Avant-Garde Heirs Go on Show

Saturday, 29 November 2008, 18:37 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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The Jack of Diamonds was a group of artists that became the main exponent of the Russian avant-garde before the Revolution, a time when nobody imagined how short the first breath of art for art’s sake in Russian painting would last.
Their brief life span produced only two notable Russian followers, Grigory Sretensky and Nina Stenshinskaya, [...]

Local artists gather to show work

Saturday, 29 November 2008, 9:26 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Local artists gathered together Friday and Saturday evening to exhibit their work and hopefully sell a few pieces.
The Duncan Art Guild hosted its annual Holiday Miniature Art Show in the Duncan Regional Hospital health education room.
Approximately 30 artists were represented in 112 displayed works, which covered several genres including oil, pastel, water color and wood [...]

Sir Alex misses new signing

Friday, 28 November 2008, 19:09 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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SIR Alex Ferguson lost out to a Blue when he tried to make his latest signing. The United manager bid £14,000 for a `new’ LS Lowry painting.
But life-long City fan and millionaire businesswoman Carole Nash landed the small painting of a curious dog.
The work, started by Lowry – who died in 1976 – but later [...]

Newark Artists Open Studios

Friday, 28 November 2008, 16:24 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Each year, the public is treated to an incredible opportunity; a chance to glimpse inside local art studios, meet artists and understand the creative processes that result in finished artwork. This year, the Newark Artist Open Studio’s has encouraged local artists to open their workshops to the public, allowing personal visits, browsing and purchase from [...]

Best of Exhibition prize for Chatfield

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 23:30 | Category : Oil Paintings News
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Queenstown artist Jackie Chatfield won the top $2000 Best of
Exhibition prize for her acrylic painting titled Dreams, at
the Queenstown Art Society’s Locations Art Awards night on
Friday.
Barbara Smith, of Queenstown, won Best Traditional Art for
her oil painting Shotover, The Branches.
Karen Scot, of Kingston, won Best Contemporary Art for her
acrylic Crossing Foveaux.
Queenstown [...]

Material and tools of oil painting

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 19:22 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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The main Material and tools are pigments, paintbrush, painting knife, canvas, oil polish, outer frame and etc.
- Pigments, there are mineral substance and chemical synthesis these two broad kinds. The initial pigments most were mineral substance pigments, which made by hand lapping into dead small, and harmonized when drawing. The modern times pigments was put [...]

For sale: A very English view of Wales painted by a Scots artist

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 15:31 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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IT captured a quintessentially English view of 19th-century Welshness and would influence countless picture-postcard images of Wales.
Scottish artist William Dyce’s painting, Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, could fetch between £200,000 and £300,000 at auction tomorrow.
The oil painting, completed around 1860, was one of the most celebrated pieces in a collection owned by Sir David [...]

Dürer’s Engraved Passion on display

Thursday, 27 November 2008, 12:22 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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Some artwork is hard to miss. François-André Vincent’s dramatic 1791 oil painting, Zeuxis Choosing His Models for the Image of Helen from Among the Girls of Croton, will be an obvious showstopper in the Cantor Center for Visual Art’s current exhibition, which focuses on the museum’s newest acquisitions.
Dürer to Picasso opened last week and continues [...]

A Look at the Collection : Three more Crystal Bridges paintings were announced at a public event Tuesday night.

Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 23:18 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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As Chris Crosman, chief curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, dove into his presentation on the artists and stories behind the pieces of art in the museum’s permanent collection on Tuesday night, a second layer of sounds and conversation quietly moved through the Wal-Mart Community Room at the Bentonville Public Library.
It was [...]

The Studio to be featured in ECTC oil painting exhibit

Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 8:15 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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FEATURED ARTISTS
Dianna Green, Dianne Cooper, Janette Henderson, Betty Lou Williams, Carol Jones, Betty Campbell, Marianna Arce, Rose Carter, Monika Moore, Cathy Barnes, Betty Woodson, Deborah Weise, Jackie Gerard, Mary Donovan Hargan, Eugenia Mills, Joyce Sines and Cynthia Overall.
IF YOU GO
The opening of an exhibit by students of The Studio will [...]

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