Group of Seven paintings going up for auction

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 21:34 | Category : Oil Paintings News
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Two paintings by Canada’s Group of Seven artists will be auctioned in Victoria next week.
Lawren Harris’s oil painting Lake Superior Country is estimated to draw bids in the $75,000 to $125,000 range. A.Y. Jackson’s oil painting Farm, St. Tite Des Caps, is expected to draw $20,000 to $30,000.
Peter Boyle, manager at Lunds Auction House, said [...]

A Rich Culture, Fed by Oil

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 18:29 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Berlin History
A century ago, half of the world’s oil came from one place: Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, located on a stretch of Caspian coastline so rich with petroleum and natural gas deposits that the ground could actually catch on fire. Baku, a traditional meeting point of the Ottoman, Persian and Russian Empires, was transformed [...]

Art @ the castle

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 15:15 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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The Visual Art Society’s annual exhibition and sale—Art @ The Castle, showed that there was plenty of interesting and exciting work by relative newcomers, as well as by the more established artists on Saturday, 18 October.
Charles Long, perhaps, more than any other, earns the title of ‘established artist,’ and at this exhibition his new style [...]

Paris Art Center celebrates 54th year

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 13:06 | Category : Oil Paintings News
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PARIS — The Bicentennial Art Center is celebrating its 54th year showcasing the Annual Fall Show.
The Art Center, located at 132 S. Central Ave., Paris, is hosting the show in its main floor galleries now through Nov. 14.
The long tradition of the Annual Fall Show brings forth the works of artists residing within a 100-mile [...]

Oil painting and its headstream

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 10:53 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Oil painting(an oil painting; a painting in oils)is a kind of drawing that used those oils (linseed oil, poppy oil, walnut oil and so on) mix with paint to create on flaxen cloth, cardboard or plank. The diluter which used in painting are volatile turpentine and dry linseed oil and so on. The paint [...]

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