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Maria Prymachenko’s paintings were almost destroyed by Russian forces. Now they’re becoming global symbols of peace
Created by Oscar Holland, CNN Not only is Maria Prymachenko amid the 20th century’s good self-taught artists, she is an icon of Ukrainian countrywide identity. Her fantastical paintings, praised for the duration of her lifetime by the likes of Pablo Picasso, are now found in some of the country’s most significant museums. Her do the job has also been highlighted on postage stamps and her likeness is immortalized on commemorative cash. But 25 a long time just after her death, the Russian invasion is threatening Prymachenko’s legacy. Past 7 days, Ukraine’s International Ministry said that quite a few of the artist’s paintings were among the these destroyed at a museum…
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Madonna’s Son Rocco Ritchie Is Secretly an Artist and May Have Been Showing His Paintings Under the Pseudonym ‘Rhed’ for Years
Rocco Ritchie, son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, could be an artist working under the pseudonym Rhed and showing at Tanya Baxter Contemporary in London. The sleuths at Web site Six say they’ve sussed out the identification of this “emerging artist” (Rocco is 21). Suggesting a link is the point that the international megastar and her ex ended up at the 2018 opening of Rhed’s debut present with the gallery, in accordance to the Each day Mail. Rocco was also in attendance. “We proceed to respect the artist’s prerogative to remain nameless,” Baxter advised Artnet News by means of electronic mail. “Much the very same way Banksy chooses to hold…
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In a gift worth millions, late artist gives thousands of his paintings to charity
Simon Fergusson South Island artist Eion Stevens was remembered as an “inventive painter”, a great talker, and an intensely private man. Thousands of paintings by late Christchurch artist Eion Stevens that were initially feared lost after his death could be worth millions of dollars and have been left to charity. Stevens has left over 2000 of his paintings and prints in his will for the benefit of charity. Family and friends of the artist had feared the location of a storage lockup where he kept the artworks would never be found after he died in unusual circumstances. Tiana Miocevich/Stuff Eion Stevens with one of his works at the Diversion Gallery…
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Justin Bieber’s Lawyers Tried to Shut Down a Gallery Show by an Artist Impersonating the Pop Star to Sell $100,000 Paintings
When a press release went out from 1 “Harry Gablowsian,” hundreds of pop lovers RSVP’d for the new gallery’s opening reception: “Justin Bieber: Paintings From Space.” The artist was promised to be current. Even though most in the art globe conveniently observed via the ruse—Harry Gablowsian, of training course, is a engage in on the world’s preeminent mega-supplier Larry Gagosian—the exhibition built headlines in the New York Post’s Web site Six, which outed the venture as a hoax, and even prompted a cease-and-desist letter from Bieber’s attorneys. Now, Artnet Information can completely reveal that the “Justin Bieber” paintings are essentially the work of Brooklyn artist Brian Whiteley, founder of the Satellite…