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Thrift store shopper scores original drawing by Egon Schiele

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

Monet Money: landscape painting sells for $110.7 million

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 ...

Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art

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 ...

Chuck Rosenthal Art

09.21.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

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. ...

The Art Of Calligraphy

09.16.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

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 ...

The Art Of Calligraphy

09.16.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

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 ...