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ARTSPEAK: TURNING THOUGHTS INTO ACTION

Dawn 23 Sep 2018

Jacques-Louis David became a powerful figure during the French Revolution, using his paintings to define the values of the revolution, joining Robespierre’s Jacobites and even voting as a member of the National Convention for the execution of Louis XVI ... He started his career in politics as mayor of Tirana, and one of his decisions was to paint drab buildings in bright colours....

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The Post-Star 23 Sep 2018

Plein Air Painting workshops in Wilton. GANSEVOORT — The Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park will host a Plein Air Painting workshop from 9 a.m ... Made famous by the French impressionists, the idea of painting outdoors and capturing the landscape is growing in popularity ... Paint, take home a woods, water scene. NORTH CREEK — Take part in a Paint Night at Tannery Pond Community Center from 6.30 to 8 p.m....

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Reuters Odd News Summary

This is Money 22 Sep 2018

Robots can do many of the jobs previously performed by humans, but could they ever replace artists? A team of French entrepreneurs who believe so have written a computer algorithm that can create original paintings with some resemblance to works by Old Masters such as Rembrandt ... Advertisement. ....

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Opera Philadelphia disappoints with an uninspiring rendition of Lucia di Lammermoor

Philadelphia Daily News 22 Sep 2018

As the famous heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor hurtled toward her late-in-the-evening mad scene, she actually had nowhere to go but up at the Opera Philadelphia opening night on Friday. That's the exact reverse of what usually happens in this unorthodox but troubled centerpiece of Festival O18 ... Crowd scenes were directed in ominous slow-ish motion like something out of an enigmatic French symbolist painting ... Who is this guy? Answer ... ....

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Nail art inspiration: these Fashion Week manicures are so easy to DIY

Stylist 20 Sep 2018

Steady hands not needed. Cover nail with 2 coats of your nude colour of choice.Using a bright neon nail polish and thin nail brush, paint a thick line around the edges of the nail ... £4.99, Trixes 500 x French Nails Clear Acrylic Tips, amazon.com ... Think of these as the French manicure’s edgy cousin.Using your nude of choice paint a base coat.Cut a reinforcement ring, yes the ones in the bottom of your desk drawer, in half....

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Decorative and useful metal processing: Yenke Peddler antiques

Cleveland 20 Sep 2018

>. Welcome to the fall season, as the autumn of collectibles takes rein ... Tinware made its way into this country about 250 years ago, through the New England area ... Painted tole refers to a decorative process with sheet iron, producing a fine enamel-type coating similar to Cloisonne. Tole is a French word for sheet iron ... Painted colonial tinware was an imitation of the English and French versions, accomplished in a primitive fashion ... ....

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Art Valet: Not to miss art and the Menil reopens

The Houston Leader 20 Sep 2018

>. Notice about last week’s print edition. The reception and book release of the photo-biography, “John Ross Palmer ... If you thought you missed it, get this on your calendar now ... > ... to 7 p.m ... > ... The Fabiola Project consists of more than 450 reproductions of a lost 1885 painting of 4th-century Roman Saint Fabiola by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner ... Why did so many people, mostly amateurs, choose this one image paint? It’s just wild....

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Victor Hugo’s Hidden Drawings: Was the ‘Les Mis’ Author Also One of the Greatest Artists ...

New York Observer 20 Sep 2018

The 19th-century French Romantic was ... In fact, it’s said that Delacroix, the father of French painting whose influences can be felt in everything from Coldplay album covers to the Statue of Liberty, wrote once to Hugo telling him that, on the basis of the drawings he’d seen, Hugo would have “outshone the artists of their century.” High praise indeed....

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Auburnpub.com's gallery listings for Sept. 20-26, 2018: Robert Niedzwiecki and more

Auburnpub dot com 20 Sep 2018

Here's where you can catch art and other exhibits in the Cayuga County area over the next week.. Aurora Historical Society and Village History Center, 371 Main St., Aurora; (315) 246-1130 or visit auroranewyork.us; Open 7-8.30 p.m. Tuesdays and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. • "Aurora Ink!" The Printers of Aurora, 1805-2018" ... • Wood carvings and paintings by Samantha French ... Abstract oil and acrylic paintings by Christian LeBrun and John Price....

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10 hidden treasures to seek out when visiting Louvre Abu Dhabi

The National 20 Sep 2018

It might seem odd to suggest that a painting by Yves Klein, one of the great European post-war artists, is a “hidden treasure” ... Untitled Anthropometry is an imprint of the bodies of the artist and his wife painted in International Klein Blue, a pigment created and trademarked by Klein in 1956, which he used to coat the bodies of his subjects before using them as “human paintbrushes” ... Japanese and French cultures explored side by side....

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REVIEW | ‘A Simple Favor’

The Daily Tribune 20 Sep 2018

Hilarious version of ‘Gone Girl’. Director Paul Feig, known for female-driven comedies such as Bridesmaids, Spy and The Heat, has a way with women ... And Feig seems to be having a ball doing it; highlighting the quirky traits, the little eccentricities, of any personality type ... She enjoys dry martinis, dances to French pop music and has a painting of her nether regions hanging in her sleek and stylized modern home ... 3.5 out of 5 stars....

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Take a moment to see ‘Birds of the Bible’ at CRC

Chelsea Update 19 Sep 2018

Birds of the Bible, a painting by Catherine McClung. (Chelsea Update would like to thank Lisa >French for the information and photo in the story.) ... This magnificent work took the artist more than two years to complete – the culmination of 14 years of Bible study and 40 years of bird-watching, photography and painting ... “God put it on my heart to paint all the birds together,” says the artist of her project....

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Our Gourmet: More pub than French cafe but still trs bien

Union Leader 19 Sep 2018

Situated on Opera House Square in the circa-1860 Oscar Brown Building, the Taverne’s interior boasts high ceilings, lots of exposed brick with flecks of paint here and there that speak to more than a century of use and reuse, and touches of French decor that point to the owners’ background in France (which is mentioned, but not really described, on the restaurant’s website)....

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