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	<description>Speaking the language of art: Resources for visual artists</description>
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		<title>Gerhard Richter &#8211; Atlas</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/17/3702/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gerhard Richter is an important artist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; his work spans nearly five decades. Richter officially began painting in 1962&#8243;. &#8220;By 1964, Richter had collected a vast amount of pictorial source material for his painting, first keeping it in drawers and portfolios. Five years later he began to sift through this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you lick the walls of a public elevator?</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/17/would-you-lick-the-walls-of-a-public-elevator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lickable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lickable Wallpaper Installed in a London Elevator. Bad Advertizing art idea? Hygiene anyone? &#8220;once a Jaffa Cake is licked they’re removed by the bell boy (out of shot) so no-one else can lick them. We don’t want a Jaffa Cake induced epidemic on our hands!&#8221; Hmmmm, still, an odd idea! Maybe the bell boy could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urs Fisher</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/17/urs-fisher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting the coverage that Urs Fischer is getting in the media for his nude figures on display in galleries alongside his artwork. More so than the artwork itself  (&#8220;Nude model causes a commotion in Urs Fischer exhibition at Palazzo Grassi&#8220;). Granted, a nude figure seems to often be a draw especially in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering Cezanne</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/12/recovering-cezanne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Police in Serbia have recovered a painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne that was stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum four years ago, officials said on Thursday&#8221; The picture in the linked article shows an armed soldier/police officer standing behind the recovered work.  In contrast to the placid expression of the boy, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Work of Sam Weber</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/11/the-work-of-sam-weber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cleopatra]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Weber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fair Coin &#8211; Sam Weber About Sam: &#8220;I was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, I moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. I’m married to Jillian Tamaki. &#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony and Cleopatra</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/11/anthony-and-cleopatra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google Art Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Link to Google Art Project &#8220;Detail of the ceiling of the Venus salon, this spandrel depicts the Roman Emperor Anthony and Queen Cleopatra, recognisable from the asp that she holds in her right hand. The couple is chained by garlands of flowers held by Venus, the goddess of love, shown in the central part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s application for a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/11/leonardo-da-vincis-application-for-a-job-at-the-court-of-ludovico-sforza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might wonder what to put on your next job application, or resume, but here is the application of Leonardo da Vinci to the court of Ludovico Sforza sometime between 1483 -1484.  In it  he outlines some of his various skills. &#8220;My Most Illustrious Lord, Having now sufficiently seen and considered the achievements of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malika Favre &#8211; Where Fine Art and Illustration Meet</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/11/malika-favre-where-fine-art-and-illustration-meet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malika Favre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going through some old bookmarks that I meant to look at and I found one linking to the work of Malika Favre. She works in a style that is reminiscent of the 1960s and 70&#8242;s. I am a fan of abstract poster styles such as futurism, constructivism and that which minimalizes the forms to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Google Art Project</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/10/the-google-art-project/</link>
		<comments>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/10/the-google-art-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The project to organize the artworks of the world online under the Google Art Project is a grand one. Think of the great libraries of antiquity that people traveled to see. They came for The Pyramids, Saint Peters Basilica, the treasures of kings, The Vatican and the ruins of Greece, to name a spare few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Calavera</title>
		<link>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/10/what-is-calavera/</link>
		<comments>http://pictus-art.com/blog/2012/04/10/what-is-calavera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The word calavera, Spanish for &#8220;skull&#8221;, can refer to a number of cultural phenomena associated with the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls Day. -Wikipedia&#8221; Nicola De Jager makes embroidered skulls that celebrate such things. Her site is www.calavera.co.za Just take a look at these fabulous [...]]]></description>
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