Articles in the Art Category

Realistic Photo Shoot Using a Diecast Car & a Treadmill
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Posted in Art on 23 July 2020
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This looks like a dynamic Lamborghini going through the paces under the lights at a racetrack on a rainy night  or … Automotive Photographer on Lockdown Creates Realistic Photo Shoot Using Toy Car, Treadmill … You can check out the photos HERE.  

Art Exhibits Behind the Scenes
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Posted in Art on 22 July 2020
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Photographer Nicolas Krief depicts art handlers hoisting and arranging works to execute curators’ visions. The images show us art outside the impeccable context we have come to expect for its public consumption. You can read the interview here at ART IN AMERICA. Nicolas Krief’s series “Accrochages #1 & #2″ HERE.

Great Art Explained (YouTube Channel)
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Posted in Art on 14 July 2020
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There is an excellent YouTube Channel that is a nice compact art history class … Great Art Explained.

What Do René Magritte’s Dreamlike Paintings Mean?
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Posted in Art on 10 July 2020
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Five Curators Offer Their Analyses You can read it HERE at ArtNews.

POP Art Artists And Their Famous Artworks
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Posted in Art on 29 June 2020
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POP Art was a movement that developed in the mid-20th century. It utilized elements from popular culture including advertisements, magazines, product logos and mass media to challenge traditional notions of art. It also employed satire to question the consumerism and industrialism of American culture. Some of the most iconic contributors to the POP Art movement and […]

Experts Call for Regulation: Botched Art Restoration in Spain
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Posted in Art on 25 June 2020
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Immaculate Conception painting by Murillo reportedly cleaned by furniture restorer … you usually have to pay $3 from Goodwill for quality art like this … Of course, you can never beat the original botched restoration … You can read more at THE GUARDIAN.

See the THE LAST SUPPER in Original Detail …
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Posted in Art on 24 June 2020
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Now, this is a COPY of The Last Supper … “The painting was likely done shortly after—if not at the same time—as Leonardo’s masterpiece, which lives at the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan … whereas Leonardo’s artwork was painted in tempura and oil on a wall—an experimental technique at the time—the facsimile […]

AI – Making the Mona Lisa a “Real” Person …
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Posted in Art on 18 June 2020
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AI expert Denis Shiryaev “applied a bunch of different neural networks in an attempt to generate realistic faces of people from famous paintings.” It’s a little  creepy knowing it’s not a real person that’s on-screen but it is amazing and impressive.

How Old Paintings are Professionally Restored (Video)
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Posted in Art on 17 June 2020
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“This is a portrait of Madame Vestris. The first thing we do is inspect the painting with a blacklight to understand what all the issues are.”

Vermeer Essential 3.0 – Massive Visual Deep Dive
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Posted in Art on 13 June 2020
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For fans of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, there is an amazing website with details of the details of everything about his life … Check out Vermeer Essential 3.0  HERE. New scans of the Girl with Pearl Earrings have revealed, “Hidden Details in Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ including the figure’s now-faded eyelashes and green […]