The World of Art.

[RBF]

RBF's sig gallery/sig request

here are a few of my sigs, use them if you like them....probably would only be for bengals fans though.

need one? request it here

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3784/dukedy2.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3696/tjsigku6.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4572/leonhallfo6.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4466/jjown5.jpg

[Bengalrocker]

here are a few of my sigs, use them if you like them....probably would only be for bengals fans though.

need one? request it here

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3784/dukedy2.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3696/tjsigku6.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4572/leonhallfo6.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4466/jjown5.jpg

Love your work RBF. Glad to have ya here.

[Bengalrocker]

I have a request RBF.

Can you make me a sig with:
1. Andre Caldwell
2. Carson
3. PBS
4. Bengal B
5. GFX Mod on it.


Can ya do that for me? Kinda a test. ;)

[RBF]

haha i think i can come up with something....


just gfx mod in txt?

[Bengalrocker]

haha i think i can come up with something....


just gfx mod in txt?

Yea, kinda like a "techno" text or something.

Thanks again

oh and can ya make it 620x175? thanks

[RBF]

yep, i'll go ahead and start on it.

[Bengalrocker]

yep, i'll go ahead and start on it.

Thanks, cant wait to see it. :D

[RBF]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5351/brreqik5.jpg

[D.J.55]

I was wondering if maybe you would do a sig with D.J. Williams and Eddie Royal from the Broncos on it? I would like something eye catching. If the possible. Thanks for the time.

[RBF]

I was wondering if maybe you would do a sig with D.J. Williams and Eddie Royal from the Broncos on it? I would like something eye catching. If the possible. Thanks for the time.
yea dude no problem. i'll have it done sometime today

[D.J.55]

yea dude no problem. i'll have it done sometime today

Thanks alot man.

[RBF]

hey what txt do you want on it if any? i am thinking about how i can do it and it just hit me what your username stands for, so wasnt sure if you still wanted that in the sig..

[D.J.55]

Maybe graffiti? How was you thinking? D.J.55 stands for D.J. Williams ,because Im a huge fan of his, But I also like Eddie Royal, which is starting to become my favorite player.

[RBF]

ok i can do graffiti. do you want it to say "D.J.55"?

[D.J.55]

Yea that would be cool. It doesnt have to be big tho unless you make it that way. I pretty sure anything you make I'll be happy with. I see alot of your sigs around here and they all look really good. So I trust in your ability.

[Mojo]

Link to some of my work:

http://www.thelordoftheboards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42

If you want a request post it here, or just to comment on my work too!

[RBF]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2954/dj55sigpy2.jpg

[D.J.55]

Dude that is freakin awsome. Thanks a ton!

[D.J.55]

Quick question whats the URL to it? Actually never mind got it. Thanks again man.

[RBF]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2954/dj55sigpy2.jpg

just right click, hit properties, and its the location under "image"

[D.J.55]

Thanks a ton man.

[RBF]

no problem, that was actually my first sig request...other than bengalrockers "test"

[Bengalrocker]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2954/dj55sigpy2.jpg

Not bad RBF

[Bengalrocker]

no problem, that was actually my first sig request...other than bengalrockers "test"

The test was good.

I give you a Solid B. Better font and some different brushes and itd be an A+
Your definently getting there.

[D.J.55]

I would say thats pretty good for a first actual request.

[RBF]

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2754/dj55sigmi4.jpg

if you dont mind, use this url instead. all the screens i saw the image on were on a white background and i didnt catch the white strip on the left until i posted it. heres the edited one. sorry

[RBF]

The test was good.

I give you a Solid B. Better font and some different brushes and itd be an A+
Your definently getting there.
thanks.

yea i am having trouble finding different brushes, i keep finding the same 8 or 9 sets and there are only 3 or 4 that i like so i definitely need more variety.

[Mojo]

Very nice on the test and the request.
You'll come along nice in the near future if you ask questions and stuff and expand your knowledge on Photoshop (if thats the program you use lol).

Keep it up!!

[Bengalrocker]

thanks.

yea i am having trouble finding different brushes, i keep finding the same 8 or 9 sets and there are only 3 or 4 that i like so i definitely need more variety.

www.deviantart.com

type in the search: GIMP bruhses, HUGE variety

[RBF]

thanks!

[Bengalrocker]

thanks!

Anytime.

[eoxy]

I would say you are really good for how long you've been doing it
About the same as BR this far into him doing it. Maybe a little bit crisper and they would be amazing

[RBF]

gracias

[bengals23]

Great work you got there.

[Mojo]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/Carson-Palmer.gif

Any changes let me know!!

[Bengalrocker]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/Carson-Palmer.gif

Any changes let me know!!

awesome thank you. BTW its just Bengalrocker. ;)

[Bengalrocker]

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj142/Bengalsrocker0985/Signatures/phillipssig.jpg

[RBF]

me like

[Bengalrocker]

me like

Me like too. lol

[Ozsreturn]

Me like too. lol

I more than just like it...

[Mojo]

Pretty decent.
Text a slight more blending color wise, but pretty good.

Like I said I bet if you find a good tut that you can follow 100% and understand (there are some that are like WHOA! wtf do I do haha) and feel comfortable it'll help you lots!!
Keep up the great work though!

[Bengalrocker]

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj142/Bengalsrocker0985/Signatures/herron.jpg

[Matt]

If you could make me something with Crosby in it, I'd appreciate it. If you want pictures or something else pm me.

I like your ray whitney one btw

[Mojo]

I have a Crosby one already made, but if you want a different one let me know:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-1.jpg

Thats the only I have.
But I'll make a different sized one and all if you would like.

BTW welcome to the forum!
=]

[Matt]

I have a Crosby one already made, but if you want a different one let me know:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-1.jpg

Thats the only I have.
But I'll make a different sized one and all if you would like.

BTW welcome to the forum!
=]

Thanks and I like it but any chance you can change the colors to more a more blue or white tone or would that look terrible? Thanks a lot.

[Mojo]

Thanks and I like it but any chance you can change the colors to more a more blue or white tone or would that look terrible? Thanks a lot.

I'll just create a whole one!
LOL
Should have it by next week (monday or so) the latest

[Matt]

I'll just create a whole one!
LOL
Should have it by next week (monday or so) the latest

Lol ok sounds good.

[RBF]

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1330/hall2ij3.jpg

my latest one, just finished it up

[leafs123]

i know how to make sigs and stuff but i dont know how to make a video sig...

can you make me a sig with this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaPWljA5po

from 0:26 to 0:35???

thanks a bunch man!!!!

and this pic of Grabovski in it:

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/83380361.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19303D83A05122D23695B37D6C480E559A2 5A5397277B4DC33E

and the leafs logo in the background...


thanks soooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bengalrocker]

Uh-Oh! Mojo getting busy, haha. ;)

[Mojo]

LOL yup!!

leafs123 I'll see what I can do.
The picture wont show up either.

[flyersfan9319]

do u think u could make me a coburn + carle of the flyers sig??

[leafs123]

LOL yup!!

leafs123 I'll see what I can do.
The picture wont show up either.

oh ok so then you can put in this pic if you didnt get another one by now!:

http://leafs.hockeyanalysis.com/files/2008/11/grabovski04.jpg

and can you like overlay this in the background:

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/071U8yW6axddk/610x.jpg

like put this pic in the back and the other in the front... ;)

thanks a bunch

[Mojo]

Aight man I'll see what I can do with that.
I'll start it once I get the GIF.

[Mojo]

do u think u could make me a coburn + carle of the flyers sig??

Sure!
Just post pictures (if you want any specific ones).
It'll be after the leafs123 request

[Mojo]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

URL:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

Any changes, just post and I'll see what I can do

[nicole]

WOW!!! awesome!!!

[Bengalrocker]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

URL:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

Any changes, just post and I'll see what I can do

Great work again Mojo.

[flyersfan9319]

Sure!
Just post pictures (if you want any specific ones).
It'll be after the leafs123 request

um ill will c what i can do and post um, i love ur crybsy sig

[Mojo]

Thanks guys!!
Alright ff9139 thats cool, just post them here soon lol

[Matt]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

URL:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/SidneyCrosby-2.jpg

Any changes, just post and I'll see what I can do

Looks Good! Maybe put Sidney Crosby in there or something?

[Mojo]

Looks Good! Maybe put Sidney Crosby in there or something?

LOL
******
I knew I forgot something.
I'll do that tomorrow before I start leafs123's banner

[Matt]

LOL
******
I knew I forgot something.
I'll do that tomorrow before I start leafs123's banner

Okay, Thanks a lot for doing this by the way

[bonefunny]

think you could do one of Lucic when hes throwing his arms up in the air after the fight against mike komisarek....or one of chara

[leafs123]

cant wait to see how the sig turns out! :)

[Mojo]

think you could do one of Lucic when hes throwing his arms up in the air after the fight against mike komisarek....or one of chara

Yep just post any picture(s) you want.
Including the one your talking about.
Thanks!

[RBF]

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3060/denny.jpg

[ZekeDog]

Hey RBF, I'm looking for a Sig with the Redwings and the 11 Stanley cup Championships they have. I would be grateful if you could come up with one for me. Peace

[leafs123]

this is where you can show off the new sigs you make!


here are a few of mine: (i have like 50 so i cant post em all, ill only put in my best)



http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/nabby112.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/schennnnneeerrrr.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/lombardi11.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/justin1.png

[leafs123]

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/daniel.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/sanjosesharkssig-1.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/shanedoan-2.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/alexander.png

[leafs123]

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/martty.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/notdoneyet111.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/timthomasbruins-1.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/paveldatsyuk111-1.png

[leafs123]

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/shanedoan-1.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/50cent-1.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/morreleafs-1.png

ok so these are like my best and i have like 50 of em...

[leafs123]

yea i forgot about these

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/sens%20stuff/foligno.gif

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/requests/toskala.gif

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/my%20sigs/nucks-1.png

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/my%20sigs/domitucker.png

[leafs123]

yea and this was my first ever sig!: (i find it was pretty solid! ;))

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/goleafsgo35/my%20sigs/allin_banner_450_1501.jpg

[leafs123]

post one here and i will get to it and finish it in less than 20 minutes after i see your request! :P

and you guys have seen my best sigs in the OFFICIAL SIG SHOWROOM so you know what i can do! ;)

[bonefunny]

here ya go ...and thanks alot
http://www.playerpress.com/uploads/Image/lucic.jpg

[Mojo]

Thanks!
Will work on it when Im done w/ the other two!
LOL
Or next depending on what Leafs123 wants me to do

[bonefunny]

thanks alot i apperciate that or how ever thats spelled lol

[Mojo]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/BraydonCoburn.jpg

URL:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/BraydonCoburn.jpg

FlyersFan9319
There is your Coburn banner.
If you want a seperate Carle banner I'll try it, but pictures are hard to find (big enough ones).
So thats why I offered the avatar instead.
Up to you

[flyersfan9319]

thnx thats amazing

[Mojo]

FF9319's avatar:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/CarleAva.jpg


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/CarleAva.jpg
Any changes let me know!!

Next up is leafsfan123's request.
Bonefunny I should get to your request next week the latest!

[leafs123]

FF9319's avatar:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/CarleAva.jpg


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/CarleAva.jpg
Any changes let me know!!

Next up is leafsfan123's request.
Bonefunny I should get to your request next week the latest!

yes!!!

i cant wait man! :)

[Mojo]

Sorry for the delays
I really have not been in PS this week.
I should have your stuff started by next week.

leafs123 I still do not have your GIF.
Im just going to do a normal banner.
bonefunny yours will be right after leafs123 request is done.

I've also been trying new stuff so its taking a while to find strengths in them and such.

[Mojo]

I am about to start on my hw but I should get to Leafs123's request.
Its just gonna be a banner, I have not recieved the GIF yet, but I'll put it in when Im done w/ the banner and when I get it.

Bonefunny yours will be done by monday hopefully.

Sorry for delays!

[leafs123]

I am about to start on my hw but I should get to Leafs123's request.
Its just gonna be a banner, I have not recieved the GIF yet, but I'll put it in when Im done w/ the banner and when I get it.

Bonefunny yours will be done by monday hopefully.

Sorry for delays!

its no problem man! ;)

[leafs123]

http://i40.tinypic.com/2v3kh7s.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/i76681.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2epoevm.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/219136c.jpg

[Mojo]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/MikhailGrabovski.jpg

Leafs123 here is your request
I dont have your GIF sorry about that
I will see whats going on tomorrow.

Any changes let me know!!!

Bonefunny I'll be getting to yours tomorrow or Sunday

[Aaliyoda]

I'm looking for color codes. I'm new and I just started a website and I'm just wondering if maybe somebody here has any idea? Thanks!

[Mojo]

I personally do not use it.

I dont know if anyone else here does....

[Mojo]

Bonefunny's Request:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/MilanLucic.jpg

Here ya go man!
Any changes let me know.
sorry for the delay

[noizeboi]

Hey Mojo...:)

I'm just new here, but I was hoping you could design me an avatar? I was hoping you could do an animated avitar, much like you did with your Brian Campbell sig, but just the animated avatar in the midddle. I was hoping you could do one of Pavel Kubina, possibly hitting someone, or scoring a goal? Whatever clip you could find would be fine. Lemme know what you think?

~Thanx~

noizeboi

[noizeboi]

just seeing if my sig works.

[Mojo]

noizeboi:

8. Must have AT LEAST 20 posts to request for sig and/or avatar.

http://www.thelordoftheboards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Good work on those ground rules.

[leafs123]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/MikhailGrabovski.jpg

Leafs123 here is your request
I dont have your GIF sorry about that
I will see whats going on tomorrow.

Any changes let me know!!!

Bonefunny I'll be getting to yours tomorrow or Sunday

it looks great!

but just one thing... can you make the surrounding colour blue instead of brown?

and the size 350/125? (so it would be the size of my others)

thanks! :)

[Mojo]

I'll see what I can do about the color, size will be a tricky one but should be simple. lol

[leafs123]

I'll see what I can do about the color, size will be a tricky one but should be simple. lol


i am awkwardly confused! :P

alright thanks again

[Bengalrocker]

Bonefunny's Request:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/themojo13/MilanLucic.jpg

Here ya go man!
Any changes let me know.
sorry for the delay

Nice.

[Aaliyoda]

Well, which program is good to use? What do you guys use?

[Bengalrocker]

Why Wisconsin?

It's for the sig tourney and I have always loved Beckum.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/uclick/cl090411.jpg

[Arrow]

Piece #1: water color, pen and digital media

I did Irshad caricature about a year ago and she used it on her blog. She's a muslim reformist, a lesbian. She is against the current unequal treatment of men of her faith towards women, and highly criticizes the death penalty to gay people of the Arab world. www.irshadmanji.com.

There are, however, some curious things about her. For instance she claims she does not have sex with her girlfriend. How is that? Kidding. But seriously, I have no idea. It's not important anyway. She's as courageous as a minx and is dubbed as Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare.

Anyway, I would share some of my caricatures soon. This is a start. The refusenik, Irshad Manji as my first entry (talk about politics and religion).



http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2487/irshadmanji.jpg (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/irshadmanji.jpg/)

[Arrow]

Piece #1: water color, pen and digital media

I did Irshad caricature about a year ago and...

This is supposed to be a couple of years ago. I made this in 2007. My apologies.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/uclick/cl091017.jpg

[Arrow]

Well we do enjoy the latest video card for our computer to give us highly defined and enhanced viewing options. But when's the last time you checked how's your pair of peepers doin'? Then let's check if it's the graphic's card or it's our eyes who got some weird glitch.

Let's see which hue part of the spectrum where our discrimination is low. Follow the link and take the Munsell Hue Test!

http://www.spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk

[nicole]

Your score: 984
Gender: Female
Age range: 20-29
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520


should i do this again?--- i feel kinda---idk how 2 say it...

[Arrow]

Your score: 984
Gender: Female
Age range: 20-29
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520


should i do this again?--- i feel kinda---idk how 2 say it...
lol, Nic, did you just poke your eyes with your pencil? That score is too low. Or did you press get score at once?!? You should arrange the colors according to the shade so that it looks like a bending prism. Perfect score is zero.

Anyway, it will improve. Just always help your eyes with exercises, and such.

Actually my score is 9 and my eyes are hurting now. Ouch. Got to buy new video card, rofl.

Make it look like this, for example the first line:

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4561/hue.jpg

[nicole]

http://i28.tinypic.com/20922ox.jpg

[Arrow]

Feature your favorite anime or cartoon character and the one you'd wear in a costume party.

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab4/_Arrow/tenoh.jpg

Sailor Uranus

I was a little girl and I gasped when I first saw her. Her real name is Haruka Tenoh (天王 はるか), and she likes car racing. She's sizzling hott, even though she's just a cartoon. And, what more, she's OUT!

Uranus Planet Power Make up!

My Fave Quote of her:
She's falling off the building and Sailor Neptune was trying to pull her up.

SN: You've been eating too much sweets these days.
SU: I don't listen to that kind of talk outside of bed.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Want to know whats going on in the art world?
Post all the news, trivia and tidbits of artistic information here!!
******


Singer is seen in ‘Thriller’-era jacket; artwork could fetch $500,000 or more

LOS ANGELES - Christie's auction house will offer up a portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol in New York on Nov. 10.

The auction house said Friday that the 30-by-26-inch portrait should fetch an estimated $500,000 to $700,000. It's one of a small group of Warhol silk-screened images of Jackson created in 1984.

The painting depicts Jackson smiling in a "Thriller"-era jacket, with squiggles of red and yellow in his hair.

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/ap/014d2a35-5772-45fb-b760-b200970aa783.widec.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33460000/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more/

[nicole]

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii219/nixxers666/huetest1.jpg?t=1256975555

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii219/nixxers666/huetest2.jpg?t=1256975622

[Arrow]

Anime Trivia
List of poker-faced anime (males)

Hei of Yuyu Hakusho
Heero Yuy of Gundam Wing
Kaede Rukawa of SlumDunk
Ulquirra of Bleach
Hisoka of Hunterxhunter
Shino from Naruto
Vegeta of Dragon Ball Z
L of death note
Irumi of Hunterxhunter
Kaname Kuran of Vampire knight
Tezuka of Prince of Tennis
Karasuma Ooji of school rumble
Kazuya Shibuya of Ghost hunt

[nicole]

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*writes it down*

[Arrow]

lma0, ignore that. It was a wrong code. I changed it already.

I'm sucha woos today.

[nicole]

i feel like i cant help with teh anamie thing...jamie knows a bit of it though --

[yuki]

sohma yuki - fruits basket ;-)

[nicole]

discuss!!!

[jamie]

Nope

[nicole]

spiderman = webs and spiders and lame stuff


superman = awesomeness and lois lane

[jamie]

yeah but spiderman has MJ and if your into that sorta thing aunt mae

[nicole]

mj?? micheal jackson? i dont get it...wtf...

[jamie]

mj?? micheal jackson? i dont get it...wtf...


Mary Jane Watson is spidermans wife/girlfriend


http://www.turgentesdeficcion.org/wp-content/uploads/images/128923-mary-jane_400.jpg

[nicole]

omg so what?? spiderman don't have this beeatch in the trunk!!!

-W-XtWob9wo

[nicole]

lolol --- not only that but like superman has a wicked tag line!!!

its bird - its a plane - its superman!!! faster than a seeeding bullet!!


what duz spiderman have?? ez reader comics---FAIL!!

[nicole]

http://aim.search.aol.com/search/redir?src=image&s_req=14426c7af49f886e&s_cq=superman+logo&s_cid=105265446071057477848531508087942592939&s_cim=1258459626850&s_cu=http%3A%2F%2Fwinniesylvester.files.wordpress. com%2F2009%2F07%2Fsuperman-logo.jpg&s_cd=ImgDet&s_cm=image_details.M.xml

http://s4.tinypic.com/2jb75s_th.jpg

heers some perpective!!!!

[Meathead]

I prefer lois lane over mary jane... ta hell with models.... i like my women pretty but not over done :D..... also superman flies.... x-ray vision..... heat vision...can freeze with his breath which means you know its winter fresh ladies;)..... vulnerable to anything on earth :D.... come on total package.... spiderman would shoot a web at superman and he would laugh break the webbing and say... that tickled :P

[nicole]

YAAA XRAY VISION...spiderman dusnt even have a car

[Meathead]

yea id use xray vision all the time... :D... and superman doesnt have a car either..but who needs one when you can make yourself light as air

[Arrow]

I can lambast both. Or I can praise them. Both are modern myth and comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges. They both have their own beauty and setback. What was the crystal supman is afraid of? And superman can't have a baby with Lois Lane because if he ejaculates into her, his semen will escape out of Lois's head killing her instantly.

While spider man is the gentler one, he had a lot of fainting record. If the writer doesn't know what's next, he faints. Damn.

Both are supposed to be heroes though and people in their area worship them like hell but one wrong move, they are on the hitlist. Weird world.

[Arrow]

http://www.gifmania.co.uk/comic/Spiderman/Jokes/spidey92_cartoon1.gif
Just watch closely, he will faint.

[jamie]

And superman can't have a baby with Lois Lane because if he ejaculates into her, his semen will escape out of Lois's head killing her instantly.



Yeah but he could totally do wonder woman but who wants that?

[nicole]

And superman can't have a baby with Lois Lane because if he ejaculates into her, his semen will escape out of Lois's head killing her instantly.


faster than a speeding bullet

[Arrow]

faster than a speeding bullet
Yeah but he could totally do wonder woman but who wants that?

Precisely. Poachedsteaks! Now I wonder if I should wear a scuba gear if I'd sleep with a supergirl.

[nicole]

^^^ hahahaa

[Meathead]

mmm wonder woman......... ok anyways superman isnt AFRAID of kryptonite :P... he just gets weak around it due to the radiation it emits... he has picked it up plenty of times, knowing what it will do to him.. simply cause it was good for humanity :D...

[nicole]

...like---whats spidermans enemy??

[$onic Ryder]

Honestly, there both just horrible characters. But if I had to pick one of them, I'd pick Spiderman because he has a girl named Mary Jane. Even though Spiderman movies are also horrible.

[Meathead]

spiderman has lots of enemies...but they are all pretty weak.... i think my favorites are green goblin venom and dr. octopus

[$onic Ryder]

spiderman has lots of enemies...but they are all pretty weak.... i think my favorites are green goblin venom and dr. octopus

Yeah your right. Green Goblin was also my favorite, I also wish the bad guy would kill the good guy in every movie. Good guys are overrated.

[nicole]

i remember when spiderman faught godzilla

[jamie]

i remember when spiderman faught godzilla



that movie was awesome. Best spiderman movie ever.

[Meathead]

WHOOAAAAA OHHH they say he's got to go GAH GAH GODZILLA

[nicole]

srsly---no more shinannigans---spiderman loses in this thread and superman pwns

i dont know why this is continuing


btw ---spiderman masturbates too much anyways

[jamie]

btw ---spiderman masturbates too much anyways




haha ewww I just hope somebody is not standing underneath him when he's doing that. They'd get all sticky

[nicole]

hahaa a web

[leighanneslittlehorns]

MoMA exhibit shows more than 700 pieces from director’s films, projects

NEW YORK - Director Tim Burton has become a household name thanks to his highly stylized and hugely popular movies such as “Batman” and “Beetlejuice.” While fans may say his films are works of art, few would expect to see Burton’s imagery displayed alongside Monet’s “Water Lilies” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” However, from now until April, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is doing just that, with a major career retrospective of Burton’s art and movies.

On display are more than 700 pieces — paintings, sketches and sculptures, including rare concept art — from Burton’s films and abandoned projects. However, this is not an average trip to the museum. The first thing many visitors will see is a 21-foot inflatable statue called “Balloon Boy,” a blue Frankenstein-esque creature with multiple eyes and an oversized head. The entrance to the gallery has the feel of a mad funhouse, or a fun madhouse, as guests walk through the mouth of a demented monster into a hallway inspired by Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/091123/x_30_burton_091123.300w.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34066688/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more/

[leighanneslittlehorns]

NEW YORK -- Nude, yes. Lewd, no.

A New York judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges Monday against a model who posed for a nude photo shoot at a museum while visitors looked on.

Kathleen "K.C." Neill was arrested in August during photographer Zach Hyman's shoot in the arms and armor department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Defense lawyer Thomas J. Hillgardner says Neill did nothing indecent while posing in an institution full of depictions of nudes. He says she was making art and he noted court rulings saying public nakedness isn't necessarily lewd.

Prosecutors say they aren't sure they could prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt.

The museum had no immediate comment. Hyman calls the charges "completely absurd."


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/1348645.html

[ЄмВаьє♫]

[B]If its a nude museum..what is the big deal? I mean maybe if she went to Toys R Us but seriously.....lol/B]

[nicole]

some people get all messed up seein nude people...


its just plumbing---i dont get the fuss

[leighanneslittlehorns]

$150 million worth of paintings include Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne

ROME - Italian tax police say they have seized a secret stash of masterpieces from the disgraced founder of a collapsed dairy company.

Police in Parma seized 19 works belonging to Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi from the basements and attics of three apartments. Among the masterpieces were paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Manet and Degas. Authorities estimated the total value at more than $150 million.

Police showed some of the paintings to journalists near Parmalat's headquarters Saturday.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34287880/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more

[leighanneslittlehorns]

White House performances, millions in funding set the administration apart

In his first year, President Barack Obama has marshaled the largest infusion of cultural funding in decades — despite a few stumbles.

Though still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes this president could transform cultural policy, funding and arts education for years to come.

"I think and feel he's very much in the John F. Kennedy tradition — he embodies the humanities, essentially," said Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa whom Obama named chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. "That doesn't mean a conservative leader can't also. Abraham Lincoln was a great conservative who embodied the humanities."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34317564/ns/politics-white_house/

[leighanneslittlehorns]

This stunning photograph, taken using high speed flash photography, captures a hummingbird in mid-flight.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01542/bird_1542766c.jpg
Pat Hunt uses high-speed photography to capture stunning images of hummingbirds mid-flight Photo: PAT HUNT / SOLENT NEWS


The birds flap their wings a staggering 90 times per second making them far too fast for a normal camera and flash.

But photographer Pat Hunt managed to effectively freeze the wings and highlight their extraordinary detail by using high speed lights which flash for 1/25,000 of a second.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6802154/High-speed-photography-used-to-capture-hummingbirds-in-mid-flight.html

[leighanneslittlehorns]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Earth's polar extremes may seem monochromatic and hostile to life, but a new book shows they are teeming with colorful creatures.

"Antarctic" includes some 180 images, each spread across two large-format pages. It aims to elicit an emotional reaction from wildlife enthusiasts -- and anyone concerned about the environment -- by showing animals in often intimate close-up, contrasted with panoramas of the icy landscapes they inhabit.

Despite the title, about half the pictures are from the northern Arctic. None were altered, but photographer Michael Poliza occasionally tricks the eye.

One image seems impossible, unless the penguin aimed a camera at its own feet. In fact, Poliza took the shot, then flipped it upside-down.

Poliza has published two photo books on Africa, and aims to do one for each continent. He spoke with Reuters about the Polar regions, how digital photography has changed his craft, and why shooting in Europe is a challenge.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B82EQ20091209

[belle]

BRUSSELS — Too bad for Rene Magritte, his museum really is a museum.
The 20th century surrealist who famously painted a pipe with the comment "this is not a pipe" finally has his own temple, in the heart of his home city of Brussels. But, like the artist himself, the ultra-classic museum front gives away little of the tricks that lie inside.

But check again: Some of the windows reflect clouds patterns other than those of Belgium's unpredictable skies. Surely, the man with the look of an accountant and the fantasy of a wide-eyed eccentric would have chuckled. More than 40 years after his death, still nothing is quite what it seems.

Over half a century after his naked bodies doubling as faces scandalized a bourgeois public, the Magritte museum was embraced by the high establishment. Belgium's King Albert II and Queen Paola were on hand to officially open it.

Much of Magritte's work has spread far from Belgium: It is displayed in the finest museums around the world. But enough of his prodigious output remains in Belgium to make the new museum a must-stop station along surrealism's tortuous road, from Andre Breton and Max Ernst to Salvador Dali.

"Magritte is not only one of the most important artists of his generation, but he has also had an enormous influence," said the curator of the collection, Virginie Devillez.

That influence spread far beyond high art.

The Rolling Stones 1970s hit "Angie" was sold in some countries with a cover of showing a naked woman posing as a face. The band Oasis made a video featuring men with bowlers and umbrellas floating in the sky — another unmistakable echo of the Belgian master.

"Today he is still influencing an entire young scene of painters," said Devillez.

Nothing, though, made him more famous than a rudimentary painting of a pipe. Unlike other museums, where works of art are often explained in the somber tones of expertise, the Magritte museum found tape of the artist himself explaining the image.

"This is not a pipe. I do not see any contradiction in this image; because a depiction of a pipe is still not a pipe," he tells the audience.

To push the point home, the museum is displaying a successor drawing with the subtitle, "This continues not to be a pipe."

Magritte made a career of painting contradictory images, as if to give viewers whiplash. Now, it can all seem middle-of-the-road. But over half a century ago it was anything but conventional to depict a fiery train slamming out of a rustic fireplace, or show showers of clerks in bowlers raining down on Belgian streets. Nor, for that matter, to have huge apples trying to burst out of claustrophobic living rooms.

Such work turned him into one of the great painters in Belgian history, with fame to match the brothers Van Eyck, Pieter Breughel, Peter Paul Rubens and James Ensor.

Belgium's complex politics and convoluted decision-making, which keeps the peace between 6 million Dutch-speakers and 4.5 million Francophones, is often compared to a Magritte painting.

"In spite of himself, Magritte is very Belgian and he has the profile, the sense of humor and demeanor which is reflected in all his works and which makes him a distinguished Belgian," said Charly Herscovici, head of the Magritte Foundation.

Magritte was born in 1898, and during his slow rise to prominence he had to design wallpaper and work in advertising to fund his early artistic digressions.

He got involved with the early surrealists, but he was able to develop a style of poetic fantasy that he combined with excellent draftsmanship to become of the genre's greatest masters. He had his most productive years in Brussels and by the time he died in 1967, he had had exhibits in many of the world's greatest museums, including New York's MoMA.

The 200 works in the Magritte museum's collection encompass all periods of Magritte's artistic life, on top of voluminous archive material. The museum, sitting close to other Belgian icons like the royal palace and Parliament, hopes to draw more than half a million visitors a year.

.....i went , and its so amasing, ...
belle

[Melancholia]

I quite like fiddling around with making siggys and stuff but right now i'm stuck using picnik.com or fotoflexer.com which both only offer pretty basic editing tools.

Any suggestions for slightly more advanced (free preferably) sites I could use or stuff that I can download?

[Melody]

As far as I recall, Photoshop had a free online editor although I now cannot find it.

I don't know if this will help you out any; but here's a link to a site called Avery that has had good reviews for being a basic (but not too basic) online editor:
http://aviary.com/tools/phoenix#

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Smaller models include lenses that reach from 8x to 12x optical zoom

By Tim Moynihan
These compact cameras offer much more versatility than the average point-and-shoot does, thanks to powerful lenses that reach from 8X to 12X optical zoom.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3S: It does the work for you

Optical zoom: 12X (25mm to 300mm)

Price: $350 usf


The almost fully automated Lumix DMC-ZS3S doesn't offer much in the way of manual controls, but it's a very good pocket megazoom camera for casual photographers who would rather let the camera do the work instead of tinkering with the settings themselves.


For anyone seeking a powerful pocket camera that can also shoot HD video, the DMC-ZS3S is a top-notch, easy-to-use option.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/091215-PanasonicLumixDMCZS3S-hmed-133a.hmedium.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34436905/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

[SinAngel]

Or just go for endorphin :x

[leighanneslittlehorns]

By Andy Dolan

Last updated at 7:28 PM on 17th December 2009

When camera phones came on to the market seven years ago many wondered if they would take off.

Nowadays the gadgets are as common a part of modern life as the call-only mobile phones they have largely replaced.

So much so that professional photographers Phil and Rachel Hibberd have launched the UK's first ever course in mobile phone photography.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/17/article-0-07A1BCE4000005DC-986_468x652.jpg
How to be... snap happy: Professional photographers Phil and Rachel Hibberd have launched the first mobile phone camera course.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236706/UKs-mobile-phone-photography-course.html

[belle]

^^lol, rediculous...

[leighanneslittlehorns]

THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY

December 23, 2009–July 12, 2010

In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. Taking his lead from currents in Soviet Russia and at the Weimar Bauhaus, the designer Jan Tschichold codified the movement with accessible guidelines in his landmark book Die Neue Typographie (1928).

Almost overnight, typographers and printers adapted this way of working for a huge range of printed matter, from business cards and brochures to magazines, books, and advertisements. This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA’s rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics. They represent material from Tschichold’s own collection, which supported his teaching and publication from around 1927 to 1937.

Organized by Juliet Kinchin, Curator, and Aidan O’Connor, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.

http://artnews.org/files/0000046000/0000045902.jpg/Jan_Tschichold.jpg


www.moma.org

http://artnews.org/gallery.php?i=613&exi=19061&The_New_Typography

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Outraged by the social effects—perceived or real—of skinny female models in advertising, politicians in France, Britain and Israel are calling for varying degrees of regulation. In Israel, the Knesset is considering a proposed law that would ban the use of underweight models, as well as the practice of using Photoshop or other software to narrow the waists of models, according to a report in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.

French lawmakers are considering a law to require advertisers to label images that have been retouched, and in Britain, Liberal Democrats have called for a ban on airbrushing in advertising that creates “overly perfect and unrealistic images of women” in ads targeted to children, according to a Guardian report. Meanwhile, Britain’s Committee of Advertising Practice, which regulates advertising in the UK, is considering an academic report that recommends a ban on Photoshopped ads meant for girls under 16.

Coinciding with those proposals is an uproar over two grotesquely Photoshopped ads from a certain well-known fashion designer. And why don’t I name him? Because I wonder whether the ads were intentional—and released quietly in out-of-the-way places so the designer could convincingly say, “Oh, this was just a mistake” the second the ads went viral on a wave of feminist outrage. If so, I refuse to give the designer the free publicity he may be angling for.

http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/12/should-we-ban-photoshop-in-certain-fashion-ads-.html

[Melancholia]

Yes! The pressure these adds puts on young girls to look 'perfect' is just to much. Unhealthy and underweight looking models shouldn't be used.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Thanks to some inspiration from Trey Ratcliff after interviewing him for the This Week in Photography podcast, and reading his book A World in HDR, I decided to see what all the fuss is about and give this technique a try for myself.

I grabbed my Nikon D700, a 14-24mm lens, and a tripod, and drove up to San Francisco to see what I could capture. The obvious place to shoot from was the Golden Gate Bridge, I wasn’t trying to create “art” per say, but rather to gather some pixels with which to try out this technique… so the GG was just as good of a spot as any.

I set the camera to auto-bracket five f-stops (+2 and -2) — I realize that I could’ve gotten similar (or the same) results with just three exposures, but then this was all an experiment, and I had a blank 16GB CF card in the camera after all… so what was a few more megabytes? Oh yea, I was shooting in the raw file format.

http://frederickvan.com/images//SF_HDR-1-2.jpg

http://frederickvan.com/2009/12/the-golden-gate-bridge-in-hdr/

[Melancholia]

The water in that photo is amazing.......such a shame about the dayglow orange man :\

[coloradocowgirl]

Wow!! Great picture...

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Viewing the retrospective of Richard Avedon’s fashion work at the International Center of Photography this summer, I and other women-of-a-certain-age were struck by one thing: In the Forties and Fifties, fashion models were mature and cosmopolitan.

In sharp contrast to the skinny teens and skin-bearing specimens in today’s fashion spreads, models like Suzy Parker, Dorian Leigh and Dovima strode through the streets of Paris or commanded attention at chic cafes. Dressed in New Look suits or evening gowns, they looked serenely confident in their worldly sophistication.

Actually, they weren’t so worldly. Dovima was only 20 when, wearing an evening dress, she took command of a herd of elephants in her most famous photo. Suzy Parker (born in San Antonio in 1932), wasn’t much older than today’s waifish models when she started playing the part of a Parisian sophisticate. Avedon’s fantasies weren’t achieved through Photoshop, just great styling, lighting and clothes that were elegant rather than overtly sexy.

http://pdnedu.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341ce76f53ef0128767d2339970c-800wi
Photo: Richard Avedon. Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall, dress by Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1956, © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/12/when-fashion-models-looked-like-women.html

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Earlier this month The Aftermath Project announced the winners of their two $20,000 grants for 2010, as well as the finalists.

Polish-born, Italy-based photographer Monika Bulaj won for her project “Afghanistan: Not Only The War,” which will explore several “hidden worlds” within the country, including the culture of Sufism and other minority religions.

American photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier was awarded a grant for his project, “Wounded Knee: Generations Endure a Massacre,” which will take into account both the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and the 1973 uprising, during which armed American Indians reclaimed the Wounded Knee land and held it during a 71-day standoff with Federal authorities.

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/pdn-

[leighanneslittlehorns]

The image that won this year's Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is at the centre of an investigation following claims that the wolf featured in the picture was 'trained'.

The annual competition bans non-wildlife from featuring in submitted photos.

The winning photographer, José Luis Rodriguez, had entered a photo of an 'Iberian wolf' jumping over a gate.

A spokeswoman for the Natural History Museum, which helps organise the contest, told Amateur Photographer today: 'We are looking into details of the allegations and are hoping to reconvene our judging panel next week.'

She added: 'The allegation is that a trained animal model was used in the photograph.

'Using a trained animal model would break the competition rules and we take any such allegation very seriously.'

The claims are revealed in Finland-based magazine Suomen Luonto.

The spokeswoman said the judges will consider the information they have received and report to the co-owners of the competition, BBC Wildlife Magazine.

She declined to comment further, saying only that a decision on the matter will not be announced until the new year.

José Luis Rodriguez, who lives in Spain, could not be reached for comment this morning.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is billed as the world's most prestigious photography competition of its kind.

This year it pulled in a record 43,135 entries from 94 countries.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Wildlife_Photographer_winner_accused_of_using_anim al_

[Sublime LIME]

it sucks that he broke the rules
Disney almost always uses trained animals, often putting them in abusive situations to get the shot

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Two television channel operators, Animax Broadcast Japan and Imagica TV, will collaborate in a joint public-relations campaign this February in Japan.

Animax Broadcast Japan runs the anime-centered Animax channel, while Imagica TV runs the cooking channel Foodies TV. Among other activities, the two companies will jointly host classes and contests for creating bentō (Japanese box lunches or meals) in the form of anime characters. By televising and streaming videos of these activities, Imagica TV hopes to raise awareness about Animax's channel among its viewers, and vice-versa.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-03/animax-channel-imagica-cooking-channel-to-join-forces

[belle]

The Franco-Belgian cartoonist Tibet, creator of comic strips Ric Hochet and Chick Bill heroes died Saturday at age 78....

Born 29 October 1931 in Marseille, Gilbert Gascard alias Tibet was installed in Belgium with his family at the age of five years, according to the website specialising in comic strips Le graphivore also relayed his death information. According to the site, Gilbert Gascard becomes Tibet because his elder brother - 18 months - more easily 'ti-' pronounces bet as Gilbert.

He has created in the 1950s the Chick Bill Cowboy (close to 69 albums since 1954) and in collaboration with the writer André - Paul Duchâteau, Ric Hochet journalist (close to 76 albums since 1963) character.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

SALEM, Mass. -

Why is this man smiling?

Phillip Prodger, photography curator at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, has published a book exploring Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his research on the origins and commonality of life.

Prodger’s new book, “Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in The Theory of Evolution,” explores how Darwin collaborated with photographer Oscar Rejlander to document traits such as emotions to gain better understanding of the relationship of human beings to other living creatures.

With images of men, women and children showing joy, grief, anger and wonderment in Darwin’s compilation, “Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” Prodger argues that the collaboration between Darwin and Rejlander changed attitudes towards photography from a stiff and formal affair to a way to explore a subject’s personality.

http://www.ncnewspress.com/entertainment/x370510965/Photo-curators-book-sees-Darwins-work-through-a-different-lens

[Addie.Aynsley]

..... anyone else think he was a brilliant bastard?


In my opinion in his career he designed some of the most compelling pieces of domestic architecture *cough cough, Fallingwater anyone cough*


Of course, as it would seem with all the greats, he was an absolute turd of a person, hahaha.

[nicole]

he wasnt all that brilliant

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Review based on a production Canon PowerShot G11, Firmware version 1.00

The Powershot G series has represented a fairly formidable presence at the top of the compact camera tree. From a keen photographer point-of-view, there's little on the market that can match its mixture of zoom range, lens flexibility, build quality and level of manual control. Somehow Ricoh's GX and Nikon's P series have never quite had the same impact but Panasonic's LX3 has been enough to tempt some potential customers away, with its bright lens and convincing (for a compact) low-light performance.

The G11 seems determined to wrestle back its position as undisputed champion of the market, though, incorporating what Canon describes as a 'high sensitivity' CCD. In what might be a first, the company has reduced the pixel count in comparison to the preceding model. In principle, there is no disadvantage to having more pixels when you consider the whole image (other than the larger file sizes that might slow down the camera and fill your memory card faster and the added complication of having to apply noise reduction before demosaicing, which is not something many people are willing or able to do). However, the often larger photosites of a less pixel-dense sensor will tend to receive more light, in the same exposure, making it easier to produce an image that looks cleaner at the pixel level. Almost as if Canon wants its flagship compact to be a handy all-rounder.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canong11/

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Brothers pose in their first official double portrait, by artist Nicky Philipps

No nightclub jeans and loafers here. Officers and gentlemen Prince William and Prince Harry are more brothers in arms as they pose for their first official double portrait, unveiled in London Wednesday.

Dashing in their army uniforms from when they were fellow officers in the Household Cavalry, William, 27, is now serving in the Royal Air Force, while Harry, 25, is currently with the Army Air Corps.

Artist Nicky Philipps, 45, shows the princes at their official residence, Clarence House, London, and said she hoped the painting captured "a behind-the-scenes glance at the human element of royal responsibility and to emphasize their brotherly relationship."

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100106-tdy-princeportrait-11a.widec.jpg

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34727544/ns/today-today_people/

[leighanneslittlehorns]

By CANDACE JACKSON

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art announced Monday that Manhattan gallery director Jeffrey Deitch will take over as director.

The board voted unanimously Monday to approve the appointment, according to Maria Bell, who co-chairs the board of trustees (A press conference announcing the appointment was supposed to be held Monday, but was postponed until Tuesday due to a conflict with a mayoral news conference, according to the museum's press office.)

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-FF868_MocaDe_D_20100111115351.jpg


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704081704574652733847021844.html?

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Police recover painting that had been cut from its frame at museum

WARSAW, Poland - A Monet painting that was cut from its frame 10 years ago at a museum in western Poland and replaced with a copy painted on cardboard has been recovered, police said Wednesday.

Officers also have arrested a suspect who had the French Impressionist's "Beach in Pourville" in his possession and confessed to stealing it, officials said.

Poznan police spokesman Romuald Piecuch said that officers detained the 41-year-old man in the southern city of Olkusz Tuesday.

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100113-monet-hmed.hmedium.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34844390/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more/

[leighanneslittlehorns]

Cushioned wrist rests on pads shaped like Nami, Nico, Boa from shōnen manga


Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: The Japanese online retailer Amiami.com is offering pre-orders for three new "3D mouse pads" with cushioned wrist rests shaped like female breasts in March. Unlike the many similar, so-called "breasts mouse pads" in the past, these three mouse pads feature characters from the Shonen Jump manga One Piece and are officially authorized by the publisher Shueisha. The three mouse pads are shaped like the characters Nami, Nico Robin, and Boa Hancock.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-16/official-one-piece-3d-breasts-mouse-pads-for-sale

[belle]

Frida Kahlo’s World arrives at the Bozar
16/01/10 – “Frida Kahlo y su mundo” is the title of an exhibition devoted to the marvellous works of the Mexican painter in the Bozar in Brussels

http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/mediatheek_en/1.695993

[leighanneslittlehorns]

The artist jewellers Wendy Ramshaw and David Watkins met at Reading University in 1961 when they “fell quickly and completely in love” and married the following year. In 2012 they will mark 50 years of what Graham Hughes celebrates as “togetherness”. For 35 years they shared a studio, he tells us in his book David Watkins Wendy Ramshaw: A Life’s Partnership. They collaborated on paper jewellery in the 1960s, exhibited together, travelled together and shared the same experiences.

They raised a son and daughter together while pursuing independent careers, each winning wide acclaim, and thrilling international admirers with their surprising and inventively daring design. Their ingenuity as intimate adorners of the body takes on another dimension in large-scale commissions for gates and other public designs. The technical and visual influences common to each, and the creative cross-overs, as well as their distinctive identities as designers—Watkins, austere and minimal, Ramshaw at home in elaborated assembly—are beautifully presented in this profusely illustrated book.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/A-life-in-jewellery/20078

[Melancholia]

oh gawd, can't say i'm suprised in the least though.

[jamie]

Must resist and not buy

[Diamonds]

i can see these bein a great seller to many guys just in here :rofl:

[Alexa]

lmao

[leighanneslittlehorns]

A multimillion-pound collection of forged art seized by police has gone on public display for the first time.

The exhibition, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, features more than 100 fake works from Lowry paintings to Barbara Hepworth sculptures.

Experts say the collection, which also includes 'paintings' by Thomas Moran and graffiti artist Banksy, would be worth 4m if genuine.

http://www2.skynews.com.au/offbeat/article.aspx?id=420661

[Melancholia]

Not a big art fan but might be interesting to see.

[leighanneslittlehorns]

New York - A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into "The Actor" and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.

The unusually large canvas, measuring 196 by 115 centimetres, sustained a vertical tear of about 15 centimetres in the lower right-hand corner in the accident on Friday.

The museum, located on the eastern edge of New York's Central Park, did not elaborate on why the woman fell.

But The Met said the damage did not impact the "focal point of the composition" and that it should be repaired in the coming weeks ahead of a major Picasso retrospective featuring about 250 works at the museum opening on April 27.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20100125155332352C676235

[-Chris-]

i need one !!

[Addie.Aynsley]

what a dumb bitch, she'll never live that down.

"Oh hey, remember that time you practically destroyed that super expensive Picasso? /FACEPALM!!!"

[Melancholia]

eek! that's gotta be everyones worse nightmare when they visit a museum.

[Sublime LIME]

lmao its my worst nightmare for sure, lol

[в↓асќ Ісє]

x haha, their just lucky she doesnt sue for slipping!

[§łȉǵɧŧƪƴ ƧȶȯǒǷɨƌ]

Wow. That would suck.

[Danny]

Wonder if she was drunk?

[Addie.Aynsley]

I wonder why they'd even let anyone get close enough for it to be possible to touch it. It's a bit daft innit.

[Alexa]

something I would fall and do, tough thing

[PackerGirl]

She must be so embarrassed...:(

[Addie.Aynsley]

http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/SmartJVH3.jpg

Born in Adelaide in 1921 Smart left Australia almost forty years ago and has spent most of his life living and painting in the Italian countryside. However, his concrete landscapes could not be further removed from the idyllic scenery he lives in. His paintings are most often spoken of in clichés. Smart is described as a social commentator, a witness to the alienated city dweller or worker in a dehumanized landscape. However, Smart continues to shrug off these labels and it is true that they seem insufficient in accurately describing his paintings. He is not a painter of the reality of urban living. Elements of his images are taken from real places but they are modified and generalised. The effect is that the scenes could be renderings of any large modern city and are not anchored in Australia or Europe.

http://www.laurahansenartgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/jeffreysmart.gif




I pretty much love him.

[Melody]

I thought it might be an idea to have something like this for the people that use Photoshop (and related programmes).

First tutorial:

Photoshop Rounded Corners with Transparent Edges Tutorial:

1 - Once you have completed your image, select the Rounded Rectangle tool and drag it over your image until it has a colored rectangle with rounded corners covering it.
[To find the rounded rectangle you may need to right click on the rectangle tool option to bring up other options]
2 - Change the Opacity of the rectangle to 0%.
[screen shot as example: http://img716.imageshack.us/i/ss1n.jpg/ ]
3 - Click on the "Paths" tab in the layer palette.
4 - Right click on the layer to bring up a set of options and select "make selection"
[This brings up a box, just hit return without changing anything]
[screen shot as example: http://img718.imageshack.us/i/ss2q.jpg/ ]
5 - Go to edit and then select "copy merged".
6 - Open a new blank document with the same size dimensions as your original.
7 - Drag the original image onto the new blank one and ensure that the edges match up.
8 - Go back to Layers on the layers palette, select the background layer and right click to bring up a set of options.
9 - Select "layer from background" and hit enter when the box pops up.
[screen shot as example: http://img684.imageshack.us/i/ss3c.jpg/ ]
10 - Select the Magic Wand tool and click on the background layer with it.
11 - Hit delete to get a checked background and then click the Magic Wand tool on the background again to deselect it.
[The checked background means it has now gone transparent]
[screen shot as example: http://img6.imageshack.us/i/ss4rk.jpg/ ]
12 - Save the image as a PNG file.

[Louize]

Love this idea hun :) <3

[coloradocowgirl]

Police in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained.

Eliza Gonzalez sculpted the snow-woman with her son and daughter on her front lawn in Rahway following a snowstorm.

Many people praised their creation, but a police officer told them a neighbour had found it too risque, she said.

When given the option of covering the sculpture up or knocking it down, she dressed it in a bikini top and sarong.

"We didn't want to have any problem with the police so we covered it up," Ms Gonzalez told the AFP news agency.

But she now thinks the snowy Venus looks "more objectified and sexualised" than it did before the authorities intervened.

http://i47.tinypic.com/xprfpx.jpg

[coloradocowgirl]

Hundreds of people are being asked to shed their clothes to celebrate a Greater Manchester art gallery's 10th birthday.

The Lowry, in Salford, has commissioned photographer Spencer Tunick to create a piece of work in Salford and neighbouring Manchester in May.

The New York-based artist needs 1,000 volunteers to take part.

The work will be shown at The Lowry from June to September as part of its exhibition, Everyday People.

Tunick has photographed thousands of nude volunteers across the world, most recently at the Sydney Opera House earlier this month.

In Salford and Manchester, Tunick will create his first multiple site installation. Volunteers will be taken, via heated buses, to eight locations over the weekend of 1-2 May and asked to pose naked while Tunick creates his piece of work.

'Intriguing prospect'

He wants to capture the movement of everyday people in each photograph, reflecting the work of Salford artist LS Lowry.

"Salford and Manchester presents an intriguing prospect for my latest UK installation, based both on the rich industrial heritage that exists across both cities and the art of LS Lowry," Tunick said.

"LS Lowry's paintings depicting the mass of everyday people who contributed to the industrial machine of the 20th century, also provide an interesting frame of reference in terms of the compositional possibilities of the installations."

Kate Farrell, The Lowry's curator of special exhibitions urged people to take part.

She said: "This is a one-off chance to feature in an international artwork and to become part of a global network of Tunick participants."

[Louize]

I live really close to this! Heard about this at uni :D

[toby]

Imma on me way :)

[coloradocowgirl]

http://i41.tinypic.com/64l7iw.jpg


A new exhibition will showcase for the first time the art that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert collected and presented to each other.

The display at Buckingham Palace reveals the couple's enthusiasm for paintings, sculptures and jewellery.

The 400-piece royal collection is expected to "challenge attitudes towards the monarch," its curator said.

Jonathan Marsden, lead curator for Art and Love, said: "It was really only intended for Albert's eyes."

'Secret picture'

He added: "The Queen does not exactly look like a queen, that's how he knew her - not the rest of the realm."

He added: "We think, 'who were these people?', because she doesn't look like the queen we know, she was a party girl when she was in her 20s and 30s."


He preferred things that took him to a higher place of thinking, while she liked visual satisfaction
Jonathan Marsden, lead curator, Art & Love

Victoria's most glamorous surviving dress, worn at a Buckingham Palace ball in 1851, is part of the exhibition.

Mr Marsden who takes over from Sir Hugh Roberts as director of the Royal Collection next month said: "This wasn't exactly normal - this was a very elaborate costume gown.

"She would be out dancing all the time, I think what really got her going was music, dancing the theatre, opera."

One of the highlights of the exhibition is the rarely-displayed painting, known as "The Secret Picture" by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, which Victoria commissioned in 1843 as a surprise present for Albert's 24th birthday.

The oval image shows the Queen in what many Victorians would have described as a sensual pose, with a bare neck and her long hair flowing freely.

Those behind the exhibition said they hoped it would give members of the public an insight into the royal couple's relationship and their passion for art.

Paintings and sculptures show the nude female form and private artwork shared between Victoria and her husband.

The curator said the royal couple had distinct tastes, with Victoria attracted to works which stimulated the senses, while Albert was more cerebral and preferred art that appealed to his intellect.

"He preferred things that took him to a higher place of thinking, while she liked visual satisfaction," said Mr Marsden.

The exhibition, Victoria and Albert: Art and Love, will open to the public on 19 March and runs until the end of October.

[coloradocowgirl]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Charles Moore, a photographer who chronicled the civil rights movement, has died. He was 79.

John Edgley of Edgley Cremation Services in West Palm Beach, Fla., confirmed that Moore died Thursday.

The Times Daily of Florence, Ala., reported that Moore began covering the movement as the lone photographer at the scene when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Montgomery in 1958. In the years that followed, the Alabama native took some of the most enduring shots of the movement.

For much of his career, he worked for Life magazine.

In 1991, a collection of his photographs along with his biography was published: "Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore."

A memorial service is planned later this year.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_14675098#ixzz0iCFBNl62

[Melody]

Adding A Touch Of Color To A Black & White Picture:

This is really neat trick to make an ordinary black and white image stand out.
I love using this on eyes to add color so that they really pop out at the viewer.
It's really simple to do and takes no time at all.

[one]
Open your black and white image.
[link to image I have used: http://wastedseconds.com/wp-content/gallery/amy-lee/amy-lee_06.jpg ]
[if you have one that's in color, it's easy to change it to black and white by going to IMAGE, then selecting ADJUSTMENTS and DESATURATE]

[two]
Duplicate the image by pressing CTRL+ J.

[three]
Right click on the BRUSH TOOL and select COLOR REPLACEMENT TOOL.

[four]
Select the size of the brush [I find a smaller brush is better and more easy to control] and the color you want to use.

[five]
Brush the color over the area that you want colored and erase any parts that have gone over into areas you want to keep black and white.
[screen shot of how it looks so far: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/536/ss1wpz.jpg ]

[six]
If the color is too bright, or looks too artificial then lower the opacity.

[seven]
Create a new layer by pressing SHIFT, CTRL + N and then go to IMAGE and select APPLY IMAGE.
Set this to soft light to create a bit more depth and tone.
[screen shot of how it looks so far: http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3173/ss2fy.jpg ]

[eight]
Add any text, etc and save as a PNG file.
And here's my finished image:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7894/ss3sq.jpg

[toby]

Parents the world over have watched their sons playing with Lego and dreamed they'll go on to build successful careers as, say, high-flying lawyers.

Well, quite what the parents of Nathan Sawaya are now thinking - the 36-year-old quit his job as corporate lawyer in 2001 to return to his boyhood obsession - creating shapes with those colourful building blocks.

But before you smirk, the artist is proving there is more to Lego than child's play - by selling his brick-based creations for a staggering £10,000 each.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259561/Still-playing-Lego-36--corporate-lawyer-packed-create-10-000-works-colourful-building-blocks.html#ixzz0itfOg0vQ

[coloradocowgirl]

NEW YORK - A New York City art dealer who catered to celebrities has admitted bilking nearly $100 million from his star-studded clientele through bogus art investment opportunities and sales of pieces he didn't own.

Lawrence B. Salander pleaded guilty Thursday to grand larceny and scheming to defraud in a case that swept up tennis star John McEnroe and the estate of actor Robert De Niro's father as victims.

The 60-year-old Salander has been promised a prison term that's a maximum of six to 18 years. He's due back in court for a pre-sentencing status update May 20.

The former art gallery owner admitted swindling McEnroe out of about $2 million and Robert De Niro Sr.'s estate out of more than $1 million. They're among many other victims.

A judge shuttered Salander's gallery in 2007.

[в↓асќ Ісє]

x Why is art so damn expensive O.o

[coloradocowgirl]

NEW YORK - Dozens of portraits by Irving Penn, one of the most prolific and important photographers of the 20th century, will be auctioned at Christie's tomorrow in the biggest single sale of his work.

Penn gave the 67 portraits over 30 years to his administrative assistant and friend Patricia McCabe, who died in 2004.

Laura Paterson, photography specialist at Christie's, said many pictures up for auction are platinum prints of the highest possible quality.

"I mean, these had a number of Penn devotees. In looking at the collection, people who know a lot about the artist said that they are the best examples of a particular image they have ever seen," she explained.

"He wasn't just giving her tokens. These are wonderful objects in their own right."

The collection is expected to sell for between $1.5 million and $2 million. Highlights of the auction include Cuzco Children, which was done in 1948 and has an estimated price range of $100,000 to $150,000.

Poppy: Glowing Embers New York could sell for up to $90,000 and Woman in Moroccan Palace, of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, in Marrakech is estimated to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000.

Fonnsagrives-Penn is considered the first supermodel and was married to Penn, who died in 2009. She was often photographed by Penn for many magazine covers.

But the photographs represent various examples of Penn's work. Paterson, who said McCabe was very careful in her Penn choices, said the sale should change the market for non-fashion imagery.

It should also spark interest because there isn't much available on the retail market, and due to a recent show of Penn's "Small Trades" pictures, which is a complete series of worker pictures.

McCabe had four or five photographs in her apartment. Paterson said when she discovered the bulk of the collection at a Manhattan mini storage, "I couldn't believe my eyes."

"We don't know how the collection evolved but taking a look at kind of the rationale here, I think Patricia said 'I'd like one of those' ... he give her that option."

Detail is also what makes the portfolio more intriguing with photographs labeled by medium, title, edition, and signed with personal notes to McCabe on the back of the prints.

Paterson, who has been at Christie's for 15 years, said that on occasion there are high points for this type of medium and for her "this is absolutely one of those moments

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36484568/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more/

[coloradocowgirl]

NEW YORK - Some visitors to a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art are being asked to leave because they are touching nude performers.

The performers featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons.

The museum acknowledges that it has had problems with some visitors touching the live art. It is declining to talk about specific cases, but says visitors caught doing it are escorted out.

The exhibition opened March 14 and presents a view of Abramovic's career over four decades.

It includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway that visitors can pass through. Elsewhere, a naked woman reclines with a fake skeleton on top of her. Other live performers are clothed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36597021/ns/entertainment-arts_books_more/

[Melancholia]

:rolleyes5: weird

[coloradocowgirl]

The National Gallery is dusting off some of its most embarrassing acquisitions for a new exhibition looking at fake artworks.

Close Examination will display works of art that have been quietly removed from view after research showed they were not what they were thought to be.

They include works supposedly by Sandro Botticelli and Hans Holbein which were mistakenly thought to be genuine.

More than 40 works of art will go on display at the gallery in June.

The exhibition is billed as a celebration of "the remarkable collaboration of scientists, conservators and art historians" at the central London gallery.

Pastiche

Spread across six rooms, the works represent some of the biggest challenges faced by gallery experts.

In June 1874, the gallery paid more for a fake than a real Botticelli when two pieces were purchased at the same time.

Venus and Mars was bought along with the more expensive An Allegory, which was thought to be a companion piece.

Only later was the latter discovered to be a pastiche painted by a follower in the style of Botticelli.

The paintings will be displayed alongside one another at the exhibition.

Also on show will be a portrait acquired by the National Gallery in 1990 which was believed to be by Holbein.

But microscopic paint analysis revealed Portrait of Alexander Mornauer (about 1464-88) was altered to resemble a work by the German master.

Conservators were able to safely remove these additions to return the painting to its original state.

One room in the exhibition looks at work by great artists that were rediscovered through a combination of scientific analysis, conservation, and art historical research.

Raphael's original painting of The Madonna of the Pinks, whose whereabouts was unknown until 1991, will also be on display.

During a visit to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, Dr Nicholas Penny - now director of the National Gallery - spotted the painting and decided it warranted closer examination.

Infrared reflectograms confirmed the work as a genuine Raphael.

Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries opens on 30 June and runs until 12 September.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8624563.stm

[coloradocowgirl]

http://i39.tinypic.com/e1cjgz.jpg


NEW YORK - A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction.

"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 million and $90 million, was sold at Christie's auction house on Tuesday evening to an unidentified telephone bidder.

There were nine minutes of bidding involving eight clients in the sale room and on the phone, Christie's said. At $88 million, two bidders remained. The final bid was $95 million, but the buyer's premium took the sale price to $106.5 million.

Conor Jordan, head of impressionist and modern art for Christie's New York, said he was "ecstatic with the results."

"Tonight's spectacular results showed the great confidence in the marketplace and the enthusiasm with which it welcomes top quality works," he said.

The striking work of Picasso's muse and mistress Marie-Therese Walter has been exhibited in the United States only once, in 1961 in Los Angeles to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Picasso's birth. The painting, which measures more than 5 feet by 4 feet, shows a reclining nude figure with an image of Picasso in the background looking over her.

The painting had belonged to the late California art patron Frances Lasker Brody, who bought it in the 1950s. It had been kept in her family since then.

Part of the sale proceeds will benefit the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., where Brody was on the board.

The previous record for a work of art at auction was $104.3 million for "Walking Man I," a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti sold on Feb. 3 at Sotheby's in London. The previous high price for a Picasso work was $104.2 million for "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," attained in 2004 at Sotheby's New York.

On Wednesday, another rarely seen Picasso is slated to sell at Sotheby's auction house. "Woman in a Hat, Bust" is a 1965 work inspired by Jacqueline Roque, the last love of Picasso's life. It is estimated to sell for $8 million to $12 million.

The work hung for 50 years in the Manhattan apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of former President John F. Kennedy. It's being sold by her estate.

Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36950780/ns/today-entertainment/#ixzz0n57XVmgp

[Melancholia]

wow! that's amazing!

[coloradocowgirl]

NEW YORK - The Museum of Modern Art's photography collection is so rich that it can present virtually the entire history of the medium using only images taken by women and in many cases, of women.

It's instructive to realize that whatever genre or style in which men worked, even industrial photography, women were doing the same.

The show is organized chronologically, beginning with a gallery of 19th and early 20th century photographs that illustrate the two traditions of documentary and pictorial photography.

The most compelling in the first category is a series of photos taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at the all-black Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), founded to educate former slaves. At the other end of the spectrum are the self-conscious, artistic photographs by Gertrude Kasebier, known for her symbolic, soft-focus images of Victorian motherhood such as the 1899 "The Manger" and 1904's "The Heritage of Motherhood."

The show continues with a stunning array of photographs by European artists in the 1920s and 1930s, including Ilse Bing's 1931 "Self-Portrait in Mirrors," which shows her looking straight at the viewer and in profile at the same time, an illusion made possible by using her camera as a third eye.

And since the art world seems to be having a Picasso moment, with major shows in museums and galleries and the record-breaking sale of one of his paintings at auction, be sure to look at an untitled work from 1930 by Picasso's lover and muse Dora Maar, a highly regarded artist in her own right. It shows a woman from the rear with her long black coat lifted up in the wind.

You'll also want to spend time in front of two prints by French photographer Germaine Krull, whose beautifully composed images of urban landscapes show that women could do muscular photographs of architectural structures as well as any man.

Although Dorothea Lange is among the best-known U.S. photographers, male or female, the curators have rightly devoted an entire wall to almost 20 of her photographs, all the subjects girls and women.

They range from her iconic Depression-era picture "Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California" to the poignant image of Japanese-American children saying the pledge of allegiance soon after President Roosevelt ordered the relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans into grim camps in the West.

The mid-to-late 20th century is represented by MoMA's newly acquired color photographs of New York street life by Helen Levitt, best known for her work in black and white, and uncomfortable but affecting images by Austrian-born Lisette Model and Diane Arbus.

Witty wallpaper just outside the entrance shows close-ups of human buttocks, reproduced from a 1960s-era film made by Yoko Ono. The images look vaguely human up close but resolve into a pillowy abstraction when seen from a distance.

And as you leave the show, "29 Palms: Mortar Impact," a large, black-and-white photograph by Vietnamese-American photographer An-My Le, depicts a few clouds of smoke rising from the barren desert floor, framed by the distant peaks of a rugged mountain range. It suggests the bleakness of war, hints at U.S. engagement in Iraq, and in its simplicity and clarity, is a work of stunning beauty.

The sixth gallery of the exhibition will close on Aug. 30, and the other five will remain on view through next March. It will not travel.

Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37090375/ns/today-entertainment/#ixzz0oI0KSYFO

[coloradocowgirl]

PARIS - A lone thief stole five paintings worth up to $124 million in total, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist Thursday from a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said.

The paintings were reported missing early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, according to Paris police. Investigators have cordoned off the museum, in one of the French capital's most tourist-frequented neighborhoods.

A single masked intruder was caught on a video surveillance camera taking the paintings away, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. The intruder entered by cutting a padlock on a gate and breaking a museum window, it said.

The stolen works were "Le pigeon aux petits-pois" (The Pigeon with the Peas), an ochre and brown Cubist oil painting by Pablo Picasso; "La Pastorale" (Pastoral), an oil painting of nudes on hillside by Henri Matisse; "L'olivier pres de l'Estaque" (Olive Tree near Estaque) by Georges Braque; "La femme a l'eventail" (Woman with a Fan) by Amedeo Modigliani; and "Nature-mort aux chandeliers" (Still Life with Chandeliers) by Fernand Leger.

Red-and-white tape surrounded the museum, where investigators were studying surveillance video. Paper signs on the museum doors said it was closed for technical reasons.

On a cordoned-off balcony behind the museum, police in blue gloves and face masks examined the broken window and empty frames. The paintings appeared to have been carefully removed from the dissembled frames, not sliced out.

A security guard at the museum said the paintings were discovered missing by a night watchman just before 7 a.m. (1 a.m. ET). The guard was not authorized to be publicly named because of the museum policy.

Museum officials and police would not immediately comment on reports that the alarm system had malfunctioned or been disabled.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement that he was "saddened and shocked by this theft, which is an intolerable attack on Paris' universal cultural heritage."

The director of the neighboring modern art museum Palais de Tokyo, Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, called the thief or thieves "fools."

"You cannot do anything with these paintings. All countries in the world are aware, and no collector is stupid enough to buy a painting that, one, he can't show to other collectors, and two, risks sending him to prison," he said on LCI television.

"In general, you find these paintings," he said. "These five paintings are un-sellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37250088/ns/world_news-europe/

[nicole]

lol

this heist = fail

[Melancholia]

great security then -rolls eyes-

[toby]

Artist Natalie Turner is currently exhibiting her latest collection ‘Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind’ at the Cielo gallery in Mayfair.

Inspired by the depression she has endured since childhood, the works explore abandonment through surreal, digitally manipulated photography.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/inspired-art-natalie-turners-eternal-spirit-of-the-chainless-mind-1982648.html

[Melancholia]

i actually like a few of those, could happily do without the naked woman one though.

[coloradocowgirl]

French-born American sculptor Louise Bourgeois has died in New York, at the age of 98.

Based in New York since 1938, Bourgeois gained fame late in her long career and kept working to the end of her life.

Her giant spider sculptures have been exhibited around the world and earned her the nickname of Spiderwoman.

Her abstract explorations of themes such as birth, sexuality and death made her one of the world's most influential contemporary artists.

Bourgeois suffered a heart attack two days ago.

Although she had long been regarded by her contemporaries as one of the world's most important artists, it was not until her seventies that she began to attract a wider audience

Her spider sculptures - some of which are three storeys high - have been exhibited around the world, including the Tate Modern in London.

In a statement, the gallery said: "We were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Louise Bourgeois this weekend. Always at the forefront of new developments in art, she pursued a wholly personal path and was powerfully inventive, working in dialogue with the major avant-garde movements of her time.

"Her death is a great loss."

Bourgeois' vast installation, I Do, I Undo, I Redo, was the first commission in The Unilever Series for Tate Modern.

Her sculpture of a giant spider, Maman, was part of the Unilever Series at the gallery which greeted the very first visitors in 2000.

The artist said her main inspiration came from her childhood in France, where her father had an affair with her governess, which her mother refused to acknowledge.

Four of her sculptures - including a 30-ft (nine-metre) tall spider, titled Maman - were among the first works to appear in the new Tate Modern in London 10 years ago.

She also used her own clothes as the basis for a series of bronzes.

Artist Richard Wentworth, from the Royal College of Art, called the sculptor "enormously significant".

He added: "She connected the intensely private act of being an artist with the intensely public act of developing a worldwide audience.

"To have worked constantly for so long and so publicly - is in a field of its own. There are very few female artists who make it to later life and it's very tough to be a woman artist or sculptor."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8714974.stm

[coloradocowgirl]

LONDON — Rivals Christie's and Sotheby's are expecting to hold their biggest ever London sales later this month, reflecting growing confidence in the art market boom.

Christie's announced on Thursday it was offering a 1906 Monet water-lily painting called "Nympheas," worth an estimated $44 million to $59 million, the same price as Blue Period piece "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto" by Pablo Picasso.

The pair, plus 61 other works on offer, including pieces by Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse. The auction is expected to take the tally on June 23 to $239 million to $337 million, which, if realized, would be well above the London record of $214 million set at Sotheby's in February.

"We are witnessing a great willingness from clients to consign works of art of the highest quality," said Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's.

Sotheby's said it expected to sell art worth $147 million to $216 million at its equivalent sale on June 22, its highest pre-sale estimate in London.

Its auction centerpiece is a painting by Edouard Manet valued at $29 million to $43 million pounds, one of just two self-portraits by the artist and the only one in private hands.

Records tumble
Both of the world's leading auctioneers have set records in recent months, starting with Sotheby's in February when a Giacometti statue went under the hammer for $104.3 million, the world auction record for a work of art.

Three months later, Christie's topped that with a Picasso which fetched $106.5 million in New York.

The top European auction total stands at $276.4 million for the impressionist and modern art section of the private Yves Saint Laurent collection.

With records tumbling, it comes as little surprise that owners of the finest art are willing to offer it up for sale.

Uncertainty over the state of the broader global economy has failed to dampen the mood in sales rooms, experts say, with only a handful of super-wealthy individuals or institutions needed to drive values higher.

A relatively short-lived slump in the art market was caused as much by sellers drying up as by buyers no longer wanting to pay out large sums for paintings and sculptures.

Christie's described demand for the rarest works of art as "fierce," coming from Russia, China and the Middle East as well as the more traditional markets of Europe and North America.

"Nympheas," the work by Monet to be offered by Christie's, was shown at the famous 1909 exhibition in Paris where the artist's studies of the effects of light in his garden in Giverny won critical acclaim.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37487055/ns/today-entertainment/

[belle]

wow, sounds just wow, i love art,...
if i would have the money id buy a painting of Salvador Dali,...
a small painting,... portrait of his wife Gala,... its breath taking,...

[Sublime LIME]

I like him too Belle and have three of his prints in my living room.

It would be neat to see

[coloradocowgirl]

A restored painting by Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto is to go on public display for the first time.

The work will be displayed at Kingston Lacy in Dorset following a £36,000 conservation project by the National Trust.

The painting has spent most of the last 30 years in storage because of its poor condition.

Tintoretto is considered to be one of the great masters of mid to late 16th Century Venice.
Poor condition

"This is undoubtedly a work of great significance," said Alastair Laing, the National Trust's curator of pictures and sculpture.

"To have a painting by Tintoretto in an English house, rather than still in its original location in Venice, or in an Italian museum, is extraordinary."

The painting was in such poor condition when it was donated to the National Trust in 1981 that only half of it was visible.

Experts were uncertain if it was by Tintoretto but work to clean the 2.67m by 2.34m artwork, as well as X-rays and infrared analysis, helped to identify the artist's style and brush strokes.

Since the mid-19th Century, the painting has been known as Apollo and the Muses.

But in Greek mythology there were nine muses, and there are just seven figures in the picture besides Apollo - who may in fact be the goddess of marriage, Hymen - and two cupids, the National Trust said.

As a result of the restoration, the painting has been re-titled Apollo (or Hymen) Crowning A Poet And Giving Him A Spouse.

But many aspects of the painting remain a mystery, including the presence of Hercules and the significance of objects including a gold cup, a gold box and a gold steeple.

Christine Sitwell, the National Trust's paintings conservation adviser, said: "The cleaning process has revealed the sheer quality and energy of Tintoretto and how he worked, but we're still baffled as to some of the content of the painting.

"We would love anyone out there to tell us what they think it could be."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10266761.stm

[coloradocowgirl]

Human remains found in a church in Tuscany almost certainly belong to Renaissance artist Caravaggio, Italian researchers said.

The team said they were 85% sure that the set of bones of a man who died in about 1610, aged between 38 and 40, were that of the painter.

The remains had been kept in an ossuary in a church crypt in Porto Ercole, after reportedly being exhumed in 1956.

Caravaggio was known for his "chiaroscuro" painting technique.

The method, in which light and shadow are sharply contrasted, revolutionised painting.
Mystery

The researchers, from four Italian universities, said they believed Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio died of sunstroke while weakened by syphilis.

The findings come after a year-long investigation using DNA, carbon dating and other analysis.

The cause of his death had been a mystery, with various theories put forward, including that he was assassinated for religious reasons, and that he collapsed with malaria on a deserted beach.

Some have said he was on his way to Rome to seek a pardon when he died.

Carravagio was famed for his wild lifestyle, including often starting fights and ending up in jail. He even killed a man.

He was born in either 1571 or 1573, according to varying scholars, and spent the last few years of his life fleeing justice in southern Italy.

His works include Bacchus, The Supper at Emmaus and Sacrifice of Isaac.

The remains are believed to have lain originally in an unmarked grave among around 200 others at the church cemetery, until they were exhumed in 1956 and placed in the ossuary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10333158.stm

[Sublime LIME]

cool

[coloradocowgirl]

Art restorers in Italy have discovered what are believed to be the oldest paintings of some of Jesus Christ's apostles.

The faces of Apostles Andrew, John, Peter and Paul were uncovered using new laser technology in a catacomb in Rome.

The paintings date from the second half of the 4th Century or the early 5th Century, the restorers and Vatican officials believe.

The images may have influenced later depictions of Christ's early followers.
'Very emotional'

"These are the first images that we know of the faces of these four apostles," said Fabrizio Bisconti, head of archaeology for Rome's numerous Vatican-owned catacombs.

The frescoes in a tomb of a Roman noblewoman in the Santa Tecla catacomb were known about but their details came to light during a two-year restoration project funded by the Vatican.

The images were uncovered using new laser technology that allowed the restorers to burn off thick white calcium carbonate deposits caused by extreme humidity and lack of air.

"The laser created a sort of mini-explosion of steam when it interacted with the calcium carbonate to make it detach from the surface," said Barbara Mazzei, who was in charge of the project.

"It was very, very emotional to discover this," she added.

Andrew, Peter and John were among Jesus' original 12 apostles.

Paul was an influential early Christian who travelled widely in the Mediterranean area in the 1st Century. His letters to the early churches, found in the Bible's New Testament, are arguably some of the most influential on Christian thinking.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10382828.stm

[coloradocowgirl]

A 1979 Andy Warhol self-portrait, which fetched $254,500 (£170,800), was among photos sold at a New York auction of the Polaroid corporation's collection.

It was one of 1,200 photos in the Sotheby's sale, ranging from classic Polaroids to more traditional prints, collected by the firm over the years.

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park by Ansel Adams fetched a top price of $722,500 (£484,900).

The sale was ordered by a court after the firm filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

It brought in $12.4m (£8.3m), exceeding the pre-sale estimate of $10.7m (£7.2m).

Adams' moody 1944 black-and-white print of the rugged terrain of Yosemite in California - which had been estimated to sell for between $300,000 and $500,000 (£201,000 and £335,000) - fetched a record for the US nature and landscape photographer.

It beat the $609,600 (£408,700) paid for his 1941 work Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.

Sotheby's said the sale, selected from the 16,000-image Polaroid collection, featured the largest selection of works by Adams ever to come to market.

Adams, who died in 1984, was also a consultant at the Polaroid company working with founder and inventor Edwin Land to build the collection.

"Ansel wanted a larger collection to show creativity in photographs," Sotheby's photography department director Denise Bethel said.

"In the 50's and 60's, Ansel Adams started sending out cameras to artists for feedback.

"The artists would exchange their prints for the use of Polaroid cameras."
Artist records

The record for a Warhol photograph was twice broken in the auction, with Self-Portrait (Grimace) selling for $146,500 (£98,200) before Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed) sold for $254,500 (£170,800).

Fourteen artist records were set in total including those for photographs by Lucas Samaras and Harry Callahan.

Ultra-Large (Hands), by experimental artist Samaras, sold for $194,500 (£130,400).

It was taken on a 1m by 2m Polaroid camera which needed the assistance of several technicians.

Non-Polaroid work Chicago (Trees in Snow), by Callahan, sold for $254,500 (£170,600).

The Polaroid camera came on the market in 1948.

Denise Bethel, of Sotheby's, said the invention had influenced "the history of photography, aesthetics and contemporary art".

"Polaroid raised everyone's expectations for instant results," she said.

"It prepared the digital age, it was a psychological step to the digital world."

The Polaroid company was bought up by a group of investors last year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10388914.stm

[Addie.Aynsley]

awesome!

I love old photographs, that would have been an exhibit to see

[Addie.Aynsley]

wow! That's a really awesome find, he was a fabulous artist.

[coloradocowgirl]

The National Portrait Gallery has launched a campaign to stop the export of the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave.

It needs to raise £100,000 to save the 1733 portrait of Gambian Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, by artist William Hoare.

The Heritage Lottery Fund, The Art Fund and the NPG will all contribute to the total cost, which is £555,000.

The portrait, which has never been seen in public, has temporarily gone on show at the London gallery.

Diallo, who was from a prosperous family of religious clerics, was captured as a slave in Africa at the age of 29 and was transported to work on a plantation in America.

After he was imprisoned for trying to escape, he met lawyer Thomas Bluett who, impressed by Diallo's intellect and education, took him to England.

Diallo was received with great enthusiasm by aristocrats and scholars.

The National Portrait Gallery said Hoare's painting was the first British portrait that honoured a named African subject as an individual and an equal.
Export bar

A spokesman for the gallery told the BBC News website that the work - which had been in a private collection - had sold at auction in Christie's in London in December for £554,937.50.

Following the sale, then Culture Minister Margaret Hodge put a temporary export bar on the painting and gave British museums and galleries the opportunity to buy it if they could match the price.

The Heritage Lottery Fund and The Art Fund have already given grants of £333,000 and £100,000, while the NPG has also contributed.

The Lottery Fund's grant will go towards the acquisition, as well as the costs of conserving, displaying and touring the painting around other galleries and museums in the UK.

Broadcaster and National Portrait Gallery trustee, Zeinab Badawi, said: "This portrait is a rare example of a painting of an 18th Century African in Britain.

"This portrait would be a vital and powerful addition to the collection at the National Portrait Gallery for its representation of Britain's diverse cultural heritage."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10540146.stm

[coloradocowgirl]

A major exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci works is to feature paintings never seen before in the UK.

London's National Gallery said Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan will be the most complete display of the artist's paintings ever held.

Various works are being borrowed for the display, which will focus on Da Vinci's aims and techniques as a painter.

The exhibition will run from November 2011 until February the following year.

Several pieces will be borrowed for the display, including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as Virgin and Child) from the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, and Saint Jerome from Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome.

The gallery said it will "examine Leonardo's pursuit for perfection in his representation of the human form".

A full-scale copy of Da Vinci's famous Last Supper, on loan from the Royal Academy, will also be featured.

Other forthcoming exhibitions at the National Gallery include a display devoted to the artist Bridget Riley from this autumn.

The gallery is also staging a major display next spring titled Jan Gossaert's Renaissance, the first exhibition dedicated to the Flemish artist for more than 40 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10727058

[coloradocowgirl]

ROME — Art officials on Tuesday unveiled the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master.

The "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will now be subjected to X-rays and other analyses to ascertain its attribution. But art officials and scholars attending the unveiling agreed the painting did not look like a Caravaggio — but rather like the work of one or more of his followers.

"It's a very interesting painting but I believe we can rule out — at least for now — that it's a Caravaggio," said art superintendent Rossella Vodret. "The quality of the painting doesn't hold up."

Vodret theatrically opened the curtain on the painting in a Jesuit church in Rome, revealing a canvas dominated by the figure of the St. Lawrence being grilled to death, his three executioners in the backdrop.

The 183-by-130.5 centimeter (72-by-51 inch) painting was recently cleaned up and features the dramatic chiaroscuro typical of Caravaggio and his school. The painting will not be on public display.

The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, set the art world aflutter last week with a front-page article headlined "A New Caravaggio."

The article made clear that no certain attribution had been made and that further tests were required. But the definitive-sounding headline and the fact that the claim was made on the day marking the 400th anniversary of the master's death had raised expectations. The Vatican has in the past announced such art-world news in L'Osservatore, sometimes coinciding with an anniversary.

But on Monday, the newspaper reversed itself and published an article by the Vatican's top art historian shooting down the claim. Under the front-page headline "A New Caravaggio? Not really," Vatican Museums chief Antonio Paolucci wrote that the work was not of Caravaggio's quality and termed it "modest" at best.

The painting belongs to the Jesuit order and had been kept for years in a private room in the Chiesa del Gesu in Rome, said the church's rector, the Rev. Daniele Libanori. As the painting's cleanup this year revealed an interesting work, art officials were called in.

But Libanori said the original claim in L'Osservatore came as a surprise to the Jesuits, too.

Mystery still surrounds the history of the canvas. Libanori was secretive about its origin, declining to say what city or Jesuit venue the painting had come from.

The painting is uneven artistically, scholars said, with some beautiful elements and some parts they didn't hesitate to call "very poor" and even "embarrassing." This suggested that two different people may have worked at it, though it is not certain.

Vodret said the most interesting element is the position and perspective of the saint, who's shown on the grill, one arm extended, his figure lit up. Such unique iconography might have suggested the hand of Caravaggio, known for showing scenes as if shot from unusual angles.

She said the hand of one of the executioners, holding a stick to keep the saint down, is also of good quality. But she and the other experts noted that elements were poor, such as the bodies of the executioners, the cloth covering Lawrence, and one of the saint's legs, which appears to be awkwardly attached to the torso.

"The leg looks like a frog's leg. Caravaggio would never have made such a mistake," said Marco Bona Castellotti, an art historian. Even as he saw the painting for the first time at Tuesday's unveiling, he had no doubt it couldn't be Caravaggio.

Experts believed the work may have been done by a follower, likely in Naples, Sicily or Malta — all places where the painter spent time during his tumultuous life. Caravaggio died in a Tuscan coast town in 1610 in mysterious circumstances, and a group of Italian researchers said recently that they had identified his remains.

The tests on the "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will begin in September, accompanied by research of archives and documents in order to trace the history of the painting and who commissioned it. The research will take several months.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38428368/ns/today-entertainment/

[coloradocowgirl]

ATLANTA — A new exhibition opening exclusively in Atlanta explores artist Salvador Dali's late work, including several major pieces that haven't been seen in the U.S. in half a century.

Dali is best known as a surrealist, his melting watches an iconic image of that movement. But after about 10 years, his relationship with that group grew strained in the late 1930s for a variety reasons both artistic and political. "Salvador Dali: The Late Work," opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on Saturday, focuses on the period from 1940 to 1983.

"It's become a really interesting area for investigation because you have Dali's career which spans almost all of the 20th century, but historically people have really only looked at the 1930s," said exhibition curator Elliott King. "It was almost like he died in 1940."

Dali declared himself a classic painter in 1941, and while many critics disparaged his later work as kitsch or too commercial, the general public may not be able to discern much difference between the surrealist period and the later works, King said.

"Even though Dali was defining his work as a radical separation and a lot of critics really began taking that divide up to define late Dali, there are a lot of interesting continuities that kind of work through the whole," he said.

For that reason, King said, the new exhibition works on multiple levels. For Dali newcomers, it provides an introduction to the deep imagination and showmanship of the Spanish artist. For those who know Dali well, it may challenge perceptions of his later work and provide a glimpse of works not seen before.

The exhibit opens with photos by American photographer Philippe Halsman of the mustachioed artist in crazy poses showcasing what King describes as Dali's "wacky showman" side. It then moves into some earlier works to give visitors some background.

From there, it progresses to Dali's exploration of "nuclear mysticism," which reflects two recurring influences on Dali's late work — his return to the Catholic Church and nuclear physics.

A perfect example of this concept is "The Madonna of Port-Lligat," which shows the Madonna and Child fragmented and breaking into particles. The large-scale painting is on loan from a museum in Japan and hasn't been seen in the U.S. since 1951.

Another impressive piece that illustrates this theme is "Santiago El Grande," an homage to Saint James, the patron saint of Spain, which features Dali's vision of the crucifixion and a horse rearing up above an atomic explosion.

Designed as an altarpiece, King said the painting is best viewed from below, lying on the floor and looking up. (Though, for safety reasons, the High would prefer visitors just crouch.) On loan from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick, Canada, the painting hasn't traveled since 1959.

One of the most famous images in the exhibition is "Christ of St. John of the Cross," stunning in part for its vantage point — looking down from above on the crucified Christ. On an adjacent wall is a photo of Dali with Bobby Kennedy in front of the painting in 1965, the last time the painting voyaged to the U.S. from its home in Scotland.

A treat for Dali fanatics is "Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapilazulina," which has been in private collections and hasn't been viewed publicly since 1959. The large painting features Dali's wife, Gala, as the Virgin Mary dematerializing into Heaven.

"It's something that I've written a lot about, but I'd never seen it before it came here," King said. "I was so excited to actually see it come out of its shipping crate."

One of King's goals with the exhibition was to bring together several significant paintings that haven't been seen in the U.S. in many decades — or, in some cases, not at all.

"A lot of these paintings are pilgrimage sites of their own," he said. "I thought if we could get one of them, we'd be in really good shape, and we ended up getting four."

The final section of the exhibition centers on what King calls Dali's pop art, which came well before similar commercial efforts by artists like Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons.

There are brooches so gaudy they look like costume jewelry; a chess set in which all the pieces are molds of his fingers, except the rooks which are copies of the salt shakers from the St. Regis hotel; and portraits of American high society figures.

A 1960 film, "Chaos and Creation," in which Dali used a motorcycle, popcorn and pigs to create an abstract painting, may be the first example of video art, King said.

The last gallery houses a hologram of rock star Alice Cooper and "The Sistine Madonna" painting from 1958 that superimposes the image of the Virgin and Child over a photograph of the Pope's ear rendered in a benday dot pattern, preceding similar pop art works.

A wall of two dozen magazine covers — just a fraction of the many he appeared on over the years — demonstrates his status as a true celebrity artist.

The exhibition is organized by the High, in collaboration with the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali in Figueres, Spain. The exhibition will be at the High, its sole venue, through Jan. 9.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38560944/ns/today-entertainment/

[coloradocowgirl]

NEW YORK — Call it the lost art of drinking responsibly: A man entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million painting said it disappeared while he was in a drunken haze, according to a lawsuit filed by a co-owner of the canvas.

James Carl Haggerty took the painting — noted French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's circa 1857 "Portrait of a Girl" — to a Manhattan hotel on July 28 for a potential buyer to examine, Kristyn Trudgeon's lawsuit said.

Then Haggerty hung out at the hotel bar and was seen on security cameras leaving the building with the painting after midnight, according to the lawsuit.

But there was no sign of the portrait on the cameras at his Manhattan apartment building when he got home nearly two hours later, the lawsuit said.

And the next morning, Haggerty told painting co-owner Thomas A. Doyle III he "could not recall its whereabouts, citing that he had had too much to drink the previous evening," according to the lawsuit filed Monday in a Manhattan state court.

Trudgeon is seeking what she says is the roughly $1.3 million value of the painting, which spent years in the collection of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, according to museum spokeswoman Sarah Stifler.

Steady gaze
News service Bloomberg reported that Haggerty would have made $25,000 if the painting, which shows a young woman with a steady gaze, wide forehead and white lace collar, was sold.

A London dealer, Offer Waterman, had been interested in buying the picture, Bloomberg cited the complaint as saying.

Haggerty didn't immediately return phone messages left Tuesday at two possible home numbers for him and at his office at a company that leases out private jets.

Proto-Impressionist
Doyle isn't involved in the lawsuit and didn't return a message left for him at his office at the same jet company. He is a friend of Haggerty's and involved him in the effort to sell the painting, according to Trudgeon's lawyer, Max Di Fabio.

Corot, who lived from 1796 to 1875, was an important figure among the proto-Impressionist group known as the Barbizon School. Members turned their backs on Parisian urbanity to embrace a back-to-the-land emphasis on painting scenes of rural French life, often doing their artwork outdoors.

Trudgeon, who also was acquainted with Haggerty, owns a small portion of the painting, Di Fabio said. He said he had no information on whether it was insured.

Trudgeon "was terribly hurt and dismayed and disappointed," Di Fabio said. "She just would like some answers."

"Portrait of a Girl" left the Hammer Museum's collection in 2007, when the museum and a related foundation parted ways, Stifler said.

The museum was established by oil baron Armand Hammer and is now affiliated with the University of California-Los Angeles.

The museum agreed to return "Portrait of a Girl" and dozens of other paintings to a Hammer-related foundation, and the foundation was allowed to sell the Corot canvas and a few others, Stifler said.

A message left Tuesday at a telephone number listed on the foundation's tax returns was not immediately returned.

Di Fabio said he wasn't sure when Trudgeon and Doyle acquired the painting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38948173/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[sixfootsixtallguy]

what a dumba$$ lol

[Addie.Aynsley]

dude, major facepalm

[coloradocowgirl]

Art historians are one step closer to discovering the identity of a royal painter thanks to scientific research.

Analysis by the National Portrait Gallery of two renowned portraits of Elizabeth I has shown they were painted on wood from the same two trees.

The 16th century paintings have been associated with artist Nicholas Hilliard for many years.

Curator Tarnya Cooper said the research meant the work is probably that of Hilliard or someone working with him.

The two paintings will be shown for the first time together in 25 years for one week only when they go on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London between 13 and 19 September.

Researchers spent about nine weeks studying the portraits and concluded they must have come from the same studio, as the wooden panels they are painted on derive from the same two oak trees.

The two portraits were painted when Elizabeth I was in her early forties, almost halfway through her reign.

The titles of the two works - Pelican and Phoenix - stem from the jewels worn by the queen in each portrait.

Researchers also found that a tracing of the pattern of the Phoenix portrait matches the Pelican portrait in reverse, making it even more likely they were painted around the same time.

The Phoenix belongs to the National Portrait Gallery but has been on loan to Tate Britain since 1965.

The Pelican belongs to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

The portraits were last seen together in an exhibition in 1983 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11277451

[coloradocowgirl]

A new portrait of the Queen is being unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery before it goes on display on the latest Cunard cruise ship.

The portrait will be revealed by artist Isobel Peachey, 31, at the London gallery on Monday evening.

Peachey is believed to be the youngest woman to have painted an official portrait of the Queen.

The Queen will see the finished work for the first time on 11 October.

It will be during an official visit to Southampton when Her Majesty will name the new liner Queen Elizabeth.

The painting shows the Queen dressed in blue and wearing a Queen Victoria necklace and earrings that she also wore for her Coronation.

The portrait will then go on display in a prominent position in the ship's Grand Lobby.

Peachey said she was surprised to find out she would be painting the monarch.

"At my interview with Cunard, I answered many questions about how I would approach an important commission - but it was only at the end of the interview that the subject was revealed as the Queen," she said.

"This was both a shock and a marvellous surprise," she added.

Peter Shanks, Cunard's president and managing director, said Peachey was the youngest female artist to paint the Queen.

He described it as a "truly wonderful picture".

"It is even more remarkable when you consider that, lacking a private studio, she executed this magnificent painting in her mum's attic!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11373234

[leighanneslittlehorns]

ANN CEO Christopher MacDonald has issued several statements regarding the past weekend’s leak of OreImo episode 2 ahead of the Japanese TV airing and subsequent North American stream this past weekend.

MacDonald has confirmed that the leak was not as simple as initially suspected with the simple change in URL, rather that it required advanced knowledge of streaming protocols and that the counter measures in place to prevent such leaks were not functioning. As far as refunds go, they will be issued to those that had paid for access to the HD streams for both OreImo and togainu no Chi.

http://www.animenews.biz/

[PackerGirl]

I thought this would be a nice place for all of us to post our work and get various comments and critiques. Whether it be fan art, anime, various wallpapers, icons, or anything else you enjoy making. Or if photography is your passion and you want to display your work, then that would be amazing too!

Plus, it's a great way to see how our fellow posters like to be creative and expressive on a daily basis! :)

[PackerGirl]

Most of my art has been working with Gimp and Photofiltre. And since I've done a lot of photography in the past, I decided to focus on some fan art. In case some of you have seen the show, these are from The Vampire Diaries.

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[Alexa]

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[Hardwired Flaws]

Thats pretty cool.

My Work is my music.
Heres a song I recorded a couple weeks ago. ( I play everything you hear)

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=9311215

[PackerGirl]

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