Taxpayers will have to cough up the cash since the state declined to acquire the works for public collections (via The Art Newspaper. By Belén Palanco. Published online: 22 January 2015} Francisco de Goya’s Tobias and the angel, around 1787, Museo del Prado The Spanish Government did not accept any art in lieu of tax in…
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9 things you didn’t know about Wassily Kandinsky
December 16th was the birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, a man whose abstract art made history in the 20th century and whose name continues to stump English speakers long after his death. In honor of Vah-SEEL-ee Kahn-DIN-skee’s big day, Katherine Brooks of The Huntington Post collected some of the more interesting facts from his…
cleaning the white horse
John Constable (1776–1837) created landscapes that ranged from sketches with broad, loose strokes to highly polished and tightly rendered finished paintings. He would often arbitrarily end the painting process at any degree of finish in between. The four-by-six-foot painting The White Horse (1819), part of the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art, seemed…
dulwich picture gallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake
London gallery will hang replica by Chinese studio alongside genuine Old Masters and ask public to guess odd one out {via The Guardian, Maev Kennedy, Monday 12 January 2015} The Dulwich picture gallery is to set the public, and any art critics with the nerve, a potentially mortifying challenge. A £120 replica of a priceless painting,…
flesh of inspiration: reassessing rubens
In BBC Two documentary Rubens: An Extra Large Story, WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK sets out to correct the misconceptions that have arisen about the artist, whose vast and grandiose canvases seem too much for modern sensibilities. Here Waldemar writes for BBC Arts about making the show, and presents two exclusive clips on Rubens and his art, along…
why bill gates is commissioning fine art
Each year, about 6 million people die from diseases that are preventable with vaccines. And about 1 in 5 children around the world don’t have access to life-saving vaccines. But those are cold and dry statistics. {article by Susan Brink, NPR} The Art of Saving A Life enlisted more than 30 artists to create images…
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