One of Paul Cezanne’s best-loved paintings has sold for £160 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art.The Card Players, one in a series of five works depicting French peasants playing cards, was bought by the Gulf kingdom of Qatar.
The ruling royal family beat two of the world’s top art dealers to win the masterpiece.Qatar has purchased a Paul Cézanne painting, The Card Players, for more than $250 million. The deal, for the post-impressionist masterpiece sets the highest price...
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Artworks created by cats to raise money
Stray cats in Australia are now being found a new loving home, all paid for with paintings that would make Picasso proud.Mini the kitten is just one of those who are creating artworks by walking across canvas with paint on their paws to help raise money to save other abandoned pets.
Louise Clayton and daughter Tegan Ellis, 21, from Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, allow their cats to express themselves with paint, creating rescue cat art to help pay vet bills for the many animals they have...
Army Photography Contest – 2007 – FMWRC – Arts and Crafts – Heading to Safety
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Army Photography Contest – 2007 – FMWRC – Arts and Crafts – Heading to Safety Photo By: SMSGT Munnaf Joarder To learn more about the annual U.S. Army Photography Competition, visit us online at www.armymwr.com U.S. Army Arts and Crafts History After World War I the reductions to the Army left the United States with a small force. The War Department faced monumental challenges in preparing for...
How is Skyword After a Year?
Image via Wikipedia I've written for Skyword for about a year now, and my last review of this awesome client was lost when I transitioned my old blog to my new one. So, I figured I would give an in depth review of my past year with them. Be warned; this company is not for everybody. It takes a lot of hard work and devotion to marketing your stories, but I can honestly attribute 90% of my success to Skyword, and I am happy writing for them -- that's more than I can say about the rest of the...
List of 7 Must-Visit Fashion Museums!
If you love traveling and enjoying spending most of your time visiting museums, then this article was created just for you.Although you love seeing the paintings and sculptures in museums, but some of my favorite museums display another kind of art – "clothes". From couture outfits straight off the runway to Victorian lace gowns, studying these pieces can tell me / you, just as much about a culture and time period as a painting. And imagining where the dresses have been – swirling on the...
Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures
Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures This internationally prizewinning volume now appears in its second, revised and expanded edition. Since the first edition was published in 2005, it has been adopted as a textbook at many universities. Organized into chapters on “Raw Materials/Building Materials (Modules),” “Building Components (Elements),” “Building Methods (Structures),” and “Buildings (Examples),” the book now includes a new section on translucent materials and an...
Blank Male Mask
Blank Male Mask Includes one mask. Talk about a complete white out! No one will have a clue to your identity when you wear one of our Blank Male masks. This mask is sized to fit most teens and adults, attaching with an elastic strap. This blank male mask also makes a great starting point for you to decorate it with anything you can think of! Makes a great activity for Halloween Parties!! This is the mask in high demand due to the group, “Jabbawockeez” wearing them on America’s Best Dance...
Hollywood Bachelor Pads
Hollywood Bachelor Pads From living rooms with stripper poles to showers with commanding views of the city, Los Angeles’s wealthy bachelor rock stars, actors, producers, and financiers have established a slightly different and eclectically exciting bar for the designers who serve 26 of them. For instance, the bedroom can be a very, um, significant feature. Rock star Dave Navarro has been quoted as saying he “wanted clothes to literally fall off a girl” when she came into the room. 300 vivid...
Morris Graves: Flower Paintings
Morris Graves: Flower Paintings This visually stunning book will be a revelation to admirers of Northwest visionary artist Morris Graves (b. 1910) who know him chiefly through his profoundly original, metaphysically charged paintings of chalices, birds, snakes, and other small creatures. Graves’ national reputation began with the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “Americans 1942 – 18 Artists from 9 States.” Throughout his long career as one of America’s most highly regarded painters of the...