newsletter 8- 15 July 2002
| QUOTES ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cézanne Do not fear mistakes - there are none. Miles David One day when I was drawing a young girl I suddenly noticed that the only thing that was alive was her gaze. The rest of her head . . . . meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man . . . . One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without a doubt his gaze. Alberto Giacometti INTERESTING LINKS ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ goodbrush.com click here The art of a painterly digital artist! Art Cafe click here articles, resources and activities since 1995 for creative people with an interest in painting and fine art ART IN THE NEWS ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Recently discovered Rubens becomes most expensive Old Master painting ever sold LONDON. A completely unknown painting by Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents made auction history last night when it sold at Sotheby’s, London for the quite astonishing figure of £49.5 million or US $76.73. click here Portrait of a collector as a young man Asked to recall his very first art purchases, made five decades ago while he was a student of law at Oxford University, Allan Gotlieb -- the 74-year-old former Canadian ambassador to the United States, former chair of the Canada Council, and current chairman of Sotheby's Canada -- remembers walking the banks of the Seine in Paris, during his university breaks, and browsing through bins of prints. click here Run of the mill Baltic is open, at last, at last. It has been hovering in the wings, delayed by builders - what else? - for months that turned into years. Conceived more than a decade ago, the site selected, the architect chosen, the director hired, it has had to dawdle while others hared ahead in the field - Glasgow, Walsall, Edinburgh and Dundee, not to mention Tate Modern. click here |
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