Thursday, March 20, 2014
Napolioni Art
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Dali and Einstein Big Bang evidence presented by Scientists today
Salvador Dali was a fan of Albert Einstein and created Einsteins portrait along with studying his findings on the Big Bang Theory.
It looks like it's more than a theory now.
Major scientific discoveries announced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics help explain the universe.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Southampton City Council Get Flack For Art Collection Sell Off Plans
he South Hampton City art collection was first acquired in 1911 after a bequest by local Councillor Robert Chipperfield, who strongly believed that art benefited the community at large. The collection has grown over the years to include masterpieces by Monet, Turner and Lowry. The core collection is British 20th Century and contemporary art and currently has 2,700 works and spanning eight centuries in its inventory.
Over the years as the collection increased in value, many of the works of art were put in storage, in a vault under the council offices, to avoid the high cost of insurance. Now the council has proposed a sell off of the collection. "The terms of the bequest mention that the council can use paintings or resources to ensure that the collection continues, however it always raises questions of inappropriate 'selling off of the family jewels'. One other concern would be to only sell to another pubic collection.
The authority was slammed in 2010 over a proposal to sell off artwork on the open market in order to raise £5m to help fund the Titanic museum."If pieces were sold from Southampton's collection that sets a precedent for local councils and museums to sell pieces from collections to fund unrelated schemes and services." The authority said it had no problem with a trust coming in, but pointed out it would "still have to raise the £2m".
Resident Alex Lawrence has started a petition, calling for the works to be put into an independent trust taking away the council's powers to sell. He stated: "Any sell off would be catastrophic and have damaging consequences. "All other avenues of funding need to be explored first. The collection belongs to the people of the city and it should be safeguarded. It should not be sold to prop up other council services, he added.
Labels:
art auctions,
art for sale,
british,
Chipperfield,
fine art,
southhampton
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.
Labels:
barcelona,
dali,
figures,
gala,
melting clocks,
moustache,
museum art,
persistence of memory,
salvador dali,
spanish artist,
surrealism
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Art Work Podcast
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Interviews with artists and other creative people. We discuss how art is created, the history of art, what inspires artists and more.
The topics will include:
Painting
Drawing
Sculpting
Dancing
Acting
Singing
Dancing
Digital Art
Writing
..or anything that has to do with being creative.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Twisted Metal Art
Labels:
art,
art gallery,
fine art,
interior design art,
modern art,
nice art,
photography,
surreal art,
twisted metal
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