The ache and loss in Haiti has been upsetting, but nothing has been as distressing as the stories and images of the island's children.The international aid organization Save the Children estimates that 1 around million Haitian children lost either one or both parents in the colossal earthquake that struck the island on Jan. 12. And now, as thousands of children roam alone all the way through the ruins of their homes and neighborhoods, several fear they are susceptible to disease, famine and child predators. Many people have searched for ways to help and one such person is Newburyport artist and graphic designer Lisa Riordon who has adopted a new method for helping.
Riordon, who is known for her signature series of paintings of children in silhouette, decided almost at once to put her art about kids to work for kids. And she has teamed up with a group of Newburyport elementary school students to get the work done.Riordon conveyed that it is such a large scale event that it can be tough to feel like you can do anything to make a difference. She also said that she wanted kids to be able to do something to help.
Riordon has launched "A Painting a Day" fundraiser, and for this month, and possibly longer, she will create a fresh set of paintings of children in silhouette which will eventually be sold to raise money to support Save the Children's relief effort in Haiti.
 Like her previous works, these paintings start with an abstract field of lively color and brush strokes and are finished with a silhouette that captures something essential and universal about childhood. Different from her previous paintings, Riordon isn't painting each individual background.
For this gamut of paintings, students from Eileen Whitney's third grade class at Bresnahan School and children from Margaret Foster's kindergarten class at Brown School are taking care of this initial step.
Riordon said that the 20 kids whom she worked with to create the 6-inch by 6-inch abstract paintings are so motivated about this project. The kids learned the basics of abstract art and were delighted to discover that sometimes it is acceptable to sling paint, especially when it's for a good cause. Also,these kids wanted to know more about Haiti. Labels: abstract art, Haiti, Lisa Riordon, Painting
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Fable III developer Lionhead Studios has been unexpectedly calm about the third installment it plans on launching late 2010 (and teasing in February), but if thought painting is your object, today is your day.
Lionhead released a stunning and dazzling wallpaper painting of beautiful Albion today comprehensive with its brilliant rolling hills, lush forest, tall mountains, and a general soft tone to the complete thing.
The wallpaper is obtainable for download in three diverse dimensions from the Fable Blog, and looks pretty nice once applied as wallpaper
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Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, counting a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, as of a confidential villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.
The haul, which as well included a work of art by post-impressionist Henri Rousseau, was value about 1 million euros ($1.43 million), a judicial source said.
The robbery was revealed on Thursday by a concierge at the house in the Provencal village of La Cadiere d'Azur. The proprietor was on holiday in Sweden at the time and has while returned to France to assist the investigation, police said.
It was the second main art theft in southern France in current days; even though there was no sign the two crimes were associated.
A sketch by French impressionist Edgar Degas was stolen from a museum on Wednesday night in the Mediterranean city of Marseille. Police said the pastel work, "The Chorus," was worth an estimated 800,000 euros.
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Two modern works, a painting by Fred Tomaselli and a snapshot by William Wiley, have been added to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection.
The Tomaselli art work, "Woodpecker" is a 2008 work in acrylic, gouache, photo collage, and resin on wood pane measuring 6 by 6 feet.  In "Woodpecker" hundreds of collaged beaks form the bird's own beak and thousands of flowers build up his body, "thus structure the bird out of his own sources of sustenance," Ravenal explains. The painting was purchased by the museum with resources provided by Pamela Kiecker and William A. Royall Jr. and by means of support from the VMFA Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund.  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is at 200 N. Boulevard in Richmond, Va. From extraordinary collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, American and British art to internationally recognized collections of the work of Peter Carl Faberge as well as decorative arts, Contemporary art, South Asian art and African art, VMFA's holdings include more than 22,000 treasures. The museum also presents a wide array of special exhibitions that engage visitors. Labels: acrylic, Museum, Painting
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 Painter James Rosenquist discusses his living as an artist and his work. His chronicle, Painting below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, recounts his early days in the Midwest, his move to New York in 1955, his time as a sign painter for film and theater billboards, the art dealers that helped shape his career, and the community of artists he was inspired by. Labels: James Rosenquist, Painting
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The painting, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, was hung in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery since it was bought for 22,000pounds in 1994.Currently a well-known expert believes the pastel might be Prince Henry Benedict's instead of Prince Charlie.The gallery supposed it was common for re-attributions to be made.The entire notion follows a two-year argument over the identity of the man in the painting since London art dealer Bendor Grosvenor claimed it was not Bonnie Prince Charlie.  Initially, the gallery dismissed the claim citing expert on Jacobite portraiture, Dr Edward Corp of the University of Toulouse, France, in its defence. However, Dr Corp has now altered his view in an article in the latest issue of The British Art Journal. Dr Corp stated that the heaviness of evidence, perhaps regrettably, supports Bendor Grosvenor's argument that the pastel in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery depicts Prince Henry rather than Prince Charles. He also added that whether the portrait does or doesnt show Prince Charles really does matter.It is not only the catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery which has to be corrected. The impression which an entire nation has derived of this vital historical figure also needs to be modified. The portrait has been reproduced in all biographies of the prince, and has been chosen to express the article about him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. An account about the controversy surrounding the picture will be attached in the National Galleries of Scotland when it goes back on show at the gallery in two years' time subsequent to a refurbish of the building. Labels: Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Painting, Prince Charles, Prince Henry Benedict
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Sylvester Stallone is now a painter who is enjoying the wave of success, after he exhibited his paintings at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair,Florida.Sylvester Stallone had proved to be a versatile person as a writer, director, producer, action star.Now with his first art exhibition,he has revealed additional areas of his talents. Apparently, the 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' star has been painting part time for more than a span of 30 years, but its only now that he has started earning money from it.The exhibition "Trapped Ideals" is priced in the $40 - $50,000 range and it is expected that the paintings will not spend too much time hanging on the wall at the gallery. Two other paintings,one priced $40,000 and the other $50,000, sold within hours of the gallery opening, which only indicates that Sylvester's art is greatly appreciated.  At the art gallery, Las Vegas casino billionaire Steve Wynn purchased one of Stallone's abstract pieces for $40,000.Additionally, a self-portrait of Stallone, that he painted close to 40 yrs ago, was purchased by $50,000. At the event,while speaking with the media, the actor honestly admitted to being tense at the thought he'd have his works in the same room as those of Colombian artist Fernando Botero. The reason being, Sylvester Stallone admired the paintings of Fernando Botero and has been collecting them for many years now. Labels: Art Exhibition, Painting, Sylvester Stallone
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Brilliant, vivid colors decorated Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, according to a digital renovation of the masterwork at the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop" at Discovery Times Square exhibition in New York. Painted to supply monks at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan by means of something to contemplate throughout meals, the wall painting(mural) is well thought-out one of da Vinci's best works. Regrettably, the work of art began to get worse as soon as it was completed in 1498.  "In the present day, The Last Supper is faded and fractured. Thus, these luminous, soaked colors may come into view dreadful, but we accept as true this renovation is the nearby symbol of how the fresco ought to have looked similar to once Leonardo painted it," Mario Taddei, display creator and scientist at Milan's Leonardo3, told Discovery News. The digital renovation is the outcome of careful psychoanalysis based on hundreds of high-definition photographs of the masterwork.
"It was a kind of archaeological renovation or reconstruction. The high-definition pictures permitted us to prevent from spreading the original pigments," Taddei said.
Pixel by pixel, the researchers clone da Vinci's unique pigments, by means of their practical and virtual palette to reinstate areas where the color is irreparably misplaced.
In sort to complete the fresco's misplaced parts -- a entrance was slash from side to side the wall painting in 1652, lopping off Jesus' feet -- Taddei and colleagues turned to modern copies of The Last Supper, such as the one by Giampietrino, a painter influenced by da Vinci. Labels: fresco, Leonardo da Vinci's, Painting, wall painting(mural)
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WREXHAM, WALES - The world record-breaking effort to create the largest ever reproduction of the Mona Lisa went on exhibit at Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham, Wales on Wednesday 28th October. Members from the whole community have come together to generate their own version of the well-known Leonardo da Vinci painting that covers a massive 240 square metres: that's the dimension of 24 double-decker buses! 
Hundreds of citizens were involved, counting school children from Victoria Primary School and members of the Haul fan Centre, which offers a broad range of activities for people with disabilities, have given hours of their time to help artist Katy Webster complete the enormous task. The effort will be on demonstrate at Eagles Meadow for one day only. Shoppers will not only have the possibility to scrutinize every detail of Mona Lisa's famous expression up close, but will also be able to feel the monster piece, made up of 82 different disc squares.
Hope House, a aid organization that provides for fatally ill children through expert care, family support and fundraising events, will be benefiting from this effort of love, with those donating to the aid organization able to own their own small piece of record-breaking history. This is a huge cause; with the money rose going straight back into the restricted community to get better the lives of both patients and their families at Hope House, which Holly Willoughby is supporter of.
Eagles Meadow boss Kevin Critchley came up with the innovative idea to engage community groups in a thrilling art project. "Our Mona Lisa has a lot of advantages over the unique. It's a lot superior so she is to a great extent easier to see, admirers will not have to file to make her associate, there isn't any entry accuse to Eagles Meadow, and different the version at the Louvre in Paris you will be able to feel her!"
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts(MIA) showcases an exhibition " The Louvre and the Masterpiece", that has commenced on Oct 18th and will progress till Jan 10,2010. This ambitious traveling exhibition, which is the result of years of collaboration between Atlanta's High Museum of Art and the Musee du Louvre, covers 4,000 years of history and showcases some of humanity's great cultural treasures .It includes masterworks of sculpture, decorative arts, painting and drawing, which has been obtained from each of the famed French museum's eight collection areas. Though the big names of art history are definitely well represented, the works in this exhibition aren't essentially the museum's most famous pieces. While there are a number of familiar pieces, there are also a reasonable number of modest treasures, even some amazingly persuasive forgeries, in the bunch. This collection of work has been collected to promote conversation on the very idea of the masterpiece. Works are organized through the galleries to explicate three broad themes: the evolving historical and cultural definitions of what constitutes a "work of genius; issues of "authenticity and connoisseurship"; and the role played by changes in taste and scholarship over the years. Visitors are given the opportunity to appraise the merits of similar pieces side-by-side, and to see for themselves how curators have been fooled by and consequently unmasked fakes in their collection. Labels: MIA, Painting
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 An unidentified Bethesda woman submitted an 18th century oil painting of the Grand Canal in Venice that is supposed to be the work of an associate of Giovanni Antonio Canaletto.Canaletto's paintings usually command millions, and those by his acquaintances generally claim six figures.The painting was originally priced by the Chevy Chase auction house Sloans & Kenyon at between $6,000 to $8,000. The president of the auction house informed that normally with unknown work, they value it conventionally and set aside for the market to eventually drive the final price. 13 phone bidders, 9 of those who called from Europe, competed with live bids in the auction house. It sold to a bid in-house from an agent on behalf of a London buyer. The winning bid was $575,000, which was raised up to the final tally with a 19.5 percent buyer's premium. The earlier highest bid for a painting in the Washington area was $442,500 for "Hampstead Heath, Looking Towards London" by British artist John Constable, which was sold at the same auction house when it functioned under the name of C.G. Sloan & Co.The buyer for that painting was also from London. Labels: Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Painting
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 The Milkmaid-Vermeer's Masterpiece is to go on display in the US for the first time after 70 years.The painting will be revealed as a segment of an exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art next month.
The Milkmaid,dating from 1658, shows a milkmaid in a blue as well as yellow dress pouring milk from a jug into a bowl. The Milkmaid painting was lastly visible in the US at the 1939 World's Fair, in New York The painting will be loaned to the New York gallery next month by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
Around 5 other works by Vermeer from the gallery's own compilation will also go on display, as well as paintings by other Dutch painters. Vermeer is considered to be one of the supreme Dutch artists, nevertheless only 36 of his paintings survive today.
Johan Vermeer Vermeer always painted slowly and with great attention to detaiil, using bright colours, occasionally expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is specially well known for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
The exhibition commences on September 10 and continues until November 29.
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Millions of items ranging from cars to candy are covered by paint, plastic, varnish, chocolate, or some other type of coating solution. Painting or coating is used to make a product more attractive or protect it from the elements. The paint finish on an automobile, for example, makes the vehicle more attractive and provides protection from corrosion. Achieving this end result is the work of painting and coating workers.
Before painting and coating workers can begin to apply the paint or other coating, they often need to prepare the surface. A metal, wood, or plastic part may need to be sanded or ground to correct imperfections or rough up a surface so that paint will stick to it. After preparing the surface, the product is carefully cleaned to prevent any dust or dirt from becoming trapped under the paint. Metal parts are often washed or dipped in chemical baths to prepare the surface for painting and protect against corrosion. If the product has more than one color or has unpainted parts, masking is required. Masking normally involves carefully covering portions of the product with tape and paper.
After the product is prepared for painting, coating, or varnishing, a number of techniques may be used to apply the paint. Perhaps the most straightforward technique is simply dipping an item in a large vat of paint or other coating. This is the technique used by dippers, who immerse racks or baskets of articles in vats of paint, liquid plastic, or other solutions by means of a power hoist.
Spraying products with a solution of paint or some other coating is also quite common. Spray machine operators use spray guns to coat metal, wood, ceramic, fabric, paper, and food products with paint and other coating solutions. Following a formula, operators fill the machine's tanks with a mixture of paints or chemicals, adding prescribed amounts of solution. Then they adjust nozzles on the spray guns to obtain the proper dispersion of the spray, and they hold or position the guns so as to direct the spray onto the article. Operators also check the flow and viscosity of the paint or solution and visually inspect the quality of the coating. When products are drying, these workers often must regulate the temperature and air circulation in drying ovens.
Some factories use automated painting systems that are operated by coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders. When setting up the systems, operators position the automatic spray guns, set the nozzles, and synchronize the action of the guns with the speed of the conveyor carrying articles through the machine and drying ovens. The operator also may add solvents or water to the paint vessel to prepare the paint for application. During the operation of the painting machines, these workers tend the equipment, observe gauges on the control panel, and check articles for evidence of any variation from specifications. The operator uses a manual spray gun to touch up flaws.
Powder coating is another common technique for painting manufactured goods. Powder coating machines achieve a smooth finish on metal objects. Workers oversee machines that electrically charge the metal object so that it acts like a magnet. The object enters a powder room filled with powdered paint that is attracted to the magnetic object. After being covered in the powder, the object is baked in an oven where the paint melts into a smooth paint finish.
Individuals who paint, coat, or decorate articles such as furniture, glass, pottery, toys, cakes, and books are known as painting, coating, and decorating workers. Some workers coat confectionery, bakery, and other food products with melted chocolate, cheese, oils, sugar, or other substances. Paper is often coated to give it its gloss or finish and silver, tin, and copper solutions are often sprayed on glass to make mirrors.
The best known group of painting and coating workers are those who refinish old or damaged cars, trucks, and buses in automotive body repair and paint shops. Transportation equipment painters, also called automotive painters, who work in repair shops are among the most highly skilled manual spray operators because they perform intricate, detailed work and mix paints to match the original color, a task that is especially difficult if the color has faded. The preparation work on an old car is similar to painting other metal objects. The paint is normally applied with a manually controlled spray gun.
Transportation equipment painters who work on new cars oversee several automated steps. A modern car is first dipped in an anti-corrosion bath, then painted with the color of the car, and then painted in several coats of clear paint. The clear paint prevents scratches from damaging the colored paint on the car.
Most other transportation equipment painters either paint equipment too large to paint automatically--such as ships or giant construction equipment or perform touch-up work to repair flaws in the paint caused either by damage during assembly or flaws during the automated painting process.
Whatever object is being painted and in whatever method, the painting process is often repeated several times to achieve a thick, smooth, protective coverage. Labels: Painting
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Like her previous works, these paintings start with an abstract field of lively color and brush strokes and are finished with a silhouette that captures something essential and universal about childhood. Different from her previous paintings, Riordon isn't painting each individual background.
