Tag: painting
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15th-century paintings by Antonello da Messina
Wrote Sicilian essayist Leonardo Sciascia on the “Portrait of a Man” by 15th-century Italian painter Antonello da Messina: “Is he a nobleman or a plebeian? A solicitor or a farmer? A painter, a poet or a killer? He just resembles. That’s all I can say.” At Milan’s Palazzo Reale (via Finacial Times)
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Kitt Bennett’s pavement murals
These sprawling murals by Melbourne-based artist Kitt Bennett in parking lots and on top of buildings are one of a kind. Kitts observational drawings of his surroundings have been translated into murals for clients and collectors across Melbourne. He’s work is often conceptually driven as exploring topics of individuality, existence and the mysterious phenomena that…
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‘Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent’
“Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent.” — Charles White
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Leonardo’s strange faces
There’s an excellent piece in the NY Times about Leonardo Da Vinci’s obsession with drawing weird faces: Leonardo was a true Renaissance man, fascinated with everything — the mechanics of flight, architecture, engineering, botany, artillery and human anatomy — but one of his favorite private pastimes was to draw faces, either as scribbles in the…
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Surreal paintings by Lithuanian artist Gediminas Pranckevičius
Conceptual artist and illustrator Gediminas Pranckevicius creates digital art that instantly whisk viewers off into a world of imagination. The Lithuania-born artist uses soft light and blended colors to create harmonious worlds where it is easy to get lost in the surreal stories. He uses software like Photoshop to produce the playful digital drawings that…
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‘To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society’
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.” — Man Ray, Self-Portrait