Size-zero Botticellis: Anna Utopia Giordano
Miss Giordano used Photoshop to slim down famous buxom nudes by Botticelli and Titian and bring them into line with 21st century concepts of what women should ideally look like.
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(Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9074356/Size-zero-Botticellis-Anna-Utopia-Giordano-Photoshops-Venus-Renaissance-masterpieces-by-Titian.html)
Rembrandt Self-portrait Detected under Painting
Advanced X-ray technology has revealed an unfinished self-portrait by the 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. The portrait was detected beneath an oil painting depicting an old man with a gray beard.
(Full story here: http://news.discovery.com/history/rembrandt-self-portrait-111205.html)
Marni Kotak, an artist whose plans to give birth in a New York gallery as an act of performance art provoked criticism and concern, delivered a healthy baby boy Tuesday. Kotak, 36, gave birth to baby Ajax, weighing nine pounds and two ounces at 21 inches at 10:17 a.m., before an audience in a home birthing center she constructed at the Microscope Gallery.
Interesting news story that broke this afternoon:
Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.
(Full Story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html)
The innate love for art, and for creating, is so interesting.
X-ray reveals hidden Goya painting
A previously unknown painting by Francisco de Goya has been found hidden underneath one of his masterpieces, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has announced.
(Full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15018174)
I love things like this. I love the fact that we x-ray paintings.
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