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Christie’s May 4 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a total of $335,548,000. The auction was highlighted by the runaway success of Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for a record $106,482,500, breaking the previous world record for any work of art sold at auction. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection also achieved the highest total for a single-owner sale offered at Christies New York, surpassing the landmark sale of the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz in 1997.

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Modern art by Zhou Jun: http://zhoujun.eu – All pictures are copyright Zhou Jun 周俊 – Please visit the website for info, exhibitions (recently in Cologne, Germany) and better quality images of the ink paintings with themes like monochrome landscapes of the beginning of times, portraits (women, children and [old] men), flowers, animals (fishes, birds, etc.), also abstracts, very colorful or less so. Many contain Chinese calligraphy too. Be on the lookout for the painter’s name stamp in red. Seal paste is used to place it on a carefully chosen spot completing the composition.
BTW for Mandarin try: http://hensho.eu/chenglun

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Tefera Gedamu of ETV and Essey G Medhin
Modern Ethiopian Art and Identity
Traditionally and formally trained artists
Contemporary Ethiopian painting contribution
Contemporary Art and Ethiopian Artists
Modern Art and Ethiopian Modernists Art, 2001.

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Excerpt from the public program Painting Process/Process Painting, featuring artists Chuck Close and Carroll Dunham.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition, What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection.

Part 1 of 2; edited for time.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit http://www.moma.org/exhibitions.php?id=5139. For a full audio recording of the presentation as well as the conversation with Chuck Close, Carroll Dunham, and curator Anne Umland, please visit http://www.moma.org/audio or the ThinkModern podcast in iTunes.

© 2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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On November 7 and 8, 2009, Victor Beltran, Peruvian modern artist created 4 original artworks, while perched on a scaffold with four other artists, as the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh performed a world choral premiere of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition arranged brilliantly by director, Thomas Douglas. Beltran demonstrated his unique ability to conceptualize artistic images of vibrant colors and abstract shapes, reflective of the choral musics tones and rhythms. The audience gazed as Beltrans paintings emerged from the blank canvas, stroke by stroke, there was an evolution of new born works of modern art.

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On November 7 and 8, 2009, Victor Beltran, Peruvian modern artist created 4 original artworks, while perched on a scaffold with four other artists, as the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh performed a world choral premiere of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition arranged brilliantly by director, Thomas Douglas. Beltran demonstrated his unique ability to conceptualize artistic images of vibrant colors and abstract shapes, reflective of the choral musics tones and rhythms. The audience gazed as Beltrans paintings emerged from the blank canvas, stroke by stroke, there was an evolution of new born works of modern art.

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How to use tools like an oyster shucker and others for creating texture on your abstract painting on wood; learn this and more in this free online art lesson about abstract painting taught by expert David A. Clemen.

Expert: David Clemen
Contact: www.davidclemenart.com
Bio: David A. Clemen has a BFA in Fashion Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and a one year Graphic Design degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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Santa Barbara is famous for its summer fog. This morning the sun came up just as the fog was burning off..

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