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Art Reflections

January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 by admin

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Art can make you think - and in some cases has been known to change lives. Below are Posters, Artwork & Memes, reflecting on Life and the Art World. This selection is great for discussions and creating other art around their themes.

Ron Husband: The Story of Disney’s First Black Animator

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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by Alex Reif | First published Jul 21, 2016 Ron Husband was the first African American Disney animator? Most Disney fans will answer “Floyd Norman” and until last week, I would have said the same thing. However, I am wrong (and you probably are, too). While Floyd Norman did work…

El Anatsui Artwork sold for £728,750 at Sotheby’s

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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El Anatsui Title of work - EARTH DEVELOPING MORE ROOTS Estimate 650,000 — 850,000 GBP LOT SOLD 728,750 GBP at Sotheby's Date sold: 16 MAY 2017 El Anatsui B.1944 Medium: aluminium bottle caps and copper wire Size 320 by 338cm., 126 by 133in. Created in 2011 Earth Developing More Roots by…

Introducing Serge Tiroche – Art and Finance

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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Art fund co-founder and former banker Serge Tiroche is a successful alumni from the American University of Paris. Serge Tiroche ’92 was born in Israel in 1966 into a family of art dealers: his father was a gallery owner in NY, Tel-Aviv and Paris. He grew up in Jaffa and,…

Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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Rayvenn Shaleigha D'Clark achieved an MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts 2018 In a culture where the dimensional restrictions of figurative art are increasingly being pushed to its outer limits on the new virtual platform afforded by the internet and digital technologies, Rayvenn considers herself to be a sculptor from…

The wonder that is Kelvin Okafor

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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First published on Thu 31 Jan 2013 12.50 GMT Kelvin Okafor's portrait of Tinie Tempah. Kelvin Okafor's drawings may look like photographs but are they art? Well of course they are. If photography can be art then Kelvin's work is Art x 2. The 27-year-old's meticulous depictions of celebrities stand…

Ben Enwonwu MBE black Mona Lisa’s work sold for $1.7 million in 2017

December 31, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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A 1974 painting of a Nigerian princess Adetutu “Tutu” Ademiluyi by renowned Nigerian artist, Ben Enwonwu MBE, which had been lost for nearly four decades, and was found in December has been sold at Bonham’s auction house in London for US$1.7 million. Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE, also known as…

What is Art?

October 27, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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Here are 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?” Compiled by JUDITH HERMAN, JUNE 27, 2014 To Plato, art was imitation of nature, but in the 19th century, photography took over that function, and in the 20th, abstract art overturned the whole notion that art was about representation. And…

What Makes Art Art?

October 27, 2018October 27, 2018 by admin

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Published: February 20, 2011 Art 1030: Art Appreciation Instructor: Steve BishopEssay One Josalyn Cook1/26/2011 What Makes Art Art? Art is an object or piece of work that brings one pleasure. Art is also something you see or feel and you cannot even begin to describe the ways you like it…

Why Painting and Art can make you Happy

October 27, 2018January 31, 2019 by admin

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Exercising our creativity can give us an outlet from our daily routines, helping us express emotions and boost our happiness levels. Here, writer and artist Juliet Davey, talks about what painting means to her… by Psychologies This was not my lecture hall, this was not my professor. It was 20…

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