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Two Paul Cezanne art works discovered Two works of Paul Cezanne, the known French artist who holds the record of the most expensive painting to date, have been recently discovered during a conservation work in Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation museum. Though, these are newly found works by Cezanne, but not on new canvas. These works are unfinished sketches, one being a graphite sektche and another being a watercolor. Both were found on the backside of another Paul Cezanne paintings. The two paintings whose backs were secretly carrying these two sketches are called, “The Chaine de l’Etoile Mountains” (which has the graphite sketch) and “Trees” (having the watercolor sketch). Full Story Paint Nite – Big help for painters seeking good locations Paint Nite is a social painting […]

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In the first part of Jargons of the Art-world, we learned about 10 technical terms of the art-world. This second list counts ten more technical terms of art-world. 1. Ubiquitous Gaze In old horror movies, there would be at least one scene in which a portrait of a suspicious woman in a dark room with a little light focusing its eyes is there. The scene is supposed to create horror. I have never felt horror in those scenes but at least this art term Ubiquitous Gaze made me realize why directors often shows paintings as an element of horror. Because, in those portraits, the eyes of the woman (or man) seems to be following us. Regardless to weather we are in room, the eyes always follows […]

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