Vandals punch hole in Monet in Paris museum
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| Vandals have broken into the Musée d'Orsay and punched a hole in Claude Monet's "Le Pont d'Argenteuil", in the latest in a series of attacks on artwork in France. A surveillance camera caught a group of four to five apparently drunk people entering the Paris museum early yesterday morning. An alarm sounded and the group fled, but not before putting a four-inch tear in the painting, Christine Albanel, the French culture minister, said. No arrests have been made so far. After attempting to force open other doors, the intruders managed to get in through a back door, "even though it... |
Intruders seriously damage a renowned work by Monet at Paris' Orsay Museum
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| Intruders seriously damage a renowned work by Monet at Paris' Orsay Museum Cecile Almendros, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sun Oct 7, 1:43 PM ET PARIS - Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," the French Culture Minister said. A surveillance camera caught a group entering the museum, located on the Left Bank of the French capital along the Seine River and housing a major collection of Impressionist artists like Monet.An alarm sounded and the group left, but not before damaging the painting, an aide to... |
The secret of Monet's 'blurred' painting - he couldn't see what he was doing
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| Scientists believe they have discovered the secret behind the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of Impressionist painting. The artist is known to have suffered from cataracts but new research shows how much and for how long this could have had an effect and how it may have produced his distinctive style. Researchers recreated Monet's Water-Lily Pond as he would have seen it. The pond was the subject of a series of canvases which Monet exhibited in 1900 at the age of 60. |
Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| STANFORD, Calif. - Michael Marmor, MD, wanted to know what it was like to see through the eyes of an artist. Literally. After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their world and their canvases. Combining computer simulation with his own medical knowledge, Marmor has recreated images of some of the masterpieces of the French impressionistic painters Claude Monet and Edgar Degas who continued to work while they struggled with... |
Revealing the Monet of Pencil and Paper
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute “Étretat, the Needle Rock and Porte d’Aval,” a Monet pastel on tan paper from about 1885. Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute “Bank of the Seine,” a Monet pastel on tan paper from about 1869. Monet rarely mentioned his hundreds of drawings, preferring to be known only as a painter. Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteA study of sailboats and a harbor dating from the 1860s. Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteA pastel of the Waterloo Bridge in London from about... |
Recognize This Man? The Art World Doesn't
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| ...This unidentified bidder at Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday bid $95.2 million for a Picasso and $2.5 million for a Chagall. Yesterday that man's face was being sent by e-mail around the world, as art dealers and collectors frenziedly speculated on his identity. He ended up spending $102.7 million, for a 1941 Picasso portrait, "Dora Maar With Cat." ...an 1883 Monet seascape for $5 million...a Chagall, a 1978 biblical scene, for which the man paid $2.5 million But who was he? Sotheby's has refused to say. It is unclear whether he was acting for a client or buying... |
Monet's Water Lilies bloom again
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were starved of natural light and displayed in a building likened to an oversized garden shed. Now, after six years of renovation work delayed by archaeological mishaps, Claude Monet's giant Water Lilies are finally back on display at the Orangerie museum in Paris, in a space restored to match the French impressionist's vision of how his work should be hung.... Monet donated the canvasses to France as a "spiritual testament" after the first world war, when he was beginning to lose his sight. They were conceived... |
Thieves steal masterpieces from Brazil art museum
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Gunmen overpowered security guards and stole paintings by Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Monet from a Rio museum Friday, using the cover of a Carnival crowd to make their getaway, Brazilian authorities said. The thieves entered the Chacara do Ceu museum as a samba band performed on the street outside and stole Pablo Picasso's The Dance, Salvador Dali's The Two Balconies, Henri Matisse's Luxemburg Garden and Claude Monet's Marine. The paintings were considered the most valuable pieces at the museum but their exact value was not immediately available, said Thais Isel, a spokeswoman for Rio's Public... |
Brazil - Works of Picasso, Monet, Dali, Matisse and Monet stolen in robbery, tourists attacked
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| ALARM - Flights of works of Picasso, Monet, Dali and Matisse with the museum of Rio RIO OF JANEIRO - works of El Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet were flights Friday in a museum of Rio by a group of men armed which moreover attacked foreign tourists, according to the museum. |
ART Appreciation "class" #2 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| I had such fun with my first Art Appreciation "class" last week. Thanks for all your support. For this second “class,” I’d like to discuss the basic ideas behind Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Please continue to post more images that appeal to you; it’s great to have a continuing dialogue. Let’s look at Impression: Sunrise by Claude Monet (1840-1926). This was done in 1874, and when it was exhibited, the slurred comments by a critic about it being only “an impression” gave the name Impressionism to the movement. Nowadays, however, we appreciate how it moves away from detailed realism to give... |
What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:28:27 AM
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| A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 in order to aid Enron’s secret and immoral Taliban negotiations. The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent claims of a cover-up made by several mid-level intelligence and law enforcement figures. Their ongoing terrorist... |
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