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	<description>PUTTING NEW ARTISTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT</description>
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		<title>Jack Vettriano</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=965</link>
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		<title>Amit Sharma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young and talented Indian artist, Amit Sharma has already had major success in his home country and abroad. His ability to conceptualize themes using an array of media and colour which reaches out and pulls us into an often spiritual landscape is the talent he possesses.  Below is a small selection of Amit&#8217;s work.  
We haven&#8217;t priced it but if you are interested in the costs and sizes please write to me at dan.artpursuit@gmail.com
Enjoy the art!
Dan Groves- Art Director
Feelings
shiva
Sensuous
Maiden Venture Article in the HINDUSTAN Times
Mother
Blind Date
Insight

Wheel
Youthful expressions ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=947</link>
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		<title>A Fake Odalisque?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=944</link>
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		<title>Xuexiaohong</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=924</link>
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		<title>TIPS FOR BUYING ART</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=921</link>
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		<title>Lizezhong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lizezhong
Lizezhong was borin in 1973 in Yuanjiang, Hunan province China.
Graduated from Hunan University in 2001
2002, saw many of his works selected for the national exhibition in Beijing. Many of his works have been auctioned at the Jiade Auction.
Lizehong works of art finds expression in the negative space and shadows of the opposite sex: light is a  crucial element and the shadows for him represent the differences and the unknown outcome at the start of our relationships. The excitement of falling in love and the unknown.
Beam 91x89cm oil on canvas ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=905</link>
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		<title>Chloe Chen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chloe Chen
Born 1980 in Bobai, Guangxi Province,  China. Currently residing in shanghai. Independent Artist. 
Arts Experience:
Contemporary Art Exhibtion in Beijing Art Gallery 2008
Thematic Exhibition of Nature and Expression Shanghai, 2008
Solo Exhibition Mao Dun Art Space,Beijing, 2007
Self-Description
Any language is weak to describe the arts. What I am in pursuit of is to show kinds of thoughts and concepts through my own created works with my unique drawing skills.
This brings me much joy that can not be substituted by anything.
Creation is the essence of true arts, but not copy or pirate. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=890</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t miss it!</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=884</link>
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		<title>Lishirun</title>
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Born in Jianhe, Guizhou province in 1982, Lishirun is an engraving artist from Les Dong. 

He graduated from the engraving department of Guizhou University for Nationalities in 2006.
In 2005, his engraving works were selected in the 11th international collection exhibition then in 2005, his works took part in the 17th international engraving exhibition.

In 2007 his works took part in the Guizhou engraving Art exhibition and from then until now his oil paintings took part in the modern Art exhibition named &#8216;99 Tents,99 reams&#8217;in mainland China.
Escape 140*160cm oil on cavans $280 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=866</link>
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		<title>Simon Tarrent</title>
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Simon Tarrent
Exhibits in the corridor.
Nature inspires Simon&#8217;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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artpursuit.com/?p=822</link>
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