Teen Started Painting in Lockdown and is So Good She's Exhibiting in Galleries, and Getting $10,000 For One Canvas
A 14 year-old Welsh girl took up painting during the pandemic and her masterpieces are now being exhibited in galleries in Wales.
A 14 year-old Welsh girl took up painting during the pandemic and her masterpieces are now being exhibited in galleries in Wales.
By presenting the painting in 3D, it both emulates the style of Van Gogh's brushstrokes, and the world that he was painting at the time.
Videos from the hyper-realistic pencil artist Emma Towers-Evans have gone viral, as she encourages others to take up drawing.
"Erik the Belgian" was Europe's most notorious 20th century art thief, and he helped a church recover a piece to a tapestry he had stolen.
Totaling 14 buildings, Frida Kahlo's mentor Diego Rivera imagined a utopian City of Art that has been built 65 years after his death.
Dozens of homeless Milwaukeeans are improving their self-esteem with professional portraits from Help-Portrait Milwaukee, a local branch of the global initiative that arranges for photography sessions to benefit those in need. Worldwide, more than 200,000 portraits have been taken by more than 16,000 volunteer photographers in 60 countries, according to the international organization.
23 people heard recently that they had been chosen to receive $500,000 each to fund their work, with no strings attached. Known as genius grants, the MacArthur Fellowships, given annually, are meant to provide recipients with the freedom to pursue creative activities and ambitious projects unburdened by financial concerns.
An old painting, which shows a woman embracing a young child, was nearly thrown out on several occasions, but Fiona McLaren, 59, from Scotland decided to seek an appraisal recently after financial difficulties forced her to look for new resources. Auctioneer Harry Robertson, the director of Sotheby's in Scotland, gasped when he saw the artwork which had been given to her father by one of his patients.
Siem Reap, famous today for the temples at Angkor Wat, was once famous for something entirely different: silk. Now the city's old artisan reputation is making a comeback. Not far from the monumental ruins is the quiet and leafy Angkor Silk Farm, part of a fair-trade initiative to employ rural Cambodians and revive a dying art.
Ferguson, Missouri has been trying to heal damaging divisiveness over the last two years. Now you can help the community through a coloring book.
Looking at a warehouse full of discontinued door knobs, the folks at Union Hardware in Maryland wondered what they could possibly do to put all those products to better use. So, in 2011 the third-generation, family-owned business began a project to bring to life Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night using the tools of the hardware trade -- door knobs, levers and plates.
Every year, a Dutch town hosts an awe-inspiring flower parade of colossal proportions. To celebrate Van Gogh's birthday this year, they went even bigger.
Instead of vandalizing building walls and facing hefty city fines, this young artist decided to use a more community-friendly medium.
The Mexican government asked a crew specializing in graffiti to transform a downtrodden town... The result was more than just a new coat of paint.
Even though you may not see anything on the canvas at first, watch what develops in this 90 second masterpiece that has scored 19 million hits on Youtube.
Forty finalists were chosen in the 'Doodle 4 Google' contest from more than 107,000 entries, and when public voting concluded, a 7-year-old took home the top prize with his drawing, 'Space Life'.
CNN reported on a child artist prodigy who, despite being raised in an athesitic home, describes her vivid visions from the age of four as coming from God.
Online social networking and internet marketing sites saved a family whose child has leukemia from financial ruin. So far Aidan Reed, 5, and his family have sold more than 4,500 prints of his crayon and marker drawings of monsters and other creepy characters.
The beloved hip hop artist didn't feel like waiting around for state representatives to do their jobs and provide children with proper educations.
There was not a dry eye in the auditorium when this award-winning actress paid tribute to her friend and co-star Meryl Streep.
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