Tag: Picasso
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Workers Re-Create Famous Paintings Using Office Supplies
Following on from previous remakes of famous paintings we’ve featured (here and here), we couldn’t go passed bored office coworkers Chris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni whose remakes were completed using whatever they could find in their office! The project is called “Fools Do Art”, and they followed two simple rules – only use stuff found in the office, and any editing…
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The 14 Paintings That Revolutionized Art
From Gustav Klimt’s gilded aesthetic to Hieronymus Bosch’s devilish landscapes, the realm of art history has seen its fair share of radical painters. Today we accept the work of these artists as part of the canon, but at the time of their debut, masterpieces like “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” were…
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THE TOP TEN THINGS ABOUT THE NEW ARTFIDO
So, you may have noticed. We’ve got a new dog. And we’ve learnt some new tricks. We spent almost all of 2014 fine-tuning artFido.com to make it even easier to buy and sell art online. And we’re pretty proud of the results. Fido has never looked so good. And the site, well it’s running like…
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Are You a True Art Expert?
Below are a number of famous paintings by artists from around the world. Can you recognize the artist from just a small section of the painting? Try out our quiz and let us know your score in the comments section below!
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20 Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings
You’re probably familiar with a lot of these famous Western art masterpieces, but probably not like this! It started when booooom.com partnered with Adobe to create the Remake project, which asked art students to recreate classic paintings into something else using photography. Here’s our favourite 20 of the remakes, including a couple of extras that we found…
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Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?
If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what. So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some…
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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects
UK-based artist Jane Perkins produces incredible pieces that recreate classic works of art and portraits of iconic figures using thousands of multicolored found objects. Each of the artist’s creations is a compilation of numerous objects that range in color, size, and texture. She works with anything from buttons and beads to LEGO pieces, shells, plastic…
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Indigenous art online – beware the unscrupulous online seller
If you enter “indigenous art online” as a Google search query you may be quite surprised by how many results come up. There are hundreds. Actually, if Google is to be trusted, there are over eighteen million relevant results. Eighteen million! That is a lot of options. Some would say too many. And they would…
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Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century – The Times Readers Poll
The Times recently released the results of its reader survey of the Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century. After 1,461,523 votes, the results are fairly conclusive, if not a little surprising. As the Times states, several artists would seem to be overrated whilst others seemingly unrecognised for their influence on modern art. Andy Warhol…
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Is Aelita Andre the real deal? What’s art anyway? Can a kid create art?
There has been a lot of talk about Aelita Andre. At the age of 2, the cute little Australian was already being called a master by many, and at the age of 4, she had already achieved more than most accomplished artist could dream. She had exhibited in New your City (at the Agora Gallery…