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art prices break records

Bruno Dillen — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:28:51 +0000

Is there still a crisis going on? Art record prices keep on breaking. Early this month Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” became the most expensive artwork sold at auction, after it fetched $ 119.9 million. This week not only pop-art-artist Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping girl” was sold for $ 45 million, “Orange, red, yellow” by Mark Rothko, broke the previous record for a work of his hand and is now the most expensive work of contemporary art with a pricetag of $ 86,9 million.

new drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder discovered in Antwerp

Bruno Dillen — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:03:53 +0000

In Antwerp, for the first time since the seventies unknown work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder surfaced. The landscape will be shown in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh.

The drawing of a mountain landscape with two passengers is the first unknown drawing of the artist to show up since the seventies. According to the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, the work “both in composition and drawing techniques has all characteristics of Bruegel‘s work from the period 1552-1555.”

The museum describes the drawing as invaluable. “Bruegel has a very limited oeuvre: forty sixty paintings and prints. Such a rare work of such a great artist hardly ever appears.”

artists in action – Claude Monet

Bruno Dillen — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:45:37 +0000

In our series of Artists in action, today some idyllic pictures of Claude Monet‘s working place.

‘Claude Monet Painting’ by John Singer Sargent shows the master at work.

In his ‘studio boat’, painted by Edouard Manet.

Monet at his studio.

Claude Monet in his famous garden, in front of the immortalized Japanese bridge.

artists in action – Gustav Klimt

Bruno Dillen — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:34:07 +0000

Gustav Klimt – not at work but in his ‘habitat’.

Gustav Klimt’s Last Studio (1912-1918)

wearing his painter’s coat.

artists in action – Paul Klee

Bruno Dillen — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:23:59 +0000

a new artist in the series of ‘Artists in Action‘.

Paul Klee in his studio in Bern, 1939. (Felix Klee, Zentrum, Paul Klee, Bern, Klee Family Donation)

photoshopped women in paintings

Bruno Dillen — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:48:07 +0000

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano took a Photoshop scalpel to 12 famous nude Venuses to see what art history class would’ve been like “if the aesthetic standard of our society had belonged to the collective unconscious of the great artists of the past.”

They remind me of the before and after adds in magazines, in which 20 pounds suddenly melt away. I wonder which one you prefer. The 21st century eye tends to choose the slim version.

Alessandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus

William-Aldolphe Bouguereau, The Birth of Venus

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Venus Anadyomene

Angelo Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time

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artists in action: Paul Cézanne

Bruno Dillen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:11:50 +0000

In the series of ‘Artists in Action‘, today some pictures of Paul Cezanne at work.

Paul Cézanne in his studio at Les Lauves in front of ‘Large Bathers‘ (Photo by Émile Bernard, 1904).

At Mont Sainte Victoire (photographed by Kerr-Xavier Roussel in January 1906).

artists in action – Salvador Dali

Bruno Dillen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:00:25 +0000

Let’s restart our series of Artists in Action.

Salvador Dali most of the time appears to be goofing around or showing his distinctive moustache. How about some pictures of him in action?

‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’. Funny how nowhere in the picture a naked women is to be found.

Working at ‘Dream of Venus’.

In 1965, working on the Bullfight series.

Salvador Dali in his Studio, by Ernst Scheidegger.

art inspired outfits

Bruno Dillen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:34:15 +0000

Art can inspire you in many different ways, even when you want to pick a new outfit.

Inspired by ‘Woman with a Water Jug‘ by Jan Vermeer.

Inspired by Amedeo Modigliani‘s ‘Gypsy Woman with Baby‘.

Inspired by ‘Young Mother Sewing‘ by Mary Cassatt.

An outfit inspired by ‘Music‘ by Gustav Klimt.

for more art inspired outfits go to georgina-m’s polivore collection.

interactive starry night by Vincent van Gogh

Bruno Dillen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:01:07 +0000

A visualisation of the flow of the famous painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.