adeline Ravoux, 1890.

Oil on fabric; 50.2 x 50.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1958.31.

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Dear John Lennon...Happy Birthday

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Starting Thursday night, some of that art - including a few pieces never seen before - will be put on display at a Manhattan gallery by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.
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VC&A

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Beautiful Judean dessert

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The Dead Sea, Ein Gedi & Judean Wilderness

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Vienna Shows Van Gogh as Draughtsman in EU3 Billion Exhibition

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This is a handout of Vincent van Gogh's reed pen and ink drawing "Portrait of Joseph Roulin," released to the media on Friday, September 5, 2008.

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- ``Van Gogh, Drawn Lines,'' a new exhibition at Vienna's Albertina, promotes itself with a list of superlatives -- the most expensive exhibition ever in Austria and the first Vincent van Gogh show in Vienna for 50 years.
More daring, though, is its claim to shed new light on a painter who must be the world's favorite, if the number of reproductions is a guide. The exhibition, open since Sept. 5, sets out to show Van Gogh as a great draughtsman whose skills with line played a decisive role in the success of his painting.
The Albertina, whose own collection is primarily of sketches, has amassed an array of 140 Van Gogh paintings and drawings from museums and private collectors in 16 countries. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo have loaned so many works, you have to wonder whether they are left with blank walls. The whole show is insured for an inconceivable 3 billion euros ($4.2 billion).
There are cases where the drawing is on show but not the painting to go with it, or vice versa. Still, there are also canvases and drawings that were unfamiliar to me because they are in private collections or far-flung museums such as Detroit or Honolulu. Among those rarely on public view is ``Garden in Auvers,'' painted in the last weeks of the artist's life, an extravagantly dotted canvas with purple and red flowerbeds tilted at odd angles.
Dark Landscapes
The show spans Van Gogh's short career, starting with the early years in the Netherlands, where he focused on depicting peasant life and dark landscapes in charcoal drawings and oils with the kind of muted colors typical of the old Dutch masters.
It then breaks out in a burst of color, the period when Van Gogh went to Paris and first encountered the work of the impressionists. He realized that his own palette was old-fashioned and conventional in comparison with this vibrant new style. Perhaps the best-known painting on display from that era is his self-portrait in a straw hat.
The last rooms cover the wheatfields, cypresses and olive groves of his two years in Provence, where he suffered increasing sickness and insanity, eventually leading to his suicide in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, in 1890 at the age of 37.
Van Gogh first went to Provence in search of the brilliant light and landscape of Japan. He was a big admirer of Japanese colored woodcuts, which are the inspiration for the dots, dashes and squiggles of his drawings. The magical reed pen-and-ink drawing of ``Boats at Sea'' (1888) is comprised of meticulous spots, swirls and curved short lines in varying shades.
Windswept Wheatfield
Reed pen-and-ink drawings like this and ``The Sower'' (1888) were created from the painting he had produced earlier, proof that Van Gogh valued his drawings in their own right, not merely as templates for a painting. Painted during a fierce mistral, ``The Sower'' shows a brilliant sun above a windswept wheatfield.
The drawing Van Gogh produced for Theo has, if anything, more drama and intensity than the painting, even without the penetrating colors. The sun is bigger in the sky, the lines of the wildly disheveled field more heavily accentuated, and the sower himself looks more purposeful.
Where the exhibition at the Albertina works best is in showing that each line of Van Gogh's, whether in the drawings or paintings, was disciplined, exact and planned.
Seeing the two juxtaposed, it becomes clear that no matter how thick his paint, how intense his colors or how tumultuous and fizzing with wild energy his fields and skies can be, Van Gogh's bold brushstrokes are not the product of uncontrolled madness. The precision of his drawing is there in his paintings, too.
His creeping mental illness may have affected his way of perceiving the world, but in no way did it impair his control over the meticulous execution of his work.
Anyone planning a special trip to Vienna to see the Van Gogh exhibition may want to wait until October, when a show that promises to be equally worth the journey opens at the Belvedere. ``Gustav Klimt und die Kunstschau 1908,'' an exhibition that partially reconstructs Klimt's show 100 years later, opens on Oct. 1.
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TOP Museum in the world

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1. Musee du Louvre, Paris
2.Vatican Museum
3.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MATISSE

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Apples

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Lily of Peace

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Yayoi Kusama (B. 1929)

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Christies Auction

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Congratulations Israel---Paul McCartney will play on September 25, 2008. I wish him well and the band.

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des caresses et des baisers!

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Michelangelo 'hid secret code in Sistine Chapel'

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Sir Paul McCartney Paintings

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Diego Velasquez Painter

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Portrait of Philip IV, 1632

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656)Read more on wiki...Spanish Painter

Back on display

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See---VIDEO

"It was a challenge because we didn't know anything about what these two
paintings had been through." Mette Havrevold Restoration expert.

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Dallas Arboretum

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Texas Root Beer Bandits

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This photo was taken at the Dallas Arboretum [Botanical Garden]on April 25, 2008.
I use Adobe Illustrator 10.1 and Photoshop 6.0

Art Works

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It has been scientifically proven that artworks— paintings, drawings or sculptures — just like diamonds, gold, luxury automobiles and other extravagant items, are more desirable if they have bigger price tags attached to them.” Read more...

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Artist James Hyman

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Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata mvt. 3

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Van Cliburn

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Van Cliburne Foundation
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 7:30pm @ Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas.

Intrigue -that makes it glorious, isn't it?

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Fake Arts Sold at eBay - A Scam!

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Matisse

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Women of all time

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NELLIE'S 2008

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Unfinished Symphony#5

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Oh, yeah! I'm not through painting. I ran out of paints! Crud!

Pink Marble Sculpture

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Van Gogh, Monet art goes in $163M heist

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Source: CNN

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Forged Art on eBay

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Man accused of selling at least $300K worth of forged art on Ebay
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 02/06/2008 02:55:20 AM PST

IRVINE, Calif.—Police have arrested a 42-year-old man who they say made at least $300,000 auctioning off art forgeries on eBay.

Forty-two-year-old Vincent Lopreto is accused of selling imitations of works by English artist Damien Hirst that would be worth up to $20,000 apiece if authentic.

Lt. Rick Handfield said detectives have confirmed $300,000 in sales of bogus works by Lopreto, but they suspect he has bilked many more online customers, giving them fraudulent certificates of authenticity along with the fake art.

Lopreto was booked at the Orange County Jail on Tuesday and held in lieu of $350,000 bail.

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NPR NEWS

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Family claims back van gogh notebook

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'Van Gogh notebook'

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A leading historian and travel writer

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Van Gogh Autumn Landscape

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Contemporary Art

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Sotheby's Sales Rise 46% to $5.33 Billion on Contemporary Art
By Linda Sandler

Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's, the world's
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Renoir

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a9AgwdUvIg68&refer=muse

Nativity-Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684)

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Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684) was a Spanish-born, Portuguese painter from the seventeenth century. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as, "Josefa em Óbidos" or, "Josefa de Ayalla". She is one of the relatively few female European painters known to have been active in the Baroque era. All of her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four.
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Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684) A Portuguese painter

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Christmas Day is the birth of Jesus in a manger.

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I was in Bethlehem in 1982 in front of a manger.

Reubens Adoration- 17th Century- Baroque

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The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[citation needed] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the Baroque cultural movement[citation needed] as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns. Some traits and aspects of Baroque paintings that differentiate this style from others are the abundant amount of details, often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of subjects, and an overall sense of awe, which was one of the goals in Baroque art. Read more...

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Nativity

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PIERO della Francesca
about 1415/20 - 1492
Nativity

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

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Vermeers Camera Obscura

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Jan Vermeer van Delft

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Monday, December 3, 2007

God Bless You All!

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Gibson Robot Guitar Revolution

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stainless steel heart

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A Jeff Koons sculpture of a stainless steel heart hanging from a golden bow sold Wednesday for $23.6 million (¤16.05 million), setting an auction record for a work by a living artist, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said.
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...nuance gives way to shock

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The other enormous prices paid in that same Sotheby's sale show that for the moment, demand is as strong as ever. But should the auction houses persist in their deadly competition for supremacy, by hiking estimates indefinitely, they might cause the entire market to tumble like a house of cards.

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Poppies

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BBC Remembrance Sunday Poppy

Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.

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November 07, 2007
A painting by a impressionist master fetched a record price at Christie's auction house in Midtown yesterday.

An oil on canvas work by Henri Matisse sold at Christie's for $33.6 million – the highest price ever paid for a Matisse.

Painted in 1937, the work was purchased by an unidentified buyer. The previous record for a Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.

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This is horrible! Russians are ignorant about impressionists like Renoir, Matisse & Picasso? How dreadsful?

bloomberg.com Picasso, Renoir, Matisse Paintings Impounded at Moscow Airport
By: John Varoli

Sotheby's in New York

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A major sale of impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's in New York late on Wednesday fell far short of expectations, with works by several major artists failing to find buyers.

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DailyMailUK

http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?lang=nl

‘I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun,’ Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 21 June 1888. That summer he devoted many paintings to the same subject. The waving grain gave him an opportunity to experiment with color and technique. Here he juxtaposed the golden yellow of the ripe wheat with a colorful swirl of yellow, green, red, brown and black in the foreground. The very high placing of the horizon means that nearly the whole canvas is covered with the colors of the growing crops. Visible in the distance are the low mountains of the Alpilles range. VanGogh

Art Institute of Texas

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RENOVATION LOAN 92 paintings -- by Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh -- will spend months in Ft. Worth

Pierre Auguste Renoir, French, 1841-1919; Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881, Oil on canvas, 39 9/16 x 37 7/8 in. (100.5 x 81 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. (Courtesy)

Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903; Why Are You Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri), 1896, Oil on canvas, 37 1/2 x 51 3/8 in. (95.3 x 130.55 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection.

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890; The Bedroom, 1889, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 in. (73.6 x 92.3 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Masterpieces

Works by Gauguin, van Gogh on N.Y. auction block

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Digital

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Cedrus Libani

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Sunflower

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Green Dragon

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Columbia Jay

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New-York Historical Society Edition.

Texas

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Washingtonpost.com

International Arts Festival opens in Shanghai

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/19/content_6906771.htm

$1.5m and you only get the bottle

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Expensive bottle of cognac- Diamond Bottle Silver & Gold

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Bottle of Cognac

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DaVinci Chalice

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Nerval

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'Oldest' wall painting

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Vincent letters to Emile Bernard [manuscript]

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“Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh’s Letters to Émile Bernard” at the Morgan Library & Museum, a display of manuscripts, also includes nearly two dozen paintings and drawings, half of them by van Gogh, including a splendid self-portrait.
It was done before he moved south. With his red hair and beard, taciturn lips and untrusting eyes, you already know him on sight. And you will come to know him in some depth in a show that is itself a self-portrait in many parts.
— Holland Cotter

Vincent van Gogh wrote some 800 letters in his lifetime. This letter was written on March 18, 1888 to Emile Bernard, whom he treated as a younger brother and mentee.

Olive Trees

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"Self Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right, Paris" (1887)

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Link to: Lady Lever Art Gallery

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Vase and lid
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), c. 1780 – 1830
Jade (nephrite), 35.6 x 23 x 8.5cm
Accession Number LL70

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/chinaart.asp