"The Tuscan light and shadow" Italian paintings

"The Tuscan light and shadow - 1850-1950 Italian oil painting exhibition" will be in milan on March 29.At that time, hundreds of Italy between 1850 and 1950, a famous oil painting an original will meet with the audience, the exhibits include giovanni torrey, method of the grassland pasture and oskar killelea callas etc as teaching material sample painting in art history.Content on display will be divided into landscape, water features, characters, animals, extension papers to five parts, vividly recorded the "modernization" of Tuscany region oil painting trajectory, reflect the local response of painters in the art of ideological trend of new era.

The maths 13 - the limit of world famous paintings

For a time didn't update this series because at the invitation of the proceedings where open column "whom painting", and they hope that my new starting in the column.This is the reason for the delay, I am here to enjoy this series of bloggers to modest.Today the main part of the post has been published in science, so according to the promise, I can continue this series.Unlike column limited word count and the number of figure, I can speak freely here.

Front bloggers have pointed out that in the comments said painting is most closely relationship with mathematics escher.Indeed, talk about painting on the maths escher is unthinkable.But precisely because this kind of close relationship just let I hesitated.Of course it is difficult to imagine is to face.Escher's thesis episode is hard to say, then I try to talk about the next few episode escher, wrong place, please.

The ritz, nai, Escher, (Maurits Cornelis Escher, 1898-1972), the Dutch graphic artists.With his derived from mathematical inspiration is famous for its wood, prints and other works.His works implied intriguing mathematical ideas and philosophical thinking but not attributable to any one genre.He created the style of a little state of epic proportions, not only unprecedented, as if also can't see followers, but by many scientists.The spirit of his art shows the mathematics, the beauty of philosophy.He will mathematical symmetry, precise, rules, step by step, fantasy and other abstract characteristics with incredible performance in magic work, and the dimension of seemingly contradictory state with unspeakable mix to the plane in the form of canvas.For example, it is up to the second floor stair somehow has returned to the first floor, the bird in the constantly changing don't know when suddenly turned into a fish.The magic of his art is full of difficult to resist, to conquer the people's hearts.Although for a long time his art was fine arts as a heresy, but the scientists around the world in the extensive and profound appreciation has established unshakable position.


Tian and Wang Bei ever translation Bruno. Ernst, a book "the magic mirror - escher impossible world".The author of the book through and escher exchanges and close observation, trying to interpret escher people through the brush to render impossible in the world., however, the author's escher seems to be no different and ordinary people, and even popular love mathematicians of his mathematical training is very limited, he said: "I never pass my math. Funny is that I don't seem to know what happened to understand mathematics theory. Indeed, I am in school math is very poor. But now, boy -- mathematician in with my print book illustrations for them. Can't imagine, I unexpectedly with these guys learned pool, as if I was their long-lost brother. I guess they know nothing about my ignorance in mathematics must."This information is released, escher without too much math training, and the traditional math grades are not good.But he is in a form of "intuition" to understand a lot of people feel more esoteric math, and you can use his brush with the unknown excitation real mathematicians communication.Such a phenomenon, in addition to the "genius", don't release it.


Escher oil painting from the view of mathematics, can be roughly divided into the limit, the mutual coupling and transformation, Yi Wei, empty, etc.Later we appreciate respectively.In this episode we appreciate his limit diagram.


Two pictures below, on the left side of the call Circle Limit III (Limit Circle. 1959), the right is Smaller and Smaller
(smaller and smaller. 1956).Painting problem, point out the limit.

Limit of budding have long, chuang tzu in ancient China, recorded in the "zhuangzi. The article" the "take its half a foot of civic, day, Jesus Christ."Reflects the simple limit thought.Accurate portrayal of the concept of limit in mathematics is in the 18th century, with the improvement of the mathematics calculus discipline by Cauchy (AugustinLouis Cauchy, 1789-1857) and Wei Ersi terra si (Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstra decide, 1815-1897) and others strict and complete.It refers to the variables in the process of certain changes, from the trend could not be accused of scattered or gradually stable change process, the former is called the divergence becomes infinite, which is known as the convergence to the limit.In the modern mathematical analysis, almost all the basic concepts, such as continuous and differential, integral is based on the concept of limit, that is the limit is the soul of the calculus.And the "bad at math" escher is adept to the limit of the abstract concept vividly expressed in the concrete of the canvas, with limited challenge, using static depict variation.

Chuang tzu is in one dimensional space in interpretation of civic limit of infinitesimal calculus, and escher, is described in the two-dimensional canvas limit.He painted many limit diagram, the figure is a typical two above.Respectively through a circle and a square, with the image of the animal (escher favorite painting of animals, fish and lizards) growing and the smaller the convergence to the edge and center respectively.Because in the two-dimensional space, the limit is generally a one-dimensional curve in the two-dimensional space, also may degenerate into a point.Limit in the left is the week of the round edge, on the right limit is in the center.


In spite of the computer today, it is easy to through the program to draw similar graphics.But consider in an era of escher, this process is the "foreseen to realize" escher genius.

Paintings stolen to return to the museum in 63

27 the Baltimore museum of art in 63 years ago stolen a French famous painter Pierre le nuba small paintings.
The theft of the Seine river in 1951 for le nuba creation in 1879, only 23 cm long and 14 cm wide.The Baltimore museum of art on the same day with the subject of the painting held a named "return" le nuba works exhibition, 30 is scheduled to open to the public.

Collectors "YiDi May 1925 in the French capital Paris bought the painting and lend the Baltimore museum of art, then give the museum is more than 800 works of art.
Stolen the Seine river in 1951, 1951.Virginia, a woman claimed that this picture is bought at a flea market for $7 and plans to auction.Just, auction by people, including her brother.The Washington post, a reporter found that the painting is associated with the Baltimore museum of art.
The picture then trigger a involve multiple lawsuits, dramatic include the federal bureau of investigation, the woman, an insurance company and YiDi intention, etc.
A federal court judge in January this year, the owner of the painting for the Baltimore museum of art.

The British national gallery veronese never outreach paintings

Famous Italian Renaissance painter Paul zakaria, Veronese (Paolo Caliari Veronese) painting, an unprecedented exhibition in the United Kingdom.
Veronese's famous painting "the st George's martyrdom" (c. 1565) had been kept in a church in Italy verona, never been on public display or checked out display.

This famous painting is the British national gallery called "brilliant Renaissance Venetian painting, veronese exhibition" part of it."St George's martyrdom" only leave verona this church was in 1797, it was napoleon's army swept to Paris, but returned in 1815.
The top works

On Wednesday (19) the opening of the exhibition display veronese 50 paintings, many exhibitors from across Europe and the United States to London.
National art museum curator Xavier, Solomon (Xavier Salomon) said, "st George's martyrdom" is the top works in this exhibition.
This, he says, is the national gallery to host this exhibition participation in it is the best one, thought it impossible to borrow at the beginning of this famous painting, but then was a success.
In this painting, at 4.3 meters tall center is surrounded by a crowd of st George, he refused to worship the pagan idols, is raised his eyes looking up at the sky.
In veronese Oil Painting Reproductions Paul zakaria, born in 1528, died in 1588, is one of the most famous painter in the 16th century Venetian school, and Titian (Titian) and Tintoretto (Tintoretto).

Monet exhibition: light and color in the painting

Staple of impressionist paintings
"Impression, sunrise" is a staple of impressionist paintings, monet is also thought to be the first light outside using techniques of impressionist paintings.This oil paintings depicts the French le havre port on a foggy morning, violet sea, vibrant sunrise, reddish sky, swaying boat was bathed in a looming situation.This is the first time that the painter to pull the art from the shrines into life, this kind of rapid, bold, messy writing for academic artists consistently orthodox salon is rebellious, and so it is ironic as "blank wall paper is better than the seascape integrity", "to beauty and true negative, can only give a person a kind of impression", etc., for this kind of critique, monet to this picture named "impression, sunrise", to the salon academic artists made a silent.
"Haystack"
Light and color of infinite possibility
1891 years ago, a day evening, monet and daughter to go for a walk in the house on the hillside, suddenly noticed a haystack of sunlight, see the light and shadow in the above continuously jump, he excited, so he began to constantly portray the haystack light in different time.From this year autumn to spring of 1892, monet painted in total 24 "haystack", they have a plenty of exposure in the midday sun, have a plenty of standing in the snow back ChuJi, have a plenty of bath in the morning mist, some is shrouded in the evening dusk.The shape, location, similar haystack, due to the ever-changing light and become colorful.All the promoters of the nature of light and become and initiator.Because there is light, the world more colorful, unpredictable.
"Water lily" the dream of beauty and poetic sentiment
Monet in painting of middle age, there are in the market, the economy improved.So he is in Paris on the outskirts of pooh village built a garden, water, Bridges, weeping willow, flowers, and breeding a large number of water lily in the pond.In the afternoon sun, the water lilies floating on the water like a mirror, the abnormal of aquatic plants, larger leaves split to the outside, the fascinating flower moved well, western color, light and Oriental poetic sentiment cleverly convergence here together, into the artistic style of monet's most iconic form.Late monet eyesight worse and worse, cataract almost made him blind, but he still insist on painting, escapes in the artistic style of partial representations to the more concise, abstract images, those specific flowers, monet's water lilies seems to melt, and only the twitching of the brush, bouncing colour, like the quiet water lily floating in the eyes of the viewer and the inside of the heart, always sending out the unique and the beauty of the dream of the eternal.

Painting is a kind of not losing money consumption for investment - especially in the oil painting for long

Can only walk a step by step, the art market for ordinary consumers.From the low end of the road, because the road is a little bit small risk.Bo treasure oil painting art treasure Jane mall north Korea hit that illustrates the development trend.Held in national art museum of USA in 2008 sponsored by the academy of art, Oil painting institute to undertake large-scale oil painting exhibition "seeking the source asked - oil painting wholesale research show, in north Korean delegation of artists.Gathered at the exhibition of USA most famous painter, concentrated shows many of the best oil painting in USA.North Korean artist delegation said, north Korea has a lot of artists can fully meet USA artist such realistic level, most of the time just artist is arranged in order to complete the country assigned tasks and creation, don't know what is the market, also don't know the price of the demand of the market "works of art for the revolution of the Korean artist was a confused and embarrassed topic, because he hasn't the concept of art market, won't use money to measure his revolutionary subject matter works of fine art. Especially the art works that sing of north Korean leader is ready to north Korean artists to defend and protect with life.

Plump happy family oil painting

People Oil Painting

There's a certain kind of person that hears I'm an artist and responds, "Cool, I've taken some art classes." I usually bite my tongue, but it also makes me wonder -- do they ever imagine how well those comments would go over in other fields? If a new acquaintance mentioned the years spent in medical school, would they feel the need to discuss how adept they are at bandaid application? When that dude at a party says he's an economics major, do they launch into a description of how fluently they navigate an online bank account? I doubt they feel an urge to mention to the stranger next to them at a coffee shop busting out HTML code all the meticulous ways they hashtag selfies on Instagram.

For some, being an artist may not qualify as an acceptable, salary-guaranteed career that adults do, and they've decided that it is more suitably viewed as a hobby. However, no matter what career path they're traipsing down, or which major is asking obscene amounts of money on tuition per year to attain, it all demands a certain level of talent a well as serious commitment to succeed. Working in the arts is no different. It asks the same commitment and in some cases, higher levels of talent. Unless the end-goal involves a one room apartment, drinking Listerine to get your kicks and counting how many oil stains you've accumulated on your fry cook apron, working in any field takes skill, a lot of practice and some very hard work to do well. No offense to McDonald's cooks; I'm sure the Big Mac you've just cooked was beautifully plated next to my fries in my paper carry-home bag.

Somehow, musicians, photographers and artists are still grouped into the "slacker" category. Basically, my job choice is a merely worthy of another's hobby. And this isn't a thought process that necessarily changes when artists become successful and sell their goods for unthinkable sums of money. A Jackson Pollock painting just sold for $140 million dollars in 2006 -- the highest price ever paid for a work of art at that time. Another piece by a modern, abstract artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, sold for $48.8 million dollars last May, attaining the new highest record for the artist's work. And yet, there are still people who look at both artists, shrug their shoulders and criticize, "Eh, I could do that." If you did, I'd like to see how much it fetches at your garage sale.

Maybe I should simplify: Your macaroni art frame you glued together in kindergarten is not be the same quality as the oil-paint, three foot by five foot portraits that I am commissioned to paint. Nor would you expect someone to pay you a lawyer's fee ever time you talk yourself out of a speeding ticket. Artists take pride in their work, an idea that goes for any career. Doctors know that what they do every day is only possible after years of studying and practice. And yet there is a perceived difference between hippy, peace-lovin' artists and adults with a respectable profession. I like to imagine my Uncle Bobby saying that last sentence, who lives in the boonies of Louisiana and takes every chance to make sure I know what a stand-up writer Bill O'Reilly is. But maybe the difference is in visibility of commitment and talent. With career success measured in fame or monetary gain, it's easy to write off the arts, because the majority of artists don't rake in the big bucks. In fact, artists love their trade so much that they couldn't give any less of a poop whether or not they make money. That much should be obvious from the way we lock ourselves in studios, behind keyboards or in a darkroom and work obsessively. If Wolf of Wall Street was about art and named Wolf of Chelsea Art Galleries, the commitment to the trade would be the same, maybe minus the hookers and probably a lot less cash thrown around. I can't say the same for the candle/bondage scene though. Artists can be just as kinky as the next kid.

Anyone can see the nearly-obsessive drive common in artists from the coffee and cigarettes stereotype we've garnered; anything to keep us wired enough to just finish this painting, just to let me fix the way the light hits her nose even though I've probably repainted it fifteen times, even though no one will notice but me and it's 4:00 a.m.

You see, we love what we do so much that we're willing to risk the warm feeling of a monthly paycheck in our plump little palms, and with that, losing the qualifiers that make a job "successful." Most artists can't afford the nice car, new house or trendy clothes, but it doesn't make the career choice less valid. Some people may be delighted when they get a promotion and that corner office, but my challenges come in the form of executing accurate foreshortening on a new perspective, or painting wrinkles without making my subject look ancient. I'm ecstatic when I render a middle-aged portrait without making them look impossibly youthful or outrageously ancient. Although that's a harder accomplishment to pinpoint, the frequent lack of economic gain shouldn't knock an artist's work from profession to hobby. Does the talent become less valid when the majority of the professionals in that field aren't lucrative? Maybe that's what makes people see a Pollock as a fluke or a Richter as outlandish.

More importantly, that's the main reason I don't want to see anyone's skull and crossbones pencil sketch they've done on the margins of your college-ruled 8 1/2" by 11" notebook. If you ever feel the urge to mention your Polaroid camera when someone says they're a photographer, ask yourself if you would tell a lawyer that Law and Order: SVU is totally your favorite show. And please, next time you see a Warhol sell for an unspeakable sum, don't say "I could've done that." You could've, but you didn't. An artist did.

Mediterranean Scenery Oil Painting

Mediterranean Oil Painting

A group from Andrei Belichenko & Maria Boohtiyarova two artists cooperation work, oil painting with light feeling, touching and sweet, soft and comfortable.Quietly elegant of colour fundamental key used by painters do not fall convention, ingeniously foil of the white theme, the proceed of the painter.

Wine bottle Oil Painting

Wine bottle Oil Painting

" Helga 's husband was a German ." Wise said in a story in the air and said, " Once, when he came up to me , I asked him, ' John, you do not mind if I draw your wife , right ?' Then he replied , 'No, that's okay , just do not like oil painting bare ' . " here, Wise deliberately paused, then went on to say , " Okay, I actually have time secretly painted his wife three Chang ass up . "

Secret model for 15 years and created 240 works . He quipped: "Some people would assume that there must have sexual relations , but God, ah, whatever the outcome, they also consider the total number of the works created during my right, I could not have children while children while children Director painting it. "

After the exhibition of nude Helga , he still occasionally draw her, but he never took her only as a neighbor only. But, the female neighbor can inspire similar special forces painters , with Wise 's own words , " to release me ." Neighbors , George and Helen couples may well give for inspiration, he said: . " They are nice, very happy posing in bed ."

Helen Sipala called Wise as " mischievous ghost" , she said: . " He is a early birds, 15 years, is estimated there three days a week will come to stroll around our house when we familiar with each other , we told him where we hid the keys and told him that he wanted to walk around when you can come at any time . so , we 'll see him often at around 5:00 .

France hilarious to see the human face painting

"View of Painting " series of photos taken so : a friend in Paris opened a street named " Romeo " antiques shop, operating 19th century crafts and oil paintings. On one occasion, the purchase of a painter in this shop Wagner's body painting , hanging in the window .think: if the different reactions of various characters to shoot down one by one , and perhaps will form a very interesting series of thematic photos. So he . In the antique store to find a suitable angle , sitting on a chair , put the units commonly used Rollei dual camera on the knees, continuous shooting. Due to the reflective glass windows , paintings of people standing in the window appearance is not easy to find the dark Du Wanuo sitting room . Coupled with dedicated viewing paintings , which reveal the truth demeanor is two or three days so that "passive " type of shooting brilliant victories .

 Robert Dewar Connaught ( April 1912 -1994 in January ) , France 's most famous and prolific reportage photographers , low-key and humble, cynical and satirical ridicule style known frequented at all levels of society , were removed from Paris streets and cafes . Du Wanuo most famous work is the " town hall kiss ." These old photos are selected from Du Wanuo 's "View of Painting" series photo collection .

Works of art on the wall Very suitable for small family

Home space even if little to no, you are still thinking about the fortress of the next work table or desk?From Austria IVY DESIGN DESIGN Picture of the Table may be able to achieve your wish.The desktop is equipped with two legs, can receive three metal stents to strengthen the stability and magnetic force to complete the closed close;Combination of side table and hang a picture to two distinct functions, not only when you have finished using the dinner table in metope can be save space, still can put on his collection of posters,Canvas art, or take salon, can replace at any time according to their own holiday mood or more images, it is kill two birds with one stone!

Wine and Canvas

Wine and Canvas Art is a mobile business that brings the party to your favorite venues, corporate events, or living room! We make painting easy and exciting. Our talented artists will instruct you step-by-step through re-creating the featured painting of the day. At the end of the event, you'll take home a work of art that you created. Wine and Canvas is cheaper than art school! There are no lengthy or expensive commitments as with art classes. You can join us whenever you want, once, once a week, once a month, for special occasions or as long as it takes to create a collection that is uniquely yours. "Life is too short for blank walls; unleash your inner Picasso"
We will be at the Women's Expo Friday , Saturday and Sunday offering "Hand's On" mini classes for you to try Wine and Canvas.
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Beaufort Art Association hosts spring show, oil painting workshops

Beaufort Art Association's 53rd annual Spring Show will be from March 15 through March 22 in the second level of Old Bay Marketplace, 917 Bay Street, Beaufort. Local artists will present their works in oils, acrylics, watercolor, photography, mixed media, pottery, woodturning, metal sculpture and more. The art will be for sale. Admission is free. Artist Alan Campbell, who has earned recognition for his figurative watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes, wildlife, and people from around the world, will judge the 200 entries. Campbell has had more than 50 exhibitions in museums and galleries in the U.S., Chile and New Zealand. He has traveled as an expedition artist to Antarctica, Costa Rica and Peru to help raise awareness of environmental issues. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, New Zealand Herald and Explorers Journal. In conjunction with the show, Campbell will hold a en plein aire oil painting workshop on March 22-23. The workshop is open to artists at all levels. The workshop will focus on painting Beaufort's views of marshes, live oaks and the Beaufort River and the historic homes in the Point. Each day includes an hour-long demonstration, one-on-one instruction and critique.