Gauguin’s teeth found in well Bovril jar, perfume and morphine also discovered Martin Bailey LONDON. An archaeological dig on the remote Marquesan island of Hiva Oa has uncovered the secrets of the water well used by Paul Gauguin. The buried objects range from a New Zealand beer bottle to four human teeth. Gauguin lived in [...]
Jackson Pollock – Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952
Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952 Painted relatively late in Jackson Pollock’s career, this painting conveys the unique skill that Pollock had by now achieved with his infamous ‘drip’ technique. Executed on unstretched canvas laid flat on the floor, both the artist’s dripping, splashing and pouring of paint onto the work’s surface and the scale of [...]
Gunpowder artist blazes a trail for Asian market
From The Times November 27, 2007 Jane Macartney in Beijing A set of 14 abstract paintings made using gunpowder have become the most expensive works of contemporary Asian art to be sold at auction. An unidentified Asian art investor paid $9.5 million (£4.5 million) for the works, Set of 14 Drawings for Asia-Pacific [...]
Jim Rosenquist
Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1933, He now lives and works in Aripeka, Florida, and New York City Jim Rosenquist had an itinerant childhood. An only child, he moved with his family frequently throughout the Midwest. His parents shared with him their interest in airplanes and things mechanical. In junior high school Rosenquist took [...]
Guernica painting
Guernica painting Guernica: Testimony of War It is modern art’s most powerful antiwar statement… created by the twentieth century’s most well-known and least understood artist. But the mural called Guernica is not at all what Pablo Picasso has in mind when he agrees to paint the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World’s [...]
National Museum of Iraq to reopen
According to The Art Newspaper the National Museum of Iraq is to reopen. Is this a good move? The museum has already been looted once resulting in 1000′s of precious artifacts being destroyed or stolen. Read the full article below. Museum director Amira Edan gives US Army Lt Col Kenneth Crawford, commander of the 2nd [...]
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
I just love the Mexican painters so much I thought it was about time I did another one. I went to an exhibition in Budapest once, opened by the Mexican Ambassador and so this artists’ work and was overwhelmed by its beauty, hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Alfredo Ramos Martinez was [...]
Quirky Cornish Cats
I grew up in Cornwall and besides pirates, smuggling, rum, tin mines, and its beautiful coastline Cornwall is famous for its cats. They are everywhere, and they don’t have a care in the World. They are probably the fattest, happiest cats you will ever see. Couch Cats, Ponckle Whilst browsing I stumbled upon this website [...]
Top 7 Movies on Art and Artists
Here are the top seven movies on art and artists, my pick of course, although I would have some difficulty where to put Pollock and Frida, as I think I may have been a little tight. They probably belong a lot further up. I do also like ‘Girl with the Pearl Earing’ but I think [...]
René Magritte
“René Magritte was no doubt disappointed that, aside from the small circle of his kindred spirits among the Surrealists, the world needed over a quarter of a century to discover that his work has both philosophical and poetic content which corresponds to certain social and intellectual trends, particularly of the second half of the twentieth [...]
