Morris was discovered by the Pre-Raphaelites, who were searching for models when painting the Oxford Union murals.
When painting royals and nobility, Zoffany only occasionally got beyond the superficiality of his subjects' clothes and settings.
When painting returned yet again from the dead in the 1980s, the big news was the neoexpressionism of David Salle, Julian Schnabel and the "Three C's" (Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Enzo Cucchi) from Italy.
When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.
When a painting becomes an icon, a psychological semi-translucent veil is placed over the work that partially obscures it from us.
When that painting was sold, there were more than 300 Lowry works in the store rooms of public collections in nearby Salford and Manchester, according to David Lee, editor of art magazine The Jackdaw.
The Leutze's gilded frame alone 12 feet by 21 feet and based on a Matthew Brady photograph when the painting was displayed during the Civil War at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair in New York to raise money for injured Union soldiers is a tour de force.
He was a su-perb artist but stopped his painting when one of his sons came down with tuberculosis.
"When I was painting in China, people didn't have the right to speak so I didn't give them mouths, " he explains.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-96), who started painting when she was 80, used intricate dot patterns and ribbon strokes to create some of her most famous paintings.
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Mr. Finkelstein landed in New York in the 1980s, just as a revival of decorative painting was hitting the U.S. He started his line of brushes and a school for decorative painting when he saw the lack of necessary equipment and training.
When you buy a painting, you are able, if you want to, to stop anyone else from seeing it.
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Nor is it to rule out the right of an individual artist to negotiate a resale agreement when he sells a painting: the royalties a publisher pays to an author are the product of just such a private contract, not a law.
When an artist creates a painting, there is only that one.
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Sometimes, not often, glancing into the house, the painters caught a glimpse of the woman whom they assumed to be the wife of the crippled man they had drunk whiskey with, who had shaken hands with both of them when the agreement about the painting was made.
When an old master's painting fetches tens of millions on the auction block, it makes headlines around the world.
After all, since when did the buyer of a painting whose price later drops expect to be compensated by the painter?
He first tried painting in 1980, when the company now known as Anheuser-Busch InBev NV sponsored an art project and asked him to create something representative of his sport.
Just as Matisse was a pillar of the glory years of 20th-century modernism, when he, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque reinvented what painting could be, Veronese was a vital presence during that astonishing moment in the 16th century when he, Titian and Tintoretto whose careers overlapped for nearly four decades, despite the differences in their ages together defined the Golden Age of Venetian painting.
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He kept buying photography and, when the impulse struck, the odd painting.
In 1906, Cezanne was painting near his beloved mountain when a thunderstorm soaked him and he had to be carried home in a laundry cart, unconscious.
Brian had travelled out for a visit and when he got a little weary of painting the homestead in Queensland he decided a trip to Sydney was the answer.
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From the moment of painting the figure 1 until the day he died, when he had reached well past 5500000 (no commas marred his work), his daily task was painting numbers and whispering their names, eventually into a tape recorder.
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When the San Francisco buyer learned that the painting he had bought was stolen, he immediately returned the work, Mr. Hynes said.
The story revolves around three friends whose relationship is tested when one of them buys a plain white painting from a famous artist, while one of them thinks he has been conned.
His passion for painting began in May 1922, when the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Savile Row, London, mounted a loan exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings entitled The French School of the Last Hundred Years.
When she quit her job, she returned to painting, exercising long-dormant limbs.
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