The artist said he would spend his prize money attempting to live "more like his paintings".
In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings and the weather is always perfect.
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His early works are dreamy and hazy, looking more like impressionistic paintings than photographs due to extended exposure times and various dark room manipulations, which had purists griping that, with so much meddling, his works could not possibly be considered true photographs.
It's a quality, he points out, that has inspired artists like Edward Hopper, who returned repeatedly to the empty warmth of road cafes and petrol stations in paintings like Gas and Automat.
The white of his expansive tabletops in paintings like "The Table" and "The White Table Cloth" resembles an emission of light rather than a pigment, so the haphazardly strewn plates and baskets appear to be floating or suspended in space.
Intercut with Smith's journey are reflections on the rarity of paintings like Vermeer's The Concert, and the account of Boston Herald reporter Tom Mashberg 's possible sighting of one of the stolen works, Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Gallilee, " in a Boston warehouse in 1997.
His religious paintings are like theatrical set pieces in confined spaces with subjects modelled on people he had picked up on the streets of Rome.
Like so many categories of paintings, this kind of portraiture hit its market peak around 1990.
Remember the way the original film was a lot like watching actors walking inside paintings and drawings on a fairy tale page?
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If one accumulated wealth by legitimate means, was one entitled to "squander" it on beautiful, useless rarities like tulips, or indeed paintings and gems?
Placed in the gallery like pulse points, these ancestral paintings are surrounded by Fortuny's own life's work, which would leap from two dimensions to three.
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The Nazis took possession of paintings by classic artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Rembrandt, as well as more recent painters like Renoir, Degas or Picasso.
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"It keeps the nautical theme without being too literal, " Mr. Zappi said, much like some of Ms. Zappi's paintings.
The history of art is filled with visual hoaxes, such as Arcimboldo's 17th-century paintings of vegetables arranged to look like human faces.
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But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
But to use it as the signifier for 35 paintings by 27 artists over 79 years seems like nothing more than an advertising ploy.
But when it came to paintings he had bought only figurative work, like a pretty oil of a vase of flowers by Milton Avery.
Both auction houses said their new Hong Kong galleries represent a key part of their plans to broaden the palate of China's art buyers, who are still more interested in Chinese paintings than they are in household Western names like Pablo Picasso.
Like Mr Alys on his walks, the figures in his paintings seem to be wandering alone, constantly in search of someone or something.
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He distinguishes between them and earlier American collectors like Paul Mellon, who concentrated on a fabulous collection of British paintings.
The couple's love for traditional Mexican art can be seen throughout the house, from the large fireplace designed by Rivera that dominates the first room, resembling a step pyramid like the ones built by the Mayas and Aztecs, to Kahlo's paintings and the couple's collection of smaller sculptures.
At Araxi, also in Whistler Village, the dining room decorated with fresh flowers and original paintings sets a romantic background for a dinner of freshly caught Pacific seafood like halibut or white prawn risotto served alongside local tomatoes, beetroot or mushrooms.
At sales of collections from grandees like Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Amelia, the bourgeoisie bought the oil paintings, bronze sculptures and decorative masterpieces that transformed them into faux aristocrats.
And - but Earl Green could never sell his paintings because to an art dealer or a gallery owner, they just looked like psychedelic art from the '60s and they really didn't have much else going for them.
De Kooning relished studio experiments, like mixing oil paint with water for puckered textures, or off-printing parts of wet paintings onto pages of the Times, making a mad science of beauty.
But by the time Coca-Cola was finished carpet-bombing the planet with its vision of Santa Claus, there was no doubt what Santa Claus looked like: He looked like Haddon Sundbloom, who used himself as a model for many of his later Coca-Cola paintings.
Like a mini-carnival, it is a popular place for local artists and craftsmen to sell the latest paintings, wood carvings and jewellery from their makeshift stalls.
On one long wall is a series of enormous, predominantly white paintings by Robert Ryman and Andy Warhol and a mirror-finished copper work by Donald Judd, like a polished jewel among them.
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