a portrait
I think it was my son-in-law, Sam, who told me that anyone can write for Wikipedia. I don’t know if that’s true, but if so, some someone wrote this definition of the word “portrait”: “A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person [more...]
Date: 2008-02-20 11:38:27
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Changing Portraits on Hubpages
clipped by: laniersclipper's remarks: Amazing changing portraits from Haunted Portraits artist Norm Lanier ... of morphing antique photos and paintings change as you pass. The portraits go from normal [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 05:20:18
Blog: Original Signal - Trans...
Classical Painting Boring? Nah…
by Lisa On Sunday, at the California Art Institute, The Portrait Society of America sponsored a presentation of portrait artist Adrian Gottlieb ... his hair out. He is a classically trained artist having studied at the Florence Academy of Art. Whoa ... , they are really beautiful. It’s a shame that the paintings do not show better from reproductions [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 15:00:25
Blog: On Painting...
quick London recap
My camera battery died and I've left the charger at home, so photos from the 02 Center, home of the Spice Girls concert, will have to wait ... of the week, I plan to check out pop art portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, see the Louise ... at Babeland and Sex 2.0 in Atlanta in April being the others); I am hoping to start doing that more often [more...]
Date: 2008-01-03 02:08:10
Blog: LUSTY LADY...
2 faces done
2 faces done I've got the next 2 faces finished and ready for their bodies to be sculpted ... that are on the list will be my last ones to get a portrait sculpture. They are extremely difficult. I will still take ... the same thing. Which that could be one reason it is rare to find a portrait sculptor! I have enjoyed [more...]
Date: 2008-02-19 07:35:36
Blog: ooak baby sculptures by...
Clark, John Stewart - portrait of John Tweed
Although this is quite a large miniature portrait on ivory at 122mm x 90mm and of a "boring old man" instead of a "pretty young lady", ... , who, despite being born in Glasgow, Scotland, is described as "the English Rodin" by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, see Other Sculptures by Rodin in the V&A - Victoria and Albert [more...]
Date: 2008-01-31 07:33:38
Blog: British Miniature Portr...
About Face Exhibition
About Face opens this Friday at Alan Avery Art Company (formerly Trinity Gallery) commemorating 25 years in Atlanta. The opening is from 7-10. Hope to see some of you there. Several artists from the gallery were asked to do portraits of the gallery's top clients. The portraits are 30"X30". I have two in the show. I don't [more...]
Date: 2008-02-11 16:59:34
Blog: Bryce Hammond Art...
Portrait of Antarctica
Portrait of Antarctica February 21st, 2008 ... to find ways we can connect with this place. 1C I am researching how the profound connections ... that being in Antarctica is a life-changing experience. 4A Here, we can find space to reflect [more...]
Date: 2008-02-21 22:24:43
Blog: www.antarcticanimation....
A Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Many of you may have stopped by the Portrait Gallery to catch a glimpse of Stephen Colbert’s aptly ... horseshoe player, appearing much like a Giacometti sculpture. Multimedia is featured throughout [more...]
Date: 2008-01-26 06:00:19
Blog: DCist: ...
The 2008 Lincoln Award
Authors to share Lincoln award February 16, ... award along with a bronze cast of Augustus St. Gaudens' larger-than-life portrait sculpture of Abraham ... of Antislavery Politics" (W.W. Norton) and Elizabeth Brown Pryor for "Reading the Man: A Portrait [more...]
Date: 2008-02-18 13:09:06
Blog: The Dispatch Depot at C...
Portrait at DC Children’s Hospital honors Sean Taylor
We received word that D.C. area artist Jason Swain completed a large portrait of former Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor that was unveiled ... to be donated to the foundation established for the benefit of Taylor’s daughter. Prints will be available [more...]
Date: 2008-02-25 05:12:49
Blog: Hog Heaven | MVN - Most...
Self-Portrait as Samurai oil 24.1 x 16.5 cm (9.5" x 6.5") This is another experimental self-portrait ... artists such as Picasso, to draw attention to certain aspects of a drawing, painting, or sculpture [more...]
Date: 2008-01-29 17:59:05
Blog: small drawings...
The Unicorn
Talking to mommy one day she told me about a wonderful ballroom she had run across in her travels and asked me to take a look, ... and her Portrait has been laid down on the ground of the ballroom. She has been burried in her crypt not far away ... . And indeed, as I went back the next time.. it seemed to me, that the sculpture wasn't anymore [more...]
Date: 2008-02-20 21:37:19
Blog: The Secondlife Newspape...
Best in show
By Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery and a vice-president of the Museums Association (THE GUARDIAN, 25/02/08): For many years the first priority of the museum director was an overriding concern to protect the objects in a collection from theft or loss: ensuring that they would survive for future generations [more...]
Date: 2008-02-25 20:09:21
Blog: Tribuna Libre ...
Portraits, Leith, Cyprus and India
Time marches on. It is now nearly the end of term 2 at Edinburgh College of Art and I am sitting at home, having taken a few days off with a bad bug ... . When I was painting in Hastings, I was just so pleased to be making any art at all, that every scrap ... by trying to find the right balance between making art and facilitating education. So, now I find [more...]
Date: 2008-02-21 11:50:51
Blog: Roblog...
Happy Accident
At times it happens that while painting a picture artists come to a block, whether if it's for aesthetic or technical reasons. In my experience it happens frequently, but not quite like one particular painting, a portrait ... I would be mixing it with Unbleached Titanium, a very stiff paint. But the umber had too high an oil [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 05:43:47
Blog: Luis Colan...
Wanna go to a DC opening on Thursday? How about the National Society of Arts and Letters’ 2007 arts competition? ... exhibitor at the gallery, won this year’s $10,000 national first prize for her watercolor “Portrait ... was established in 1944 as a non-profit, philanthropic, volunteer organization of art professionals, art [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 16:13:41
Blog: Daily Campello Art News...
art is cool continued
more of my favorite pieces (i am really learning to appreciate sculpture so much more now that i am taking this class). the first sculpture is a flavian woman and her curls are done with a drill in marble! impressive. the middle portrait with teh older looking man is done in the veristic (or extreme realism) style [more...]
Date: 2008-02-25 21:32:02
Blog: the divine ms. m...
V&A Audio
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has provided online access to audio files made for the British Galleries ... on the portrait of Francis Williams. There are also talks on the rivalry between Robert Adam and Williams Chambers; on early nineteenth century opinions on the statue of the Three Graces; on the sculpture [more...]
Date: 2008-02-20 12:18:48
Blog: Glasgow School of Art L...
Western Quarters
A main route south from the Campo dei Miracoli is Via Santa Maria , which starts out clogged with touristy shops ... ), displaying painting, sculpture and furniture belonging to the Medici, Lorraine and Savoy dynasties which ... s famous portrait of Cosimo I’s wife, Eleanor of Toledo. Just as memorable, however, is the lovely [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 06:05:14
Blog: Italy Travel And Hotel ...
St. Petersburg displays Vatican relics
It's not often the Vatican goes on a road show. When you're one of the planet's foremost cultural and religious institutions, ... this month at Florida International Museum, brings some of the Catholic Church's most exquisite items ... , and portraits, statues and papal vestments are among the roughly 200 items on display. So, too [more...]
Date: 2008-02-16 20:06:37
Blog: Clerical Whispers...
Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander,
In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance portraits, to contemporary films and fashion photography. First published ahead of its time, this book has become a classic. [more...]
Date: 2008-02-23 23:34:18
Blog: Bunches of Specials...
Devorah Sperber
Casting about for pictures to illustrate the last chapter of my dissertation, ... of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Of course, we still go to museums — but more often ... I came across artist Devorah Sperber’s brilliant take on the famous Picasso portrait of Gertrude [more...]
Date: 2008-02-20 03:31:39
Blog: The Next in Line...
Wedding Expo 2007
Enderle Center Presents Wedding Expo 2008 Wednesday through Saturday March 5th - March 8th 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m ... , etchings, watercolor paintings, ceramic art and hand blown glassware to choose from. We also offer ... . at 16 participating merchants Treasured Occassions Frame your wedding portrait or Ketubah Art [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 01:31:00
Blog: CHEMERS GALLERY...
dna11: file under supercool
Filed under: Emerging Science and Technology, Creativity February 14th, 2008 by Amie @ MaRS DNA art: ... is where art and science converge to bring custom portraits of your DNA fingerprint to your living room ... scheme, framing etc., you get a swanky swab kit in the mail to get collect your sample. Send [more...]
Date: 2008-02-14 12:04:02
Blog: MaRS Blog - Innovation ...
Recognize opens at the National Portrait Gallery this Friday, February 8th ... in poses from Maoist propaganda posters--in paintings generated by a crew of Chinese art students ... at the AAC. Also featured are paintings by Kehinde Wiley, and three videos by my friend and former [more...]
Date: 2008-02-07 12:22:11
Blog: hatchets and skewers...
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Date: 2008-02-26 12:43:20
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Date: 2008-02-28 15:15:42
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A ‘taste’ of Vatican art, relics on display in 3-city US tour
A ‘taste’ of Vatican art, relics on display in 3-city US tour Posted on February 17, ... opened this month at Florida International Museum, brings some of the Catholic Church’s most exquisite ... , a compass supposedly used by Michelangelo, and portraits, statues and papal vestments are among the roughly [more...]
Date: 2008-02-17 19:15:34
Blog: Mosaic Art and Glass A...
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Date: 2008-02-28 11:47:20
Blog: Rachzee on deviantART...
African-American Art Auction @ New York's Swann Galleries
Aaron Douglass' "Emperor Jones" Today, Swann Galleries in New York expects to rake in as much as $5 ... and this year Catlett's terracotta sculpture "Torso, Portrait of Joan" is estimated to sell between ... . Todays auction will offer 250 paintings, drawings, collages, prints and sculpture from notable [more...]
Date: 2008-02-19 19:04:00
Blog: Society Noir...
TED@Aspen... Chris Jordan, Artist
Chris Jordan just finished his talk. Great presentation of his art, thinking and passion. Inspirational. He spoke from his recent work: Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 00:56:58
Blog: Silicon Moon...
Design history - classicism.
Continuing the tradition of Renaissance classicism was also a kind of antithesis, as well as the loss of Renaissance harmony, ... of genres - from “high” (historical, mythological, religious) to “low” or “small” (landscape, portrait [more...]
Date: 2008-02-18 22:54:23
Blog: Home design advisor...
WEEK 13 – Pan American Stewardess
Barbie Portrait Number Thirteen ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH One of the things that has surprised me about photographing these dolls is the memories ... of stewardesses of that era. Limited Edition framed photographs, Matted prints and Note Cards are available [more...]
Date: 2008-01-20 16:10:31
Blog: The Barbie Doll Portrai...
“The Address” by Bani Abidi. In the tradition of trompe loiel paintings used as backdrops in Portrait studios, Bani Abidi commissioned a background painting resembling the set used for televised Presidential speeches [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 09:18:00
Blog: VVORK...
A Letter to Michael Murphy
Barack Obama-detail, 2008 Wood, Paint, Steel & Light Portrait of the presidential candidate rendered with the shadows cast by 6,400 2" nails ... or not this is a drawing. Is it a sculpture? Does it display too many qualities of both categories to be sufficiently [more...]
Date: 2008-02-22 04:06:00
Blog: busted up bulldozers...
Exploring the Term “Relic” - Definition, News & Application
I was sniffing around online for some good treasure stories (nothing new there, folks) and I found several articles concerning relics ... by Michaelangelo and over 150 portraits, statues and papal vestments. Check out the entire article [more...]
Date: 2008-02-15 20:00:31
Blog: Treasure Hunting - A Me...
Snapshot
Snapshot February 25th, 2008 by Lisa My great-aunt sends me a birthday card every single year ... . Like him, I’m drawn to natural and un-posed portraits. It seems more honest and genuine that way. I love [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 03:51:15
Blog: Fleur de Lisa ...
This is what Helio looked like before there was a Helio
Just what did Helio look like when it was still in its formative years, ... display for framing the perfect self-portrait. It's a shame that Helio didn't go forward [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 03:13:08
Blog: IntoMobile - Mobile Pho...
"The Power Of Ten" at PASS Gallery
Mark Planisek, Unknown Portrait Variations, Serigraph prints, a portion of a 48" x 72" wall installation Group Exhibit: Mark Planisek, Sondra Arkin, Willem deLooper, Stuart Greewell, Rogelio [more...]
Date: 2007-10-01 02:43:20
Blog: Painterly Visions...
Anna, portrait photographer
Anna has been going around the last 2 seasons. photographing everyone backstage from models to make up artists, designers and me, today was my turn [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 08:12:35
Blog: sonny photos...
A Sign of the Times
With contemporary artistic practice progressing and evolving at a fever pitched rate combined with the rapidly growing art market that rewards ... out from the crowd and get noticed. The art market boom has caused an unprecedented appetite for contemporary art that has resulted in an increase in the number of artists being marketed by galleries [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 09:03:00
Blog: Art Blogs - Artblogs - ...
Artomatic's Glass3 @ The Shops at Georgetown Park
2008_0221_VCutler.jpg When it comes to collaborations for events that bring massive amounts of art to as many people as possible, ... ) giant art fair of the same name, Artomatic has joined with the D.C. Government, the Georgetown Business Improvement District, three artist organizations from different cities, and their host venue [more...]
Date: 2008-02-23 02:23:12
Blog: DCist: ...
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Date: 2008-02-28 11:17:17
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Zara Phillips’ Exceptionally Sexy new painting
Zara Phillips’ Exceptionally Sexy new painting February 28th, 2008 ... Relief. Vettriano, whose paintings sell for more than £700,000, was equally keen to paint the 12th ... sexy and powerful image.” The 20in by 24in oil on canvas will be auctioned later this year. (via [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 09:59:11
Blog: British Royal Wedding...
Turkey: Culture Warriors Take Aim at Alcohol
Turkey: Culture Warriors Take Aim at Alcohol BY NICHOLAS BIRCH As clips go, it seems pretty inoffensive: ... littered with so many pictures and statues of Sapamurat Niyazov that outsiders might be forgiven [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 22:52:42
Blog: EurasiaNet.org - Centra...
Tape Art Illusions
Got this photo collection of from a visitor whose contact I have lost, ... me of Barcode Art post, and Scarface Poster Illusion that we already covered in the past. If we got those [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 00:03:26
Blog: Mighty Optical Illusion...
Pattaya in 10 easy moves ” recommended attractions
Pattaya in 10 easy moves ” recommended attractions Situated in the Gulf of Thailand, ... , beginning as mammoth super weapons in times of war and transitioning to beasts of burden in the teak wood [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 05:50:22
Blog: MoreCarHire.com...
The Hidden Treasure (4 -- Refining the Gold)
As difficult and arduous as are the labors of bringing out the precious minerals from their hiding places in the depths of the earth, ... , to be rid of which is the design of the refinement. A miner who takes a sack of gold ore into a store might ... up the gold in our hearts, and store up the knowledge of the Savior, we must be casting out the dirt [more...]
Date: 2008-02-25 22:19:53
Blog: Reformation Theology...
Photography
Photography Feb 28th, 2008 by Administrator Easier - Photography is the art or job of taking or making photographs. It is the creation of images by exposing film or a digital camera tips Photography Return ... for weddings, engagements, fashion, commercial art, free lance, and photojournalism. Our team of trained [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 10:00:16
Blog: Richard’s Photography...
