Famous Painters

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Monets and Oil Paintings Highlights:

Magnificent oil paintings always add an extra spark of elegance to the overall ambience. Good paintings go a long way in defining the character of a specific place and add a certain amount of style and distinctiveness to it. Art lovers crave to possess and display the original oil painting masterpieces as a part of their lifestyle, but many of them are unable to do so. Original oil paintings are difficult to acquire and most are not even available for sale. It is only through...

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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 ...

Focus on Framing: Choosing the Right Frame (American Artist)
Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:05:08 GMT
One framer remembers an artist who intended to encase his canvases for an upcoming exhibition in frames he had salvaged from neighborhood trash cans.

Events as they happened (Tallahassee Democrat)
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:38:12 GMT
Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp had a moment during Tuesday's inaugural events to reflect as he tried to restore shoes to his squirming 2-year-old son. "You just get a certain sense of history when you're here," he said on the front lawn of the Governor's Mansion, as Gov. Charlie Crist stepped out to greet a throng of well-wishers. "We spent the time before we went on the dais (for the swearing-in) inside ...

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.

Legends, leaders, and legacies: The year in farewells (Boston Globe)
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:47:19 GMT
At the close of a year fraught with political conflict and cultural fragmentation, Americans were touched by the deaths of two iconic figures, one hailed for restoring decency and civility to national politics, the other for imbuing pop music with a propulsive beat that cut across genres and generations.