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Bob Ross Video Game

AloneOssifer — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:23:47 -0800

A video game "based on Bob Ross' creative, unique and easy to learn painting techniques and TV show properties" is coming to the next-generation Nintendo system.

Giovanni Boldini, the Master of Swish

matteo — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:04:41 -0800

In 1872, influenced by the Impressionists at the Exposition Universelle, Italian painter Giovanni Boldini permanently settled in Paris. There, he quickly developed a reputation for his elegant depictions of fashionable society women executed with bold, fluid brushstrokes that made the model appear to be thrown onto the canvas -- the "Master of Swish". By the turn of the century Boldini had become the most sought after portrait painter of the 'La Belle Epoque'. More inside.

Mimmo Rotella's decollages

matteo — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:20:13 -0800

The World in Pieces. During the early 1960s, Mimmo Rotella (who just died in Milan at age 87) went around Europe collecting strips of advertising posters that had been pasted over and torn away many times. He also tore at posters (warning: big file) himself in a rebellious act of desecration to create the works he called decollages. More inside.

Martin Beck

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:36:35 -0800

Martin Beck's Last Ten Years: How interesting to be able to look at a painter's work year by year: patterns and even stories seem to develop, disappear and change before (and after) our eyes. Are there any other good chronologically-arranged artist's websites out there? Or do painters habitually avoid them to prevent the detection of similarities and obsessions?

Ghost Signs

dobbs — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:01:16 -0800

"Before the invention of modern billboards, sign painters used to paint advertisements and company names directly onto building walls. These gradually fading painted signs are known as ghost signs."

Turner Worldwide

monkey closet — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:46:49 -0800

Turner Worldwide. The Tate's new online Turner project brings together works from over 100 collections, including about 500 previously 'lost' pieces.

DIY Mondrian Machine

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:56:48 -0800

Ton Mondrian Is Even Worse Than Mon Mondrian: Use the machine to see how you square up to the Master. [Shockwave required; first link via Bifurcated Rivets.]

Van Gogh's Letters,

jragon — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:59:44 -0800

Van Gogh's Letters unabridged & annotated. Searchable by topic or keyword.

Arsewoman: Art? Sure. Great art?

adamgreenfield — Sun, 08 Dec 2002 20:17:07 -0800

This is the text of a painting called "Arsewoman in Wonderland," shortlisted for the UK's Turner Prize 2002. Fiona Banner's painting consists entirely of a textual narration of a porn film; specifically, a porn film dedicated to an extended exploration of anal sex, with an "Alice in Wonderland" theme. (Apparently, dwarves are also involved.) The Turner, which comes with a £20,000 purse, ostensibly recognizes the best British art. Now, I love a good conceptual dig as much as the next guy, but does Banner's painting really challenge the way we "compartmentalise private and public behaviour," let alone represent the best the British art world has to offer?