http://www.allartnews.com Art News for Art Lovers Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:10:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time – Karl Marx Since ancient age to modern art we have come across multiple art styles & movements. Most of them were new creation or transformation of one or other styles. Efforts ... http://www.allartnews.com/art-history-styles-movements-of-western-art/ In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has put English-language translations of 902 of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters on line. Van Gogh was a native of Holland who spent much of his career in France, which naturally means that he often ... http://www.allartnews.com/van-goghs-personal-letters-debut-online-in-english/ Paris - Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese – rivalry emerges Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Dolomites, came under the Venetian spell through his apprenticeship with the Bellini clan and Giorgione. He swiftly rose to fame in Venice from 1520, then throughout Italy and Europe. Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) ... http://www.allartnews.com/the-louvre-exhibits-titian-tintoretto-veronese-a-venetian-rivalry/ Impressionism, a nineteenth century Parisian art movement, began almost by chance with the unveiling of Claude Monet’s famous painting, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, sunrise). The term Impressionism was applied pejoratively to Monet’s painting by art critic Louis Leroy in a review of the work, and since then adherents have gathered happily ... http://www.allartnews.com/monet%e2%80%99s-lily-pads-at-the-museum-of-modern-art/ NEW YORK — Christie’s scored beyond all hope on Tuesday night in a sale of Impressionist and Modern art that was alarmingly thin. Of the 40 paintings and sculptures offered, 28 realized an aggregate $65.67 million. In a market starved for goods, the modest signs of an apparent economic recovery in ... http://www.allartnews.com/christies-amasses-65-67-million-in-a-sparse-impressionist-sale/ As the dormant construction sites all over the city can attest, with the bust of New York's building boom, being an architect in this city has gone from being lucrative to depressing. The Bronx Museum of the Arts and MoMA are doing what they can to keep architects and urban ... http://www.allartnews.com/museums-giving-unemployed-architects-something-to-do/ LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center presents "In Focus: The Worker", a photographic history of working people across a variety of cultures. Drawn exclusively from the Getty’s permanent collection, "In Focus: The Worker" includes photographs from the mid-nineteenth century through the ... http://www.allartnews.com/j-paul-getty-museum-opens-a-photographic-history-of-working-people/ Walking into Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen's installation at the Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is like entering an uncannily organic and completely original environment. And like any environment, their sprawling, climbing, splaying and merging forest crafted from bright red paper feels different every time you pass through. On a ... http://www.allartnews.com/green-and-brown-and-red-all-over/ “The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation” is a riveting — and tragic — documentary film chronicling the gratuitous ruin of a school outside Philadelphia that houses an incomparable art collection. It's a classic story of destroying the village in order to save it. Except this ... http://www.allartnews.com/the-art-of-the-steal-the-untold-story-of-the-barnes-foundation/ NEW YORK, NY.- Rare and important works by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian are among the highlights of Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3rd. Forty exceptional works will be offered, including ... http://www.allartnews.com/fall-auctions-off-to-a-limp-start-at-christies/