Posts Tagged ‘fine art’
The reviews are in! Mitch O'Connell's Trump "They Live" billboard, which many Boing Boing readers help to fund, has won wide praise among the intellectual elite who discuss fine art on Facebook. Mitch collected the reviews and posted them on his blog. Here's a selection:
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A shopper at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore thrift shop in Queens, New York bought a pencil drawing that turned out to be a previously unknown piece by Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Jane Kallir, director of New York's Galerie St. Etienne and author of Schiele: The Complete Works, authenticated the work. From
This Claude Monet landscape painting just broke a record by selling for $110.7 million dollars at auction.
Above, the painting in question, Monet’s “Les Meules,” image courtesy Sotheby’s.
From Bloomberg's report by Katya Kazakina:
A sun-drenched landscape by Claude Monet fetched $110.7 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday, setting a record for the Impressionist ...
Generative Adversarial Networks use a pair of machine-learning models to create things that seem very realistic: one of the models, the "generator," uses its training data to make new things; and the other, the "discerner," checks the generator's output to see if it conforms to the model.
Rutgers comp sci prof Ahmed Elgammal runs an ...
AICAN is a program designed by Rutgers' Art & AI Lab that's basically an AI artist. After looking at nearly 500 years of art history, it learned the ins and outs of artistic aesthetic, and created some pieces of its own. Who knows, maybe AI art wi... ...
Though landscapes are not his most common subject for paintings, Chuck Rosenthal excels. From Clearwater, Florida, the artist more often paints people and still life, but his landscapes are definitely worth seeing. ...
Chuck Rosenthal paints many subjects in glowing oil paintings and pastels. Probably best known for his still lifes, Mr. Rosenthal also does some stunning landscapes and very interesting studies of everyday people in everyday situations that make you wish you were there. ...
From the start of the civilization, writing styles have been greatly developed, including tools and materials. During the prehistoric period, stones and sticks were used as tools to clay tablets for cave paintings. And there were reed pens for writing on papyrus, quill pens for parchment, which are similar to metal pens and ball pens ...
From the start of the civilization, writing styles have been greatly developed, including tools and materials. During the prehistoric period, stones and sticks were used as tools to clay tablets for cave paintings. And there were reed pens for writing on papyrus, quill pens for parchment, which are similar to metal pens and ball pens ...
Andre Junget is a freelance designer, who is an advanced major in the Traditional, Nature and Architectural Illustration field. ...