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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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This rapid growth achieved new attention in 2021, when digital artist Michael Joseph Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, sold his non-fungible token (NFT) work, Everydays: The First 5000 Days , at a Christie’s auction for nearly $70 million. DappRadar reports that since 2021 the market for these digitally born creations has plummeted by 93%.

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Revealed: how Van Gogh's nephew exchanged two of the artist's drawings for butter and bacon

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© Martin Bailey In early 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Vincent van Gogh’s nephew gave two of the artist’s drawings to the owner of a cheese business—in exchange for 35 packets of butter and a little meat. Van Gogh never found a buyer for the drawings and they later passed down to his nephew. By the 1930s V.W.

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How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The Art Newspaper

First, an oil paint printer makes the original, unmodified image and then the wet oil painting is put through an XY-axis drawing robot. I wanted to create a single portrait where our authentic selves and the ‘ideal’ self messily coexist,” Andrew says. “I We’re often told to be different—by society, family or even algorithms.

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With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

The Art Newspaper

After his first work, Van Gogh went on to complete three more paintings of the bridge, alongside four drawings and a watercolour—evidence that it was an important motif for him. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK and US ).

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Collecting Bob Dylan: A Poetry Perspective

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This copy sold for $6,000 in 2021. This tendency is one of Dylan’s greatest strengths: the music draws you in initially, but if you pay closer attention, the lyrics hide another reward. It draws on French symbolism and vivid imagery if viewed as a poem. A pristine, first edition of Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan.

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Great Discoveries: Degas Art Found for $1 May Be Worth $13M

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The Éloge du maquillage drawing produced by French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. Image Source: Juan Arjona via Artnet Legendary French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas produced pastel drawings and many other masterpieces in the 19th century. The drawing was listed for $1 and received a lot of interest. It sold for $1,000.

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Rae Dunn Pottery: Love It or Leave It?

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I viewed a 2021 Facebook Reel showing shoppers at a store battling it out for a shelf of Dunn pottery, accented with “Rae Dunn women are crazy!” Look for Obscure Pieces : Coffee mugs are generally easier to sell if you’ve found something authentic, but only bother with new ones if you plan to keep them for a long time.