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History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Two) 2007-06-23 23:38:53 The flourishing of Athens as a cultural centre is attested to by the great quantity and high quality of painted vases produced in Attica (the name given to Athens and its surrounding area) from the late seventh century until around 480 B.C., known as the Archaic period in Greek art. Archaic [...] Read more:History
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22.Jun.2007 : The Rising Price of Art 2007-06-21 23:37:18 A series of London auctions featuring paintings by Lucian Freud, Claude Monet and Joan Miro netted the biggest-ever sum for a week of art sales in Europe, auctioneers Christie’s said today.
The sales earned a total of £237 million ($561.41 million) and featured 23 new artist records.
Highlights included French Impressionist Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, which sold for [...] Read more:Rising
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part One) 2007-06-17 02:05:44 Around 1100 B.C. invaders from northwest of the Balkan Mountains entered what is today the Greek mainland, the islands of the Aegean and Asia Minor, the western part of Turkey. These invaders mixed with the Bronze Age peoples already inhabiting these areas, forming the civilization of ancient Greece
. Organized into city-states, [...] Read more:History
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History of Western Paintings - IV - Minoan Art (Part Two) 2007-06-09 23:28:13 Bull Jumping (”Toreador Fresco”). c.1450 B.C.
Wall painting from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete. Height: approx. 24.5″ (62cm). Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete
Minoan
religious practices remain somewhat obscure. This enigmatic scene may be a religious ritual in which male and female participants (females are fair-skinned, as in Egyptian art, indicating their sheltered lives out of the sun) [...] Read more:History
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History of Western Paintings - IV - Minoan Art (Part One) 2007-06-03 02:01:44 The flowering of the Minoan
civilization, centred on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, coincided with the New Kingdom in Egypt and the Babylonian period of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia. “Minoan” comes from the name “Minos” the king of Crete in Greek mythology who provided the human-flesh-eating Minotaur, a [...] Read more:History
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29.May.2007 : Chinese Art Increasing in Popularity 2007-05-29 03:13:50 Prices for works by contemporary and avant-garde Chinese
artists hit record highs at Christie’s spring auctions in Hong Kong on Sunday, in a sign of sustained strong demand. Yue Minjun - known for his paintings of absurd, grinning faces - saw his “Portrait of the artist and his friends” fetch HK$20.48 million [...] Read more:Increasing
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History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part Three) 2007-05-27 02:21:11 The discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922 by Howard Carter, a British archaeologist, resulted in some of the most important contributions to our understanding of the ancient Egypt
ians’ civilisation in general and their burial practices in particular. This is especially true since the tomb was found almost intact, [...] Read more:History
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History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part Two) 2007-05-20 02:09:29 Two-dimensional depictions of royal figures in Egypt
ian art had long been standardised. Typically, pharaohs, queens and members of their families and courts are shown with heads, hips, legs, and feet in profile, while their torsos and eyes are depicted as if viewed from the front, like Mesopotamian depictions of the human [...] Read more:History
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17.May.2007 : Andy Warhol’s Rising Value 2007-05-17 02:39:26 Andy Warhol
’s acid-green painting of a gruesome car wreck sold for $71.7 million last night, as Christie’s International sped past rival Sotheby’s to chalk up the biggest-ever auction of postwar and contemporary art. The sale in New York raised $384.7 million, beating the previous high set on Tuesday at Sotheby’s by more than 50 percent, [...] Read more:Rising
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History of Western Paintings - III - Ancient Egypt (Part One) 2007-05-13 01:59:43 The civilisation of ancient Egypt
was roughly contemporary with the neighbouring cultures in the ancient Near East. While the Mesopotamians were constantly subjected to enemy attacks, however, the fruitful Nile Valley was surrounded by desert and thus not easily reached by invading forces. Furthermore, unlike the politically unstable city-states of [...] Read more:History
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History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Three) 2007-06-30 23:51:27 Hyria with Women at the Fountain. 530 B.C.
Vulci, Museo di Villa Giulia, Rome
Non-mythological subjects also appear on vases. In one example, a group of women at a fountain appropriately decorates a hydria, or water jug. Several vases have images relating to the Panathenaic games, festivals held in Athens similar to the Olympic [...] Read more:History
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Where Can I find A Picture Of Mona Lisa? 2007-07-06 07:03:10 We may never know all of the Mona Lisa
’s secrets, but surely the history of the painting and it’s worldly travels has only helped in making the image so sought after.
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Where Can I find A Picture Of Mona Lisa? 2007-07-06 03:54:32 We may never know all of the Mona Lisa
’s secrets, but surely the history of the painting and it’s worldly travels has only helped in making the image so sought after.
The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci
Asking “What country is the Mona Lisa in?” or “Where is the Mona Lisa located?” does not do [...] Read more:Picture
Da Vinci Introduction 2007-07-03 23:11:01 As we start to crank this “blog” up to 5 articles a week, coming up first will be a complete coverage of Da Vinci
’s paintings. We will start with the most famous painting of them all, the Mona Lisa. We already have over 7000 words written about this mysterious woman, so be sure to keep [...] Read more:Introduction
The Day After Tomorrow? 2007-07-09 05:23:49 This is the result of high winds blowing water from a lake in Geneva during freezing conditions, causing the water spray to freeze almost instantly. “All the best art is found in nature” as they say.
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Four) 2007-07-08 00:02:56 The human form in art was infused with realism; the musculature was carefully modelled, movement was implied and drapery fell naturally over the body. This realism encompassed an ideal of humanity that resulted in dignified, confident, emotionally restrained, and rational expressions and postures. Painting at this time also reached [...] Read more:History
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Who was the Most crazy, Van Gogh or Munch? 2007-07-13 13:30:49 Both of these artists were known to suffer from mental illness. Munch had what is now believed to be bi-polar disorder. Van Gogh
suffered from paranoia, and possibly a myriad of other mental ailments, including epilepsy and absynth addiction, that the psychiatric community still debates. It is clear that they both suffered in [...]
Was Mona Lisa a Real Person? 2007-07-17 04:20:39 The Mona Lisa was originally identified as Lisa Gherardini as early as the mid 16th century when Vasari put together his biography of Leonardo Da Vinci and described the Mona Lisa. Everyone was intrigued to know “who was the model” for the Mona Lisa and in Gherardini, she was believed to be found.
Leonardo Da Vinci [...]
Political Flags 2007-07-16 06:04:29 Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine [...]
History of Western Paintings - V - Ancient Greece (Part Five) 2007-07-15 00:04:36 The Greeks colonized southern Italy, where they were in contact with the indigenous Etruscan culture. An ancient Greek wall painting from the so-called “Tomb of the Diver” in Paestum, Italy, probably reveals Etruscan influences. The dive taken by the figure could be interpreted as the passage of the deceased into the [...] Read more:History
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The Official Stamp on the Mona Lisa 2007-07-18 04:52:02 The painting commonly known as the Mona Lisa was painted between 1503 and 1506 in Florence, Italy, by Leonardo da Vinci. It is painted in oils on a panel of poplar wood. This painting may well be considered the most famous in the world. The subject’s smile– variously described as enigmatic, serene, [...] Read more:Official
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18.Jul.2007 : Damien Hirst’s Fortunes Double 2007-07-17 22:01:45 Damien Hirst
, whose London show closed this month without a sale of his diamond skull, has found buyers for £130 million ($265 million) of art at the White Cube galleries, said exhibitions director Tim Marlow. A split shark fetched £10 million, “three crucified sheep sold for 6 million pounds, and talks to sell the [...] Read more:Damien
Microscopic Lord’s Prayer 2007-07-23 02:33:41 We have all heard about magnificent carvings that prisoners have made in jail from things such as bone, teeth and wood. But convicted forger A. Schiller who was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800s, took it one step further. When his guards found him dead in his cell, on his [...] Read more:Microscopic
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Children’s Imagination Given a Professional Touch 2007-07-27 07:39:34 We all know that children have an amazing imagination, and often their drawings need long explanations for adults to understand them. But a group of artists took some children’s drawing as concepts and then turned these into professional paintings. The results are quite interesting… Read more:Children
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Analysis of the Mona Lisa 2007-08-16 07:31:35 Analysis of the Mona Lisa Painting
Leonardo Da Vinci was born and raised in Italy where the Mona Lisa was ultimately painted started in 1503. The style of the painting has long been cited as the forerunner of numerous styles of art, one of the true masterpieces in the history of world art.
Leonardo Da Vinci : [...] Read more:Analysis
Looking at a Picture of the Mona Lisa 2007-08-15 07:30:56 In the halls of the Louvre in France, a painting of Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysteriously enigmatic masterpiece, sits as a centerpiece of Renaissance Artwork. The source of her enigmatic smile, the setting of her stationed pose and the question of what Da Vinci might have originally intended have all been long standing questions [...] Read more:Picture
Is Imitation Flatery or Forgery? 2007-09-05 07:59:31 The answer to this question is not cut and dried. Looking back through history, it was common for artists to copy not only the work of others, but their own work as well. Think about it. How else would someone obtain a copy of a painting he liked other than asking he [...] Read more:Imitation
Features of the Mona Lisa (Beyond the Smile) 2007-11-13 09:08:33 The details of the Mona Lisa style utilized by Leonardo have enthralled and confused historians for centuries. Some of the smallest details have become some of art’s biggest mysteries. Beyond the smile, there are many other aspects deserving of more attention in their relation to the power of the overall painting.
Details of the Mona Lisa [...] Read more:Smile
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci 2007-11-12 09:08:24 The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo
Da Vinci
is not only one of the most important paintings ever created, it was one of the most important to Leonardo himself, a work he spent more than four years on and carried with him everywhere he went for the remainder of his life. The Importance of the Mona [...]
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