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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

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Endlessly scrolling, swiping, and double-tapping amid a wave of stories, photos, and tweets, it’s easy to feel the weight of now, and art has been swept into this current. While artistic styles and trends have evolved and morphed over the centuries, an enclave of revered artists and artworks remain unbound by visual trends or the medium used.

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Painting Fast and Loose: The Comeback of Alla Prima in Contemporary Practice

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What is alla prima painting, and why is it coming back into fashion in contemporary practice? Alla Prima Painting from the Collector’s Perspective Just as artists increasingly turn to alla prima painting, so too are collectors tapped into the trend. John Singer Sargent – Mildred Carter.

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A hundred years on, Cork Street is the beating heart of London’s art scene once more

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It was only through incessant petitions to the government from Guggenheim and her adviser, the artist Marcel Duchamp, that the work was eventually released on the condition that it would be shown in a back office of her gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, which occupied the second floor at 30 Cork Street.

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How Investors Can Thrive in a Lopsided Art Market

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Authorities on art investment worry that the budding romance could end quickly and badly. The market for fine art seems benign, even healthy, on the surface. billion, a shade under the 2007 all-time high, according to the recently published annual report of The European Fine Art Fair. Global sales rose 7.5

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New Frida Kahlo museum to open in Mexico City

The Art Newspaper

"Frida’s writing is creative, witty and sharply observant of her time," says Ana Garduño, a researcher at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts, "revealing her voice and intriguing personality throughout.") In a way, Frida staged her life as an artwork.”

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Plein Air Paintings: Capturing the Essence of Nature

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In this fashion, the simple and the everyday could become as mesmerizing as the most exotic or imagined far-off land. Changes in the weather, light, passing onlookers and other fluctuating conditions have to be taken into account. Yet the key element was to be guided by their own eyes and sensory instincts.