After a lifetime’s work conjuring up the most risqué paintings, featuring men with women in various states of undress, Scotland’s most popular and best-selling artist, Jack Vettriano, has announced a dramatic change of direction: he intends to paint yachts.
This creative sea change comes amid other signs that, at 57, the notoriously rakish painter is mellowing. He has acquired a dog and harbors hopes of settling down, possibly even having a child.
In an interview with The Times, Vettriano said that after almost endlessly creating exhibitions for the Portland Gallery, which represented …

Odalisque by Boris Kustodiev
Three years ago in London a painting was sold at Christie’s for £1.69m. However, Russian officials have now decalered this painting a fake.
The painting, Odalisque is an oil on canvas which depcits a nude woman reclining on a bed and was presented as a work by Boris Kustodiev, a 19th-century Russian artist. But Rosokhrankultura, the Russian cultural watchdog, has listed Odalisque as a forgery.
So far,two Russian museums have also come forward and backed this claim, reporting that the painting is by an unkown artist. The owner who …

Xuexiaohong Graduated at the Art Department of Ningbo Institute of Education in 1986
she then made an advanced study at the Chinese Academy of Art.
An artist of Kaiming painting academy in Zhejiang. So far many
literary works and Art works have been published in paper and
Magazines in China.

Art works include oil paintings, printmaking ,watercolor ,mixed
materials and more..
Her Art works have been awarded the following prizes. The silver prize for painting
and calligraphy competition for Chinese teachers and students. Twice she has been
awarded first prize in Ningbo,Zhejiang and also the silver prize, respectively, in
Ningbo,Zhejiang …

Investing in Art is perhaps something that was unheard of even 10 years ago. As we all know, famous masterpieces appreciate in value and not depreciate. Not often but sometimes it can be a wonderful deal when the piece of art fetches the returns on investment in a big way. Perhaps more rare is perhaps a masterpiece being discovered in an obscure flea market and sold off for ten times the price it was bought for. In this digital age however, it’s more and more difficult to separate the genuine …

Must-see: Picasso: Challenging the Past
From February 25 at National Gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk
The National Gallery will break new ground as it stages a spectacular Picasso show. By tradition, 1900 had been this museum’s end point. After that, by tacit agreement, art was left up to the Tate. But now curators court a new audience with a blockbuster — this radical Spaniard’s relationship with the Old Masters. The sheer modernity of Picasso’s style was probably the most striking thing about him in his day. But actually he was curiously averse to selecting modern …

Simon Tarrent
Exhibits in the corridor.
Nature inspires Simon’s powerful and uncompromising paintings of light and colour.
Bold and swift use of oil is characteristic of his paintings, allowing him to capture the diverse qualities of the landscape that has inspired him. A mixture of influences is evident, from the spontaneous fluidity of Jack B. Yeats, to the vivid colours and raw emotion of Howard Hodgkin. Humphrey Ocean RA, commented that the brooding passion within Simon’s work is, “evocative of August Strindberg’s paintings, for their sense of foreboding”.
Fresh and contemporary, Simon’s unique new …

kokoschka’s Istanbul painting
The Global economic downturn is forcing many art collectors to part with rare pieces by artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro, Oskar Kokoschka, Piet Mondrian and Edouard Vuillard. Works by some of these artists in particular, Pissarro and Modigliani have never been seen before auction. Whether the reason for parting with family heirlooms is that keeping them has proven to expensive over recent months or that collectors are simply looking for something else to invest their money in we just don’t know. However, what we do know …

Francis Bacon portrait of george dyer talking 1966
Born in Dublin of English parents, Bacon left home at the age of 15, traveling to London, Berlin and Paris. In Paris he visited a Picasso exhibition which inspired him to paint. In 1929, Bacon settled in London, where he designed Bauhaus-style furnishings and later, during wartime, joined the Civil Defense. His breakthrough as an artist came in 1945, when his three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion caused a sensation at the Lefevre gallery. In this, as in may …

* Culture * Art and design * Art Turner winner
Art Turner winner’s greatest gamble: 5,000 of his original works for free Tyson harnesses power of the internet to spread art inspired by roulette wheel * Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer * The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008 * Article history December, Broadway, Westminster, London - one of Keith Tyson’s History Painting prints, created using spins of a roulette wheel to determine where the colours fall …

Just 22 years old and recently graduated from St Martins college of Art in London Johan has already made the shortlist for the BP Portrait Award as one of its youngest artist ever to receive an accolade. Interest in the young Swedish painter has been huge and already some of his larger oil on canvas paintings have sold for over $9,000 USD
National Portrait Gallery London Johan Andersson. Oil on canvas
Challenging our perceptions of beauty and capturing the physical nature of simple existence in a human face has become Johan’s primary …