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Dakar Biennale: From red swimmers to floating teapots

Joy Online 25 May 2022

“I absorbed everything in my surroundings and that manifested in some paintings that were a bit more fluid and expressive,” he said ... She was particularly inspired after spending several days with an elderly woman who would go on to become the voice behind her paintings ... As was the work of French artist Louisa Marajo ..

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Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light

The Observer 23 May 2022

Artistically, Pissarro’s commitment to outdoor landscape painting and long-term interest in French rural life would be the bedrock of his work, though as his health failed his through-the-window street views pushed him towards the more commercially successful end of the movement’s output.

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Poem of the week: 1963 by Meg Cox

The Observer 23 May 2022

It has proper French tree lined streets and stag beetles ... and foreign, hung with paintings ... because I’m painting my toenails and drinking real coffee. My book Bonjour Tristesse (in French) is open beside me ... Like several of the author’s “youthful-memory” poems, this one has a French setting.

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Abe Lincoln back on center stage in Berkshires

Times Union 23 May 2022

Along with Rockwell’s and French’s Lincoln-related work and memorabilia, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs, ephemera and cartoons by dozens of other artists influenced by the monument’s outsize emotional and symbolic impact ... The Memorial was French’s most significant work, Hassler said.

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Athlete of Week: Nonnewaug’s Samantha Faull

Republican American 23 May 2022

Nickname. Sami Class. Senior Social media name. Instagram, samifaull Week performance. Won the 300 hurdles (47.65) and the high jump (5 feet) to help Nonnewaug girls track team to the Berkshire League championship. Funniest sports moment. High jumping with Adam B Worst sports injury ... Perfecting form ... Math City ... Painted Pony Dessert ... French fries Car ... .

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WOLFS Gallery in Beachwood provides panoramic glimpse of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s one-time annual ...

Cleveland 22 May 2022

The painting at WOLFS is a highly polished exercise in the manner of the French Nabis painters of 1890s Paris, who emphasized intimate subjects painted with flat shapes and patterns influenced by Japanse Ukiyo-e woodblock prints ... The painting evokes a mood of serenity and grace.

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Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center hosting unique exhibits

The Express-Star 22 May 2022

The current exhibition, John Newsom’s Nature’s Course, features 31 large, colorful paintings both realistic and fanciful ... Interestingly enough, it was the French artist Edouard Manet, whose painting of race horses charging headlong toward the viewer (The Races at Longchamp, 1866) provided a prompt for this painting.

photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris

Devon Ross, from right, Alicia Vikander, producer Vincent Macaigne, Jeanne Balibar, Nora Hamzawi, Vincent Lacoste, director Olivier Assayas, Fala Chen, Antoine Reinartz, and Lou Lampros pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Holy Spider' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 22, 2022.

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Group invades Cannes red carpet to highlight violence towards women

The Observer 22 May 2022

According to Agence France-Presse, the group are members of the feminist group Les Colleuses ... The award-winning French documentary maker Raymond Depardon could be seen taking photos ... Her waist and legs were covered in red painted handprints. The woman is part of the French group SCUM, which describes themselves as “radical feminist activists” ... .

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MEMOIR: SADEQUAIN, MY FRIEND

Dawn 22 May 2022

On two particular visits to our house, Sadequain made two paintings sitting at our dinner table. He did each painting in three or four hours. Both paintings are my most cherished gifts from him, signed by him. Once my wife asked Sadequain to paint a portrait of her ... Sadequain travelled to Europe by ship and carried with him five or six big paintings.

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Behind the Art: Why is Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa so famous?

Indian Express 22 May 2022

There have been speculations that Leonardo created more than one version of the painting ... The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has dated the painting back to Leonardo’s lifetime ... French art critics began using it as a model of Renaissance painting techniques in the mid-19th century ... Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa painting.

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Pre-Impressionism, or formative years of Impressionism?

Times Argus 21 May 2022

However, this defines Impressionism in general, and none of the five still-lifes in the show are painted in the Impressionist style ... A painting by the Cincinnati Museum’s permanent collection, a work by French painter George Braque, “reflects the Impressionists’ resounding influence in the 20th century,” the curators claimed.

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Topless woman storms Cannes Film Festival red carpet to protest against Russian rapes in Ukraine, ...

Yahoo Daily News 21 May 2022

The topless woman had Ukraine's national colors and "stop raping us" painted on her body. French feminist group SCUM says she was there to denounce sexual violence in Ukraine ... A woman with the Ukrainian national colours and "Stop raping us" painted on her body at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022.LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images.

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CTAC announces Paint in the Park winners

The Duncan Banner 21 May 2022

The Chisholm Trail Arts Council (CTAC) hosted its sixth annual Paint in the Park on May 14, during which they gave away $350 in prizes ... “Plein air is a French phrase meaning ‘in open air’ and describes the process of painting a landscape outdoors, basically a style of painting created outside in natural light,” Reeves said.

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Drinks and foods Russian aristocrats considered ‘improper’ (PICS)

Russia Beyond 20 May 2022

By the time of Catherine II, every self-respecting Russian aristocrat felt compelled to have their own French live-in cook.  ... Gradually, the French trend began to be diluted with other European cuisines - with every decade, the Russian aristocracy discovered something else European.

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A post-apocalyptic royal rave

Indian Express 20 May 2022

UPSC CSE Key – May 20, 2022. What you need to read today. On trial MVA govt as BJP, Centre take on each other in courts ... Yet San Diego is a long way for a French brand to go to paint a picture of a heroic world that may emerge from the shards of the old one, collaging its bits and pieces together ... Tags ... Flamingos paint Navi Mumbai pink in large numbers.