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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
"Judith, II" ("Salome")
1909, Oil/canvas
178 x 46 cm
Galleria d'Arte Moderna Venice, Italy

Hieronimus Bosch
(c. 1460-1518)
The Ship of Fools
1490-1500, Oil on panel Louvre, Paris, France.

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774-1840)
The Oak Tree in the
Snow
(1829) 71 x 48 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

El Greco
The Knight with His Hand on His Breast
oil/canvas, 81x66 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Henry Rousseau
Liberty Inviting Artists To Take Part In The 22nd Exhibition Of The Societe Des Artistes Independants
1905, oil/canvas
175 x 118 cm
The National Museum of Modern Art
Tokyo

A Flag of Truce. 1900. Oil on panel. Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stream, New Orleans, USA.

Michelangelos David
David. 1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy.

Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69), usually known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, or "Peasant Bruegel" was the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, is by far the most important member of the family...

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The Ancient Modernist: El Greco
Author: Russell Shortt

Hanging Art In The Home – 20 Top Tips By Trevor C Krueger

Methods For Hanging Framed Pictures, Part 1 By Sheila Gallien

Methods For Hanging Framed Pictures, Part 2: Hanging Heavy Pictures By Sheila Gallien

Methods For Hanging Framed Pictures, Part 3: Hanging Metal Pictures By Sheila Gallien

Gustav Klimt - The Frontrunner of Vienna Art Nouveau
By Annette Labedzki

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter of Symbolism and Art Nouveau movement, born on July 14, 1862 to Ernst Klimt, a gold engraver, and Anna Klimt, at Baumgarten, a small place near Vienna. He had two brothers and four sisters & was the second of the siblings. His childhood struggled with poverty and economic difficulties. Bagging a scholarship in 1876, Gustav Klimt completed his architectural painter training form the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts in 1883. His basic work reflected the elements of conservative training. In the year 1877, his brother, Ernst also joined the Vienna School.

Both the brothers, along with a friend, Franz Matsch formed a great team called the "Company of Artists." With the help of their teachers, the trio completed the murals for Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna by 1880. Gustav Klimt started his career by painting the ceilings and the other interiors of the tall buildings. Paintings, sketches, and murals formed the major portion of his works, themed mainly around female body. He adored and idolized Hans Makart, the famous history painter of his time. A series of "Allegories and Emblems" was Klimt's first major success... Read more

Hanging Paintings - Feng-Shui Recommendations
By Ned Ryerson

Where is the best place to hang a picture?

Every artwork, be it a painting or a photograph, generates its own certain kind of energy and creates a unique mood in the viewers. This energy depends on two factors:
1. The dominating color in the picture.
2. The content of the picture (subject matter and theme)

How does one figure out which picture could be useful and fitting in which room: living room, dining room etc? Each room has it own characteristics, such as color, style, size, view from window, and therefore has its own energy. So, in order to fit into a particular room, a picture has to compliment such energy, and not to contradict it. This is only a general idea, to be precise in choosing the picture and finding right place for it, we have to make certain feng shui calculations... Read more

What is Good Art? Interior Design Professionals Weigh in
by Renee Castelluzzo

The first rule for buying art is to love it. The second rule is to be able to pay for it without taking out a bank loan. And, rule #3? Feel good about what you paid for it.

So, how do you know that a piece of art is worth the asking price? If you love it, and can afford it, should you buy it?

We asked over one-hundred interior design professionals for some help. We asked them to review pieces of art and tell us what they think about the quality of the work and the asking price. Each designer chose five pieces of art to review from over 4000 original and limited edition artworks created by independent, fine artists whose work is available at www.DiscoveredArtists.com

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Great Influence on Art's History
By Mike Selvon

When making plans to visit New York City, whether for a family vacation or for a business trip, it is difficult not to run across plenty of information and promotions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This world-class museum is one of the largest anywhere, as well as being one of the best known, and it is where some of the most wonderful collections of fine art anywhere in the world are housed.

The collections that are housed in this New York museum are comprised of more than two million works of amazing art. This stunning supply of art treasures spans more than 5,000 years of world history and culture that comes from every corner the globe. The "Met," as it is popularly called, especially by locals, was founded in 1870 and it is located along the eastern edge of New York City's Central Park, situated on Fifth Avenue. Each year it receives millions of visitors...

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The Spectacular Art of Jean-Leon Gerome
by Stan Parchin

The J. Paul Getty Museum is the first of three venues to present The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (June 15-September 12, 2010). This much anticipated special exhibition, the first of its kind in nearly 40 years, features 99 works by the French artist (1824-1904) and important contemporaries. In light of recent scholarship, the show reconsiders the life and oeuvre of the academic painter and sculptor whose brilliant career was eclipsed by the development of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the Modernist avant-garde. In Los Angeles, California, the installation is organized thematically and chronologically by Mary Morton, Curator and Head of the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art and Scott Allen, the Getty's Assistant Curator of Paintings...

This is Art definetely, and almost visual

During one of my drives home, I switched the radio to the CBC radio2 station - one of my favorite listening spots. My car got instantly filled with a charming atmosphere of pulsating, living music fabric, almost picturesque with its sound.

The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra is one of those albums that experiments with easy listening, and is on the verge of making you tap your foot to the subtle rhythm...

Julie Heffernan's Self-Portrait

The “Self-Portrait” is not only the woman centered in the picture plane but the entire canvas. Each of Heffernan’s paintings is compulsively constructed like that of a surreal automatic drawing, rendering a multiplicity of images like journal entries: the fruit canopies, knotted forests, ghostly wallpaper and vignettes encased in thought bubbles that float around the figure’s head. At the very least, her “self” extends to the canvas edge; at most, it cannot be contained. The amount of detail poured into each painting nearly overflows with life, and invites you in...

Winner of the 2009 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award

The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) announced the Winner of the 2009 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award. It is:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko
ISBN 978-0-88776932-0
US $22.95 / CAN $24.99
All ages

“…Oleg Lipchenko has turned this classic story into a rich expression for both the youngest reader greeting Alice for the first time and those who remember reading the original Alice as children..."

Mutants, Darwin and manipulating with Nature - Ji Yong Ho

The modern Korean-born sculptor Ji Yong Ho creates sculptures of animals from truck, bicycle and automobile tires. “The product is from nature, from the white sap of latex trees. But here it’s changed. The color is black. The look is scary.” Ji Yong Ho considers that he promotes the revival of the used tree trunks, giving them new forms of a life. He says: “My concept is mutation—mutants”...

Venetian Masquerade Masks - History and Uses

The use of Venetian masquerade masks originated from Venice, Italy for their festival. This kind of mask was worn during the Carnival that was first documented use was shown as far back as the 13th century.

During the carnival in Venice, people used masks to hide their true faces and be able to mingle with people of different social standings. This way their identity and social status are kept hidden...

New Leonardo da Vinci painting 'discovered'

The Head of a young Girl by Leonardo Da Vinci

• Portrait may have 500-year-old Leonardo fingerprint on it
• If correct, £12,000 print could be worth tens of millions

Art experts believe a new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to a 500-year-old fingerprint.
The Head of a young Girl, a painting attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci A Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress, the painting which has been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: Christie's

The small picture of a young woman in profile was previously believed to be a German work from the early 19th century and has changed hands in recent years for around £12,000.

The Birdman, Artist in Disguise - Max Ernst.

Max Ernst performs task of the artist perfectly - he transports. The viewer is plucked from reality and deposited in a parallel universe which is distorted, beautiful, awful, great and terrible. It always appeared that it was going to be this way, for even the young Max tested axioms - he confused humans and birds, supposedly not being capable of really telling the difference. Nor did he stop with these ‘simple’ confusions, pretty soon he was strolling around his hometown of Brühl proclaiming himself as Jesus Christ...

The Ancient Modernist: El Greco

El Greco’s The Opening of the Fifth Seal is utterly stupendous, it is staggering, it really is. I find it baffling that this piece of art was created in the early years of the seventeenth century, the curious figure of St. John is so contemporary, like a modern mystic. It leaves the viewer so curious as to where El Greco derived this vision of the Book of Revelation account about the persecuted receiving salvation. However, it is a puzzle which can be unravelled, for it is not a case of El Greco being like the modernists, rather it is the modernists being like El Greco. The movement, colours, symbolism and emotion of his work has influenced painters for centuries but yet not in El Greco’s own time. He was too much a maverick, he was completely ignored, indeed most viewed him disdainfully....

Henri Rousseau - A Singular Artist

Poor old Rousseau, not the eminent Jean Jacques but the much derided Henri. I agree that his art is a tad too much on the cartoon side and I can see why the great Matisse would visibly stiffen upon hearing Henri’s name. However, I can also see how Picasso saw something of a genius, if albeit a completely unsuspecting one, in his work. Legend holds that Rousseau did not pick up a paintbrush until he was forty and then taught himself. His detractors mocked that these were the very reasons that his work was similar to that of a child...

Yves Klein - The Absence of Art

I respect Yves Klein, though often wandering around galleries, shows and installations, I wonder why. He helped create the monster of artistic ambiguity and I find myself forced to look at monochromes, scribbles and doodles and wonder is it me or is much art really too little? The conceptual idea bugs me, really it does, it has being flogged and flogged and flogged; it is tiresome, it is loathsome, it is bothersome. I am not blaming Yves Klein, I realise that the fault lies with his lazy imitators; those who think that something original, may be copied and may remain original...

Wall Art - Tips For Proper Placement

Nothing can finish a room's decor like the effective use of wall art. But people are often perplexed about what to put where. Some of the most common mistakes I see are: art hung too high, size of art out of proportion with the size of the wall and art disconnected from the furniture beneath it.

Here are some tips to help ensure your wall art enhances, rather than detracts from, the overall look of your room...

HOW THE ELDERLY, FAMILY-MAN PUTS UP A PICTURE.
from 'Three Men In A Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome

He always reminds me of my poor Uncle Podger. You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say:
"Oh, you leave that to ME. Don't you, any of you, worry yourselves about that. I'LL do all that."

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Redefine Your Space!

Paintings change the ambience of a room or hall. It is decorative as well as functional. Today it defines the status of a household or a community. These are not mere sketches done randomly, rather, they are strokes done by creative hands. Paintings have the power to unknowingly attract you. They are one of the most beautiful creations of man done with skill and passion.

Oil Paintings, of course, are just one of the numerous forms of Paintings. They are as old as civilization...

French Symbolist Painter, Graphic Artist, & Printmaker - Odilon Redon

'Symbolist' painter, graphic artist, and printmaker, Bertrand Jean Redon or Odilon Redon, was born on April 20, 1840 in Bordeaux, France. He was born in the wealthy family of Bertrand Redon, a French colonist, and Marie Guerin. Odilon spent his early childhood at his uncle's estate in Peyrelebade. In 1880, he married Camille Falte, who later on acted as his spokesperson, dealing with the media and the buyers of his works.

In 1855, Redon began studying drawing at school under Stanislas Gorin and won various prizes...

Interior Design Ideas - 5 Creative Ways To Display Art
By Edwin Mah

You've finally bought your favorite art piece but don't really have a clue as to where and how to display them? Read on and gain some tips on how you can creatively display your art.

1. Leaning art on the wall

The wall isn't the only place where you can display art. You can simply place the picture on the floor and lean it on the wall or furniture. Try placing two art pieces of different sizes, one leaning over the other, partially covering the other one but still leaving most of the art visible.

2. Placing art on a shelf or gallery ledge

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