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Read on to find out the former american president’s painting abilities, see the collection of 1000 years old Islamic art, an ‘En plain air’ event and major selling en-cashing millions. George W. Bush paints: Still life, self-portraits and portraits of other world leaders Former United States president George W. Bush has opened an art-exhibition of the paintings executed by him. It is a collection of 24 pieces, which mainly includes the leaders of the world, whom he met during his presidency from 2001 to 2009. The portraits include Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel and many others. It also includes a painting of his father on which he feels proud. All the paintings were made by looking at the photographs and former president has admitted […]

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A news of this week’s art-update values minimum of 10 million Euros and another news relates to the Nazis. Then after is a breath-taking attempt of making the historical paintings much more interesting with the help of modern 3D technology, which will make you think that every painting should be represented in that way to children in schools. Europe Gets its first Trick Art Museum – Unlike conventional museums Don’t know exactly what a trick art is? Here are some really good examples: See? People are interacting with the artworks heavily. Actually, that seems to be the whole point of the art works. Making people to interact with it and take some pretty, crazy shots of themselves. This is called Trick art. Now, imagine a […]

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This time Art Update includes the news of a recovered Rembrandt painting, a unique show which every aspiring artists should attend, a south African world record set by a painter, update on the recent Christie’s auction at Dubai and a Native American art work collection worth $3.8M. ‘A show all would-be artists should visit’ Peter Doig is a famous European artist, who broke all records for a living European artist when his painting, White Canoe sold for $11.3 million in 2002. He is a known artist now and enjoys pretty good reputation among the art community. His sale happened at the Sotheby’s. In recent art sale in 2013, his another painting The Architect’s Home in the Ravine made $12 million. So, we can’t just ignore him […]

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1. Hodegetria and Theotokos Hodegetria is a term for paintings of Madonna and Child. The word derived from Greek literally meaning, “she who shows the way”. Such old paintings, especially, before the renaissance were called Hodegetria. The term still exists in the art communities referring Madonna and Child’s painting. Theotokos is the Greek name for Mother Mary. The literal translation is “one who gives birth to god”. So, Hodegetria and Theotokos paintings interrelates in technical terms. Although, it consists Madonna and Child, Hodegetria paintings are a bit different than paintings of Madonna and Child in definition. They include paintings in which Madonna has carried the child Jesus and also points towards Him as the symbol of salvation. Here is out gallery of Madonna and Child […]

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The latest news has revealed some shocking sells, big exhibitions of Caravaggio and Jackson Pollock and a world record of the largest Mural Painting. Important Auctions and Selling Rossetti’s 1871 painting “Pandora” is about to get auctioned at Sotheby on 22nd May 2014 The 19th century big English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s oil painting from 1871, “Pandora” is about to be auctioned at Sotheby’s 22nd May 2014 at London sale of British and Irish art. Rossetti himself is a notable Enlgish artist and his other notable works has sold for millions of dollars in past auctions. (source: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/rossettis-magnificent-painting-pandora-goes-under-the-hammer-at-sothebys) Banksy’s 8 feet tall art-work is available for sale The Detroit art gallery, 555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios has officially declared to sell an 8 feet tall Banksy […]

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If you have seen our rich gallery of portrait paintings, you might have seen many different types of portraits. There are portraits which includes people with different angles, numbers and settings. These variety of portraits aren’t just random compositions of people’s profile. Each and every setting, size are aimed for a predefined effect. According to the person or a group of people intended to be portrayed, the painter evaluates the needs by the person/group’s social importance, visual features, etc. and decides what type of setting, canvas size, theme, color-pallet and type of depiction should be used for the most desired portrayal. To differentiate and understand the varity of portraits, down here we have gathered all the major possible types of portrait painting from the renaissance era […]

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Primavera by Sandro Botticelli includes total of 9 figures including 6 women, 2 men and a cupid (or putto). Here is a brief information on the each figure in Primavera. Mercury: A major roman god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld. Three Graces: Three Graces are goddesses of charm, beauty and creativity in Greek mythology. Roman mythology calls them as Charites. Venus: Goddess of Love beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity in Roman mythology (“Aphrodite” in Greek mythology). Cupid: The god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus, and is known in Latin also as Amor (“Love”). His Greek counterpart is Eros. Flora:  A goddess of flowers and the season of spring. Her Greek equivalent […]

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Still life paintings are the least ‘happening’ paintings among other types of paintings like landscapes, portraits or history paintings as they don’t give you a quick reason to look twice at it. But, if you know that many artists have used still life paintings purely as a way to deliver their messages to the viewer in symbolic ways, a whole new level of curiosity opens up for you in the still life in which the inclusion of every object is deliberate and nothing is random. Though, as reminded in the previous post of the series, not every artist intends to insert symbolic meanings. Most still life paintings are made for the joy of the art itself. But, many of them do intend to add symbolism. […]

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Sometimes a simple looking painting with plain objects could have deep meanings as artist might have intended to deliver the meaning with secret or open symbolism. Such symbolism becomes the center of the talk in any painting (most famously The Last Supper, which, allegedly, holds many symbolic meanings included by Leonardo da Vinci). From the classical era of arts, things, people and objects have been used to represent more than just the physical resemblance of any particular object. We have started a new series called “Symbolism in Art” to bring out the most unknown and forgotten use of symbolism of objects in arts. The first part is of mixed objects which is followed by symbolism in still life paintings. It will change the way you […]

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1. Iconography In any painting, the process of identifying people and things and also understanding the symbolic use of each object is collectively called as iconography of a painting. Any individual painting’s iconography is, obviously, very important to find out the included people’s identity and the intentions of object’s use in the scene. It also helps to understand the people and society’s beliefs during any contemporary times. Iconography isn’t only about the naming of characters and things. Apart from the basic identifications of characters and things, iconography is much more about finding out the symbolic meanings of things, the hidden symbolism of the art if the artists included something like that and finding out the connection of the painting with other historical things which relates […]

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