Queen paintings reunited at National Portrait Gallery
The works by Italian portrait painter Pietro Annigoni will go on display in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition includes works by artists Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol and Annie Leibovitz. One Annigoni work, from 1954-5 …
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Painting fixer-upper will make it a home
The easiest way to make a house a home is paint. Painting with your colors makes the house fresh, clean and yours. Do one room at a time. Like everything, there's a right way to do it. Here's how: — First, cover the floors with drop cloths.
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Painter loves watercolors
As a medium, watercolors are best known for very pale scenes, but they can make paintings that are as vibrant as any oil or acrylic painting, she said. Hanes-Nelson had a couple of brushes with watercolors before really diving into the medium.
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Museum 'within reach' of Manet painting
The painting by French impressionist Manet is on display in the Ashmolean Museum while it continues a public appeal to raise the £1m still needed. It has been exhibited only once since it was painted in 1868. Susan McCormack from the museum describes …
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American painter Evan Wilson known for attention to detail
It's not unusual for American painter Evan Wilson to spend as much time researching the details of a subject as he does actually painting it. For his Alabama Baptism pieces, for example, he spent eight years studying and planning before he put brush to …
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Basquiat Painting Brings .3 Million at Phillips Sale
By far the evening's brightest moment came when a 1981 Basquiat painting of a haloed, black-headed man with a bright red skeletal body, depicted amid the artist's signature scrawls, came on the block. Robert Lehrman, a Washington collector, …
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