You could frame the television like a painting (with help from specialty framers) and hang it above the fireplace, but the notion of "Masterpiece Theater" as Old Master is questionable.
Whether it is a pedigreed oil painting of the family (in the best of cases, a Sargent) or a plucky image of oneself (perhaps a Warhol, but probably not a Freud), people love to keep representations of their relatives near at hand.
This was probably for the best, since dinner the night before consisted of foie gras and a dessert called a chocolate volcano, which left Conor (my heir) looking like a painting by Jackson Pollock.
Sabiston, a professional programmer and engineer, got Nintendo to send him a DS software development kit which allowed him to pump out a sweet painting and animation app to make his DS bot a visual virtuoso (example pictured left).
London (CNN) -- A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life.
Enough of a common mind-set remains that when Rudolph Giuliani (another pro-choice Catholic politician) last year denounced a painting of the Virgin incorporating elephant dung, his approval rating jumped from 60% to 80% among white Catholics.
For example, his painting of a local teenager in Collioure, France, (pictured) had all the hallmarks of the bright and expressive colors from his Fauvism period, a style of painting that he helped to create.
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Just before closing time the previous day, a 28-year-old woman scrawled the 30cm (12in) graffito on the bottom of the painting and was immediately detained by a museum guard, France's 20 Minutes news website reported.
New York (CNN) -- A Salvador Dali painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery last week has been returned to the United States, New York police said.
Washington (CNN) -- A famous French painting stolen during World War I by the German Army was returned to the government of France by U.S. officials on Thursday.
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London (CNN) -- A newly discovered painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has sent shock waves through the art world, prompting speculation that more of his paintings could be as yet undiscovered.
London (CNN) -- A Pablo Picasso painting given to the Greek people in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens.
The stories come in order of composition, with dates, and in three sections, each of them flagged by a quietly resonant illustration (a view of the planet from outer space, a heavily restored classical fresco, a painting of a spectral cadaver).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not yet published its figures for retail sales in November, but for some time it has been painting a more reassuring picture than the BRC (see chart).
He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.
Ancient Rome was as likely to turn up in a painting of Queen Elizabeth as an American Indian cherub (with ostrich) in an engraving of London.
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These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).
We already know that from the 1882 painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (incongruously, a 1908 oil portrait of their father is included here).
Take, for example, the work of 80-year-old master Robert Rauschenberg, who has been making people see the world in a new way since he debuted his "combines" (so called because they combine painting and collage) at the Leo Castelli gallery in the late 1950s.
Professor Anderson thinks the lady could be Titian's mistress possibly his daughter Emilia's mother, who was a servant in his home in the 1550s (his wife Cecilia died in 1530) and that the painting is from the mid- to late-1550s.
His painting "Negro Masks" (1932) is displayed in the exhibition with the two sculptures that inspired the painting, a Yoruba Gelede helmet-mask from Nigeria and a Bwa mask from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arranged on a Kuba textile.
New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.
Janitors and cleaners (except maids and housekeeping cleaners) perform a range of duties from cleaning floors to taking out the garbage to painting and carpentry.
Though art schools of Istanbul are overcrowded and women (especially) are flocking to careers in art, few art students or young collectors have ever seen a painting by Picasso, by Rembrandt, by Warhol or Pollock or van Gogh outside the pages of a book.
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