How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet
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Hilma af Klint's family criticises the NFT sale of the artist's sacred paintings – digital drop contradicts the artist's will and goes against her artistic intentions
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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Caravaggio was the other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
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FBI raids Orlando museum and seized all twenty-five works in their Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition after an affidavit called into question their origin and their authenticity
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Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making
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Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack. Famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn't damaged.
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Why does this lady have a fly on her head?
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Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view
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The collective MSCHF bought a Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250. The catch: you'll never know which one is real.
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on The Scream, infrared scans have shown – a small and barely visible sentence has been the cause of much conjecture in the art world
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Art markets: New York bodegas in watercolor
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Jacob Lawrence painting, missing for decades, is found by Met visitor
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Conserving a painting by Sir Winston Churchill
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A New Dawn: The restoration of L'Aurora part two
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Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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A New Dawn: The Restoration of L'Aurora Part 1
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Blue skies smilin' at me; conserving a Henry Ranger seascape
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The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps
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The opening of the long-awaited Munch Museum in Oslo has been postponed until the autumn due to delays in the building process
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is 'unmistakably' his work
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Big isn't better, it's just better; the restoration of St. Francis
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The conservation of Salvator Mundi (No, not that one)
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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Is this $30m portrait the 'last Botticelli'?
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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The conservation of George Inness' "The Roman Campagna"
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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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A painting long thought to be a fake Botticelli turned out to be real. British conservators confirmed the authenticity of “Madonna of the Pomegranate” via X-ray and infrared tests.
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Newly uncovered Georgia O'Keeffe letters shed light on her greatest paintings
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Thieves steal a famous painting from an Italian church — But don't worry, it's fake
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Restoration of an Icon of Ave Maria on wood
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Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Banksy painting self-destructs after fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s
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How one man is recreating lost colors
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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How do I get "good" at art?
So this is the dumb post of the day. Bear with me. All I can say about art (like paintings and sculpture) is "is cool", "I like it", "it makes me sad" and look like a complete idiot totally out of...
So this is the dumb post of the day. Bear with me.
All I can say about art (like paintings and sculpture) is "is cool", "I like it", "it makes me sad" and look like a complete idiot totally out of place. (On the other hand, I can deliver a nuanced analysis of graffiti and hip hop so yeah it's all about the background.) I want to take my partner to a museum and start saying fancy shit like "oh you see the lines here these remind me of Donatello's style of light and shadow". Like I know it's possibly the dumbest thing to want but I really would like to learn more about it and be able to give informed opinions on art pieces.
Anyway, any recommendations? Maybe some youtube videos or some books? Or should I just say that everything past 1400 is derivative?
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The rare blue the Mayans invented
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The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch - an online interactive adventure
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Vermont artist Wolf Kahn shows true colors
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‘Ivan the Terrible’ painting damaged in Russia in vodka-fueled attack
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French museum discovers more than half its collection is forged
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