Hacker News with Generative AI: Painting

Done in by Time (thelampmagazine.com)
Unlike science, the history of art is not a story of progress. Instead, art—all the arts: literature, music, painting, and sculpture—has high and low periods of varying lengths. Just now, for example, in the realm of high art, we are going through a low period. If you doubt this, ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting. I’ll pause here a moment while you fail to find any.

Art, Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture

25 points by lermontov 14 hours ago | 12 comments

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s) (publicdomainreview.org)
Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as the muse and mentee of famed Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929).

Art, Painting, History, Poland

66 points by prismatic 38 days ago | 6 comments

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece (bbc.com)
The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple rules to work them out.

Art Forgery, Art History, Painting, Museums, Art Authentication

43 points by Vigier 44 days ago | 29 comments

Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys (richardmorris.org)
Thirty years ago, it wasn’t easy tracking down Vilhelm Hammershøi. Many of his paintings remained in private hands and unless you went to Copenhagen, you were unlikely to come across more than a couple hanging together. Now, a painter who was bypassed and undervalued for several decades is everywhere and value of his work has sky-rocketed. Over the last six years, auction prices for his paintings have exceeded £4 million ($5 million) on multiple occasions.

Art, Painting, Auction, Copenhagen

78 points by highway-trees 47 days ago | 5 comments

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)
The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space to dine. This is the somewhat absurd scenario staged by the tablescapes of Dutch banquet still life paintings.

Art History, 17th Century, Netherlands, Painting, Still Life

24 points by prismatic 90 days ago | 13 comments

Picasso was suspected of stealing the 'Mona Lisa' (newyorker.com)
In 1911, the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre.

Art Theft, History, Art, France, Painting

90 points by bookofjoe 109 days ago | 56 comments

Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting (scrtwpns.com)

Digital Art, Painting, Software, Color Theory

379 points by tlarkworthy 117 days ago | 56 comments

Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese Painter (theartstory.org)
In a relatively short, but prolific, career Utamaro emerged as one of the greatest masters of late eighteenth-century Japanese art.