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U.N. calls on France to help as virus imperils Fan Museum
Detroit news 21 Jan 2021
Anne Hoguet, 74, fan maker and director of the hand fan-making museum poses with a a wood roasted hand fan representing the falcon hunt, gouache painting on paper dated from 1880 in Paris, Wednesday, Jan ... The making of fans, traditionally with wooden sticks and painted paper leaves, has been considered sacred in many ancient cultures....
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Odessa American
21 Jan 2021
Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding
Odessa American
21 Jan 2021
There may be some surprise that France, a country that famously prizes its culture, has not done more to save the museum, especially given that the French public was so eager to help other cultural sites in danger, such as its burned-out Notre Dame cathedral ... The images painted on ......
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Covid-19 pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of foldingBailiffs are even threatening to seize ...
Deccan Herald 21 Jan 2021
There may be some surprise that France, a country that famously prizes its culture, has not done more to save the museum, especially given that the French public was so eager to help other cultural sites in danger, such as its burned-out Notre Dame cathedral ... The images painted on ......
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The Greeneville Sun
20 Jan 2021
Natalie Laux Featured In Arts Council Exhibit
The Greeneville Sun
20 Jan 2021
En plein air is French for “in the open air,” and describes a 19th century style of painting often associated with French impressionism ... I hadn’t created any work outside of school on ‘plein air,’ — painting nature outdoors, as you see and experience it, right then and there — since I had moved back to the States in 2003....
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How Pierre-Jacques Volaire perched his viewers on the rim of Vesuvius
New Statesman 20 Jan 2021
He came of age artistically, however, in 1755, as assistant to the celebrated French landscapist Claude-Joseph Vernet, who had been commissioned by King Louis XV to paint a series of pictures showing the ports of France (15 were eventually completed) ... “View of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 14 May 1771 painted on-site by the Chevalier Volaire.”....
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Stop What You're Doing And Look At These Velvety Melanistic Seal Pups
IFL Science 20 Jan 2021
In what’s thought to be something of a baby boom for Blakeney Point’s seal colony, England's largest gray seal colony, rangers have spotted several melanistic pups among the National Trust Reserve’s new arrivals this January ... It's thought approximately one in 400 gray seal pups are melanistic ... Paint me like one of your French pups ... ....
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From keystroke to brushstroke: where’s the art in modern work?
Open Democracy 19 Jan 2021
What is the point of painting people who are working? The question is provoked by Claude Monet’s canvass of stevedores unloading coal at Clichy on the Seine ... Déchargeurs is on show here at the French capital’s Musée d’Orsay, home to what must be the biggest range of Impressionist paintings anywhere....
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Paintings on village houses are an unusual attraction
China Daily 19 Jan 2021
Art galleries are not the only places where famous Western paintings can be exhibited ... Several wall paintings have been completed in the village ... Walk further and you'll encounter a painting of lotus leaves across the street from a real lotus pond just outside the village....
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The talented Ms Highsmith’s life in ‘club-like’ Switzerland
Swissinfo 19 Jan 2021
... grow straight up...” In A Long Walk From Hell, originally published in French in 1988, Patricia Highsmith painted a vivid picture of Italian-speaking canton Ticino, her adopted home since 1981....
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Woman turns boring old mirror into statement piece with Wilko and eBay bargains
Metro UK 18 Jan 2021
Posting on Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK, she revealed how she bought the appliqués on eBay and attached them to the frame before painting the whole thing in silver paint from Wilko ... ‘I painted a couple of coats, filled in any wood notches and sanded, painted the appliqués and glued them on....
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The Battle of Belleau Wood – Brutal WW1 Face Off that saw US Marines Come ...
War History Online 15 Jan 2021
From the painting by the French artist Georges Scott ... Belleau Wood, around 50 miles outside the French capital and near the River Marne, was packed with Germans. Alongside British and French troops, US Marines under the command of Gen James Harbord were sent to this complex battleground to drive them out....
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