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'After Every Winter Comes Spring' exhibition sheds light on ancestors' pursuit of hope
Korea Times 24 Nov 2020
The two centerpiece paintings are "Sehando" by Kim Jeong-hui, Korean National Treasure No ... The painting was created when Kim Jeong-hui was living in exile on Jeju Island. There are four trees and a snow-covered cottage in the painting ... However, the painting cannot move, so we tried to present the vividness of the dance," the curator said....
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Why the UAE's cities will remain timeless
The National 24 Nov 2020
Interestingly, Shakespeare never set foot in Italy and neither did Jean-Antoine Watteau, the 18th-century French painter, who was celebrated for his whimsical works. However, Venice still inspired Watteau to paint the celebrated Fetes Venitiennes or ”Venetian Festivals”, currently showcased in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh....
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India-China Cultural Relations Thrive in the Time of Border Conflict
Jacksonville Free Press 23 Nov 2020
Xu Fancheng was a Sanskrit scholar, who left China for India in the 1940s and lived in the erstwhile French settlement for 27 years. Fancheng, who painted and mastered Chinese calligraphy as well, had translated several Indian literary, philosophical and religious texts into Mandarin ... (Courtesy of Dr Bikash Kali Das) ... (Courtesy of Bivash Mukherjee) ... ....
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Wheat mural on downtown brewery contributes to city's public art scene
Grand Forks Herald 22 Nov 2020
The artwork, consisting of about 4,500, six-inch individually painted squares, is 22 feet wide and 45 feet tall ... The French artist Georges Seurat is renowned for this technique, which he demonstrated in his most famous painting, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”. “(Seurat) painted circles; we did squares,” Caya said....
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Observer Dispatch
22 Nov 2020
This Week in History: Utica parents want school for their daughters
Observer Dispatch
22 Nov 2020
1837, 183 years ago. Sons and daughters. Parents in Utica send a message that is loud and clear ... The Utica Female Academy is chartered and among its trustees are Horatio Seymour, John C ... Urania Sheldon is principal and among the courses being taught are English, French, Latin, chemistry, drawing, painting and music. 1920, 100 years ago. Church schools ... ....
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Henri Matisse: A jolt of happiness from a humanist painter
The Irish Times 21 Nov 2020
When Matisse painted it in 1939-40, France was paralysed by the so-called phoney war that preceded German invasion. Turned sideways, the blue, white and red canvas is a French tricolour ... Aragon said French Window at Collioure was “the most mysterious painting ever painted” ... “The mere act of painting made me interested in life......
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Best friends team up to write children’s book
Journal Review 21 Nov 2020
A retired marketing and communications professional now living in West Lafayette, Parks had more time for painting after the art shows she usually enters were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic ... Parks usually paints with oils, but for the book she switched to a French technique that’s a cross between watercolor and acrylic....
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‘Last Vermeer’ Paints A Satisfying Picture
Journal Online Chicago 21 Nov 2020
You may remember the classic film starring Burt Lancaster and Paul Schofield in the early 1960s, “The Train,” and the George Clooney film, “Monument Men,” about the documented recovery of many precious French, Belgian and Dutch paintings stolen by the Third Reich....
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Nazi-looted painting should return to OU, federal judge rules
The Oklahoman 20 Nov 2020
An Oklahoma City federal judge has denied a French woman’s attempt to keep a Nazi-stolen painting out of a Norman art museum ... District Judge Joe Heaton said efforts by Leone Meyer, 81, to keep the painting in France would violate her 2016 settlement with the University of Oklahoma ... OU called to court over Nazi-stolen painting Show more....
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Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020
The Los Angeles Times 20 Nov 2020
An American soldier stays in Paris after World War II to paint and falls in love with a French beauty ... A French maiden takes the place of her captured father in the enchanted castle of an accursed prince, and her love is his only chance to resume human form, in the Disney version of a French fairy-tale....
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Rare 'Tahiti' portrait by Gauguin set for French saleIt is one of only a handful ...
Deccan Herald 19 Nov 2020
The only known image of "Teurahaimata a Poturu," an oil painting of a woman against a blue background, is a black-and-white photo held by the Wildenstein French-American art dynasty, which was reproduced in a 1964 catalogue ... "Teuraheimata a Poturu" will be accompanied by new research and paint analysis as well as a conservation report....
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Rediscovered painting by Leonardo da Vinci's 'little devil' lover and collaborator sells for record €1.7m ...
The Art Newspaper 19 Nov 2020
A painting of Mary Magdalene recently attributed to Leonardo da Vinci's collaborator and lover Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salaì, sold at the Paris auction house Artcurial yesterday for €1.7m ($2m, with fees), a new record for the artist ... He carried on painting, too, and became a teacher at the workshop in 1515....
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