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The Photo of the Day

Conversation Near the Statue, 1933 Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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The Work of the Day

Sign, RUXANDRA PAPA July 29, 2006

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Painting of the day, July 23, 2006

Vasile Pop Negresteanu

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Painting of the day, July 22, 2006

Nude with flowers, Horea Cucerzan July 22, 2006

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Woman with Flowers, Constantin Daradici

Woman with flowers, Constantin Daradici

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Masters of Photography

Fox Talbot - one of the greatest figures of the 19th century - mathematician, physicist, clasicist, phylologist and transcriber of Syrian and Chaldean cuneiform texts. In late September 1840 he invented the positive - negative process and he is known The Father of Modern Photography. Fox Talbot, Haystack, 1844...

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Salvador Dali, June 2006

The jealousy of other painters has always been the thermometer of my success. The bloody osmosis of dreams and love are really filling the life of a man. Mistakes have near always a sacred essence. Don't ever try to make them right. The...

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The Real Da Vinci Code

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A world without Romania

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Jean Gabin

Born Jean-Alexis Moncorg� in Paris , France , he grew up in the village of Meriel in the Seine-et-Oise departement about 22 miles (35 kilometers) north of the city of Paris . The son of cabaret entertainers, he worked as a laborer, but at age 19 entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergeres production. He...

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dal� I Domenech was born on the morning of May 11, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. Figueres is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French border in the principality of Catalonia. The son of a prosperous notary, Dal� spent his boyhood in Figueres and at the...

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Vienna Secession

(1897-1939) Austrian Artistic Movement In 1897 a group of Artists, such as Otto Wagner and his gifted students, Josef Hoffmann and Josef Olbrich, with Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and others aspired to the renaissance of the arts and crafts and to bring more abstract and purer forms to the designs of buildings and...

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Rene LALIQUE

(1860-1945) French jeweler, perfume bottles designer and glass artist After training and studying in Paris , France , Lalique began his career as jewelry designer and created the first truly modern pieces in Art Nouveau style. Raising jewelry to the status of fine art, he experimented new techniques and used new...

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Victor HORTA

(1861-1947) Belgian art nouveau architect, decorator and designer Victor Horta was one of the leading architect and designer of Art Nouveau and his style inspired many modernist artists all over Europe . He also influenced the aesthetic ideals the avant-garde group of artists in Belgium , such as "Les...

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Louis Comfort TIFFANY

(1848-1933) American craftsman, glassware and lamp designer Louis Comfort Tiffany possessed an artistic vision of great creativity and in 1882 he began designing glasswork of remarkable beauty in typical Art Nouveau Style. In 1902, he became art director of his father's legendary company, Tiffany & Co. in New York . He...

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Charles Rennie MACKINTOSH

(1868-1928) Scottish architect, furniture designer and painter At the peak of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Scotland or England , Charles Rennie Mackintosh was the founder of the " Glasgow School ", an outstanding architecture and decoration style, forerunner of Modern Movement in Scotland ....

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Emile GALLE

Emile GALLE (1846-1904) French glass maker, ceramist and designer Born in Nancy , France , in 1846, Emile Galle is considered one of the most outstanding glass artists of his time, as he greatly contributed to the development of the art of glassmaking and to the Art Nouveau Style. He...

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Antoni GAUDI CORNET

(1852-1926) Spanish architect and crafts artist Antoni Gaud� I Cornet studied and practiced architecture in Barcelona , Spain . He was influenced by the romantic movement "La Renaixen�a Catalan" and in 1890 he proceeded to Modernismo, the Catalan version of Art Nouveau and Jugendstil. One of his...

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Gustav Klimt

" I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do." Gustav Klimt...

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Art Nouveau

The term Art Nouveau is French and means New Art. It was an extraordinary movement in art history from the end of the nineteenth century and lasted from about 1880 to 1915. The style is characterized by using organic, ornamental shapes and patterns and by integrating all aspects of art and design. Art Nouveau was an...

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Manet

Edouard Manet is often identified with the "Impressionists," and was influenced by them. However, because of the Paris art world's generally hostile regard for "Impressionism," he chose not to exhibit with them. He preferred to show his work in the more conservative exhibitions sponsored by the French government....

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Constantin Brancusi

Brancusi was born in a Romanian village and attended the Fine Arts Academy in Bucharest . In 1904, he moved to Paris where in 1908; he met Matisse and Modigliani and soon became one of the central figures of the modern movement. From 1913, Brancusi had an international reputation, and his work had entered major art collections in...

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Villagers claim church fresco is lost Michelangelo

Parishioner's confession leads to discovery of monogram behind altar The fresco, attributed to Michelangelo, was discovered behind an altar in a village church in Chianti , Italy . No one else knows what the pensioner told the priest about what he got up to when he was a naughty altar boy. But his confession holds out thetantalising...

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Franz Liszt - biography

Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) Liszt was the son of a steward in the service of the Esterh�zy family, patrons of Haydn. He was born in 1811 at Raiding in Hungary and moved as a child to Vienna , where he took piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from Salieri. His father, Adam, and...

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Old West Art Museum "Dumitru Minovici'

Old West Art Museum "Dumitru Minovici", Bucharest This amazing red brick, mock Tudor house holds the small and dusty renaissance art collection of Dumitru Minovici, who made barrels of lei in the oil business in the 1930s. A tour around the Belgian tapestries, Dutch furniture, Swiss stained glass, a complete library and Italian...

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