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Thomas Kinkade Painter Of Beauty

Born in Sacramento California on January 19, 1958 Thomas graduated from High School in 1976 and began to attend University of California Berkeley and the Art Center of Design in Pasadena. Inspired and...

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Madonna and Child (Madonna Litta)   Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519     84

Top 10 Museums of the world-#1 The Hermitage

  This is my first hub in the series of hubs-Top 10 museums of the world. Museum #1. The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia I decided to write this series of hubs about top 10 best museums in the...

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Andrey Rublev  Holy Trinity (Troitsa)  1425-142773

Top 10 Museums of the world-#2 The State Tretyakov Gallery

  This is my second hub in the series of hubs -Top 10 museums of the world. Museum #2 The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia The State Tretyakov Gallery- also known as The National Museum of...

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Jack Vettriano's The Singing Butler - My Take

Twenty years ago, a struggling actress attended a photoshoot with other models in a London Studio. The shoot was for reference pictures for The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual, a collection to be used...

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"Nell Gwynne as St. Catherine", after Sir Peter Lely, by Chadwick and Spector Courtesy of the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA83

Contemporary Art : Museum Anatomy, Hidden Paintings on the Body

Museum Anatomy is my life-project. I have been working on it for the past 15 years with my collaborator, Chadwick Gray. The project stems out of a series of site- specific performance-based artworks we were...

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Thomas Kinkade "The Painter of Light" (Photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)83

Thomas Kinkade-The Painter of Light

It's difficult to remember just how long ago it was, but it's been a number of years ago now, that I stumbled upon an art gallery in Salado, Texas. It was a Thomas Kinkade gallery. At the time, I had never...

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Chocolate Body Paint

Chocolate Body Paint Products

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Art Heists, Art Thieves, and Missing Masterpieces

Who can resist the allure of an art heist? The very phrase sounds both seductive and whimsical, the stuff of black comedy featuring characters in cat masks, trundling painting out of an elegant chateau...

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ROBERT CAMPIN "MERODE ALTARPIECE" 1430 (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK)76

Renaissance Artists

The Renaissance may have been sparked through ideas expressed in the 14th Century by the Italian author, Petrarch, regarding a desire to see a revival of classical learning.  Renaissance artists led the way...

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Truly Abstract

1998, acrylic 1998, pen and pencil 1999, pencil 2008, acrylic 1996, acrylic 1995, oil and acrylic 2008, acrylic 1994, acrylic 2008, acrylic, and glue I think that abstract art for me is more of a means to...

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