Vincent Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists. When I ran across this painting, I was not familiar with it, so I did some investigating. It was explained (on vincentvangogh.org) that a fellow student in Paris remembered Vincent buying these boots at a flea market, hoping to use them for a still life. But […]
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November
10
Valuable…or Not?
posted by laurieetta
Just when you think you’ve seen it all. Today, we are not looking at some great Renaissance masterpiece, but something quite different. Paint has been replaced with dryer lint, meticulously placed by Laura Bell of Roscommon, Mich., to create a 14 ft. wide by 4 ft. high reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. The […]
May
27
A Work in Progress
posted by laurieetta
This is another painting I discovered on my recent visit to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis. It is a work in progress painted by American artist Charles Loring Elliott in 1850 of fellow artist and writer, Henry J. Brent. Elliott was considered the best portrait artist of his day and is said to […]
February
12
What is Your Worth?
posted by laurieetta
Did you know the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911? Before it was taken, it was not widely known outside the art world. Historian, James Zug, said it wasn’t “even the most famous painting in the gallery, let alone in the Louvre.” Yet, during the two years it was gone, more people […]
May
26
What are you worth?
posted by laurieetta
Say that I am standing in front of a group of people and I pull a $20 bill out my purse and say, “I’ve got a $20 bill here and it’s yours if you want it. Who wants it?” I imagine many people would raise their hands. I tear up the $20 bill and ask, “Who […]
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