And don't forget the eye candy: If you can't afford to have painters do your whole house, just have them freshen the rooms that get the hardest wear (usually the kitchen and baths), as well as the front door.
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From its brass bands to its renowned pianists, from its leading painters to legendary clarinet and saxophone players, the culture of New Orleans is the soul of the city and was one of its most powerful economic engines before Katrina.
Whereas Picasso knew how to compete against fellow painters from Georges Braque to Henri Matisse, Duchamp could not be beat.
Curators refused to show his work, and over the years, many museums de-accessioned Bouguereau and other academic painters to acquire more "progressive" art.
Art-historical references to such abstract painters as Franz Kline, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko pass through the stage pictures.
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The real value of aboriginal art lies in a heritage that can be traced to the earliest known painters.
For a young group of painters later to achieve fame as the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, the summer of love came in 1857.
"Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (1973) was, by contrast, devoted to an artist whose aims were opposed to those of the painters with whom Golding felt deep affinity.
His creation of their self-portraits showed their shared sympathies across time and nationality: Painters belonged to the same culture, and could understand each other in ways that museum professionals and peddlers could never comprehend.
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Writers and painters seem to pick up the gauntlet only when pushed to the wall or when under a spotlight (why did a petition by India's writers to the government to lift the ban on The Satanic Verses come 23 years after the book was banned?).
The artistic love affair with the American West dates back to the early 19th century, when a few intrepid painters trudged through the wilderness to paint the untamed landscape.
In contrast to the 18th-century vedutisti painters (Canaletto, Guardi and others) who capture images of Venice down to the last detail, Sargent imparts an evanescent place, where shimmering light constantly changes not just the water but even the supposedly immobile structures.
Late-19th-century atmosphere gives way to fragmentation and stylization as Modernist 20th-century painters manipulate the traditional elements of landscape less to depict nature than as components of a painterly composition.
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This alternately bucolic and brooding landscape inspired painters not just to depict the actual topography but often to clothe it in Byronic atmosphere.
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And who is to say what kicks renaissance painters such as Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) got out of portraying St Sebastian posing so elegantly when riddled with arrows?
San Miguel, located about 300km north of Mexico City, attracts US retirees, hippies, snowbirds, artists, painters and sculptors to its spicy-coloured, 17th- and 18th-century Colonial architecture and temperate climate.
"The 'Card Player' series is one of the most important of the modern era, influencing so many of the painters who sought to follow in Cezanne's footsteps, " said Kim.
One reason Morisot took off, experts say, is because she and artists like Mary Cassatt have styles similar to those of famous male painters of the period, in this case Manet and Renoir.
Nonetheless, it is worth reading for its fascinating discussion of the two painters' opposing approaches to their art.
Mr Pearson Wright, aged 25, is only one of several young portrait painters who have come to the fore in recent years.
According to the website Artprice, Chinese painters Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian now outsell Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso at auction.
These pioneering painters introduced the west to a larger American audience.
From the cave painters through Greek myth to the fiction factory of Hollywood, people have sought to make sense of their world by developing a compelling narrative.
He allows his sitters to select the backdrop for their picture and, although these exuberant canvases of dream homes, high-tech living rooms and gleaming cityscapes owe much to the conventions of African sign painters and folk artists, they talk of the aspirations of modern Ghanaians.
The exhibits are timed to coincide with international art fairs and fashion weeks, and they feature exuberant painters, like Nicolas Pol and Ouattara Watts, likely to appeal to younger, newer collectors.
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We spent hours on the phone to get bids from beleaguered roofers, painters and carpenters.
Bad painters may persuade a buyer to pay over the odds and good ones may sell themselves short.
In the centenary year of his birth, several are devoted to one of the most accomplished Scottish painters of the century, William Gillies.
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