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Chagall and Bella (A Love Story)

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Chagall and Bella (A Love Story) Chagall's love for his first wife Bella, using his own words from his autobiography My Life. Chagall's artwork depicts both Bella in life and Bella in death. These later images reveal the love he had for her that never died with her.

Marc Chagall has been my favorite artist since I first saw a show of his at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1985 (a couple of months after he died).

True Chagall fans will enjoy reading his autobiography My Life, as he writes just like he painted with seemingly no sense of time, space, or gravity

The video is set to Andre Rieu's interpretation of "Send in the Clowns." The original lyrics below remind me so much of how Chagall described life and art sometimes using obscure imagery and complex allusions to objects, color, and space in ways only he could truly understand.

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Digital Macro Photography Information

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Digital Macro Photography InformationThere are several ways to see everyday objects, but to see it from different angles, has a new or unusual lighting conditions, something very special to be considered. Here, the fascination with digital macro photography you will see things and live very close and is considered by many people in authority as a form of digital art. Something as mundane often seem a fascinating vision and creativity of an artist and a person with a technical as well.

Art has never claimed to contain all the truths of life, but shows the world through the eyes of the artist, and saw macro photography digital images we can share the opinions of others. It seems simple, but new to the digital macro photography is an art form, as mentioned above, and there are many things before you try to be observed.

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Giclee Printing - A True Fine Art Print Process?

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Giclee Printing ProcessThe association of giclee printing with its conceptual cousin - inkjet printing - has led some people to question the validity of this printing medium as a true fine art system. To address this, I think that it is first important to look at the history of fine art printmaking and see if giclee printing fulfill the parameters set out therein.

Fine art printmaking has traditionally been based on the concept of creating a master plate - known as the matrix - from the original and using this to reproduce a predetermined number of 'editions' of the original artwork.

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Skill of Buying Art

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Art Buying

If you don't love art, and are simply considering buying art as an investment, the best advice is to find something else to invest in. Collecting and buying art should be a labor of love, not a cold-hearted financial calculation.

There are many factors that a serious art collector should take into account when buying art. Here are some of the main ones:

1. Know Your Own Tastes

Never buy something just because an "art expert" tells you that it is a beautiful, classic piece of art. If the art piece means nothing to you, it's not worth you buying it.

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Women in Art Video

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Françoise by Picasso

This amazing video shows 90 art masterpieces from the second half of the 12th century until 1946. This video features paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, RafaelSandro Botticelli, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Giovanni Antonio BoltraffioGiovanni BelliniPietro Perugino, Antonello da Messina, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Memling, Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Pierre Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Fyodor Rokotov, Peter Paul Rubens, El Greco, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Joseph Karl Stieler, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Alphonse Maria Mucha, John Everett Millais, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Rene Magritte, Amedeo Modigliani, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and more.

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