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Oil painting involves the use of oil paints in making quality pieces of art. Oil paints are used in painting. The paints are available in a wide range of brands and colors. Basically, the process of oil painting should be fully understood so as to get a hold of a beautiful outcome. For so many people, the process of oil painting is easier said than done. But if you know the detailed procedure on how to make oil paintings on canvas, then it would be...

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If only these walls could talk (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:40:21 GMT
Three years ago, in "Disarmed," journalist and former Texas Monthly editor Gregory Curtis told the story of the Venus de Milo, perhaps the most famous statue from all of antiquity. Now, in "The Cave Painters" (Knopf, ), he dives deeper into the past to examine the most mysterious works in the Western canon: the cave paintings of southern France and northern Spain. As in "Disarmed," Curtis ...

Floral tributes (Guardian Unlimited)
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:59:29 GMT
Some of the most famous flower painters offer us, when it comes down to it, rather little information about the flowers they so often paint.

The afterlife of influence (Boston Globe)
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:26:29 GMT
PABLO PICASSO'S spell over 20th-century art can perhaps be summed up in five words spoken by the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky in 1934. Informed that Picasso had recently started making messier paintings, the very tidy Gorky famously replied, "If Picasso drips, I drip."

Different perspective on some hidden art (The Plain Dealer)
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:09:51 GMT
Some of the best writing about art has come from nonspecialists, writers who are not scholars or historians but who bring a lively curiosity, a good eye and clear prose to the subject. Michael Crichton, author of techno-thrillers, wrote one of the best books on the painter Jasper Johns.