Art auction, historic window preservation events taking place Sunday in Saline
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
From the Circle of Art website
Saline will be the home to two interesting events Sunday – a benefit auction for Food Gatherers at Saline Picture Frame and an educational program about window restoration at the Rentschler Farm.
Saline Picture Frame and Dexter Picture Frame companies are hosting the eighth annual Circle of Art auction and party, while the proceeds will be donated to Food Gatherers. The auction runs from noon to 5 p.m.
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Pablo Picasso – A Cubist Movement Icon And Co-founder
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
Pablo Picasso was a very talented person during his time and he has one of the longest names in the world, his real full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. He was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and was known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture.
Shown on cubism painting is entitled “Three Musicians” and was done in 1921. Analytic cubism is a style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors. T [More Art Online Galleries]
Art, Movies, Theatre: Volunteering Can Take Many Forms
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
The Town of Danville provides opportunities for residents to contribute to their community by volunteering for various events and programs. Volunteers will have the opportunity to discover new interests, meet new people, and develop new skills. Different opportunities exist; below are a few projects that will be coming up. Sign up online at www.danville.ca.gov, type “volunteer” in the search box and click on the first result.
Kid’s Night Out: Children, ages 3 to 11 years old, spend Friday nights creating arts and crafts, playing games, eating snack and enjoying a movie. Volunteers, 16 and up, are needed to help staff prepare sna [More Art Online Galleries]
Out of the box: Mobile Museum of Art exhibits ‘Boxes and Their Makers’ through …
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
‘Tooling Tennessee Box’ by Tommy Simpson. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)MOBILE, Alabama — Pandora’s box contained all the sins and evils of the world, according to Greek mythology.
“The gods warned her not to open the box, but when her curiosity got the better of her she raised the lid and scattered disease and trouble all over the world,” writes Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., in his introduction to the book “New Masters of the Wooden Box: Expanding the Boundaries of Box Making.”
By the time she shut the lid, “only hope remained,” Fitzgerald writes. “Who can resist opening a box?”
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Free online catalogue explores one of the finest portrait miniature …
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announces its pilot project in digital publishing, British Portrait Miniatures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. This catalogue showcases a substantial portion of the museums internationally known collection of around 170 portrait miniatures, one of the most significant in the country. The first stage of this searchable online catalogue includes 54 British portrait miniatures from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with publication of the remaining British works ongoing though out the year. The catalogue presents new research on the individual miniatures, explores the museums collection h [More Art Online Galleries]
Heffel 2012 Spring Auction Reaches $14.6 Million in Sales
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
Rare Canadian works of art exceed estimates with Jean Paul Lemieux’s La plage américaine selling for $1.8 million and Emily Carr‘s Eagle Totem capturing $1.6 million
Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s Robert Heffel hammered down Emily Carr’s Eagle Totem at $1.6 million at tonight’s …
Highlights
Heffel’s Spring 2012 auction surpassed expectations, totalling $14.6
million in sales, further cementing Heffel Fine Art Auction House‘s
place as the leader in Canadian Art.
An exciting return to auction after his work sold at the 2011 Fall
auction for an international record breaking amount, Jean P [More Art Online Galleries]
Solon art auction benefits charity
May 19, 2012 | Author admin
View full sizeSolon High student Kathy Zhang presents artwork at the charity auction. Photo courtesy of Ezekial Badowski.
SOLON What started out as a small church project has now turned into a community-based, artistic and altruistic club at Solon High School.
In 2010, with help from a small group of her friends, senior Siriana Abboud volunteered to paint a mural at the Solon Community Church.
“We decided we liked it so much that we wanted to do something where we could continue giving back to the community through the use of artwork,” Abboud said.
In December 2010, the girls combined their skills to form Intrinsic Art, a phila [More Art Online Galleries]
Heffel's spring auction of Canadian fine art tops $14 million in sales
May 18, 2012 | Author admin
VANCOUVER – This spring’s Heffel auction of Canadian post-war and contemporary art far exceeded organizers expectations with sales totalling $14.6 million.
Before the bidding began the auction house had said it expected sales in the $9 to$12 million range.
The painting “La plage américaine” by Quebec artist Jean-Paul Lemieux fetched the highest price at $1,813,500 — nearly three times the pre-auction estimate.
Lemieux, who died in 1990, is considered one of the foremost Quebec painters of the 20th century.
Another of his paintings, “Le mois de juin,” sold for $380,250 at Thursday night’s auction.
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Two artists featured at News Center gallery
May 18, 2012 | Author admin
Cafe des Artiste
Sharon Mills, left, and Joan Cranor are exhibiting their work through June at the News Center’s Cafe des Artiste.
Posted: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:00 am
Two artists featured at News Center gallery
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EASTON The News Center’s Cafe des Artiste is featuring the work of artists Joan Cranor and Sharon Mills through June.
Cranor is a retired Talbot County art teacher who specializes in watercolors. Bay boats, birds and semi-abstract pieces are expresse [More Art Online Galleries]