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Infographic: The Ten Most Expensive Pieces of Art Ever Sold

The cheapest comes in at $72.8 million. Zoinks.READ»

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Photo Art- creative art form for communicating ideas and emotions

Photo art products like photo pillow, photo bag, photo purse and photo blanket succeeded in exhibiting individual’s personality in form of home decors and personalized gifts. READ»

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Gulf of Mexico Spill Inspires Digitally Produced "Oil Paintings"

An unsettling artwork, created using digital images of the ecological disaster.READ»

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Damien Hirst Gets Re-Schooled in Painting

Damien Hirst's upcoming show of figurative paintings, compiled over the past three years, signifies a new turn for the provocative British artist.READ»

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Combed and twisted and builders' scrim for silk painting

Traditional Chinese painting can create a fascinating decorative effect by combing the strips of scrim before they are laid on wet silk. The thicker lines that cross the design were produced by the gathered threads. Except this, ...READ»

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Beauty is actually in the eye of the beholder

VOGUE Magazine has been operating for the ancient century, under the guidance of a small handful of leaders who have reserved the elegant magazine blooming through wars, depressions, and the transition to our advanced electronic age. ...READ»

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Shepard Fairey Fights Back

Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the famous Obama poster image, and who was accused by the AP last week of copyright violation, has now counter-sued pre-emptively sued the AP claiming his use of the image was fair ...READ»

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Here's Why the Banksy Movie Is a Banksy Prank

A new "documentary" directed by the world's most famous street artist is just another of his signature ruses.READ»

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Pay No Attention to the Man Behind This Documentary (Banksy)

How do you make a movie about an anonymous street artist? You don't. Filmmaker Thierry Guetta set out to do so, and apparently had the camera turned back on him.READ»

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How to create silk painting

Silk painting , as an art deco design on silk, needs a very precious way to create it. Among those, developing the use of stencils with silk paints and Art Deco designs have proved to be an excellent way of using this ...READ»

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Breathe new life into treasured memories through photo canvas art

In current trend, there are multiple forms of photo art available in the market like painting, sculpture and many more, but many prefer photo canvas art as a new medium for displaying contemporary artwork and to make best out of their photographs. READ»

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Photo art on canvas is creative idea for personalized gifts and home decors

The combination of Photo art and canvas delivers you stunning piece of artwork and has become first choice among the different forms of photo art that are available in the market. READ»

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Graffiti Goes Commercial

The New York Post reports that McDonald's has enlisted the legendary graffiti team Tats Cru to develop wall murals designed to appeal to urban Latino customers. While it's great to see street artists develop businesses around their ...READ»

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Curiously Curious: The Personal Journals of Ken Carbone

Co-founder of the branding and design shop Carbone Smolan Agency, Ken Carbone, shares his secret to staying creative—journals. Finding inspiration in the personal journals of post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, he has been ...READ»

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Michael Crichton on the Block: Record Haul Expected from "Jurassic Park," "ER" Creator's Collection

Most people know Michael Crichton as the guy who threw over his medical practice after hitting the big time as author with a knack for penning movie-ready novels, first with The Andromeda Strain, then with Jurassic Park and State of ...READ»

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Photo Art- creative art form for communicating ideas and emotions

Photo art products like photo pillow, photo bag, photo purse and photo blanket succeeded in exhibiting individual’s personality in form of home decors and personalized gifts. READ»

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Work/Life: Norman Rockwell...Bad To The Bone?

Ninety-two years ago this week, the Saturday Evening Post ran its very first Norman Rockwell cover.  The painting depicted a boy of around ten or twelve, looking rather disgruntled at having to both wear his Sunday best and ...READ»

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Changing a Company Mindset by Inspiring Employees Through Graffiti

Last month when our newest client SWAGG/Firethorn asked us to change the "vibe" in their office, I had to reach into my Hip Hop/B-Boy backpack and tap into the world of Graffiti as a solution for their needs. What our client wanted was an attitude change in the form of an art project.READ»

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Was Caravaggio the World's First Photographer?

That's what an art preservationist is arguing, based on trace materials found in the Baroque master's canvases. It's been argued that Renaissance painters relied on early pinhole cameras—so called cameras obscura—to ...READ»

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Lorenzo Ghiglieri

My father, Lorenzo Ghiglieri, is an accomplished artist who has generously donated many of his works to charities with which my business is involved. Born in Los Angeles, Ghiglieri studied artists like Rembrandt, Velazquez, and ...READ»

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Jeff Koons Previews His BMW Design

The new car will be the 17th in BMW's fabled "Art Car" series.READ»

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Introduction of silk painting

As a traditional culture of world, Chinese silk paintings  have been more and more valuable. Its precious workmanship and vivid performance make it to be the treasure of the collector. Today painting on silk  is an ...READ»

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FNA gives a World Cup 2010 financial boost to South African traditional women artists

In terms of numbers, more tickets for World Cup 2010, kicking off in South Africa on June 11, have been sold in the United States than in any other country besides South Africa. South African company FNA is using their World Cup success to date to promote an under-supported group of Ndebele women beaders, looking for a win-win outcome.READ»

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If you see one Broadway show this year...

Roundabout Theatre Company, New York's largest nonprofit theater initiative, is to be commended for keeping Disney-laden Broadway interesting in recent years. Although its latest revival, Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, ...READ»

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Photo art on canvas-best art form in photo printing arena

Photo art is a unique art form for these canvas artists to exhibit their creative skills of delivering new generation art work and this form can easily generate revenue for their future projects. READ»