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Ken Roko Red Bean Tree 01: Giclee Fine Art Print 13X19 Please Check out more images from Etsy.com: http://www.etsy.com/shop/krokoart?section_id=12474833

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Jean-François Dubreuil

International Herald Tribune / 2010

oil on canvas / 84 x 54 cm

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Kim Cogan

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Alexandra Levasseur

See more of her work here.

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From life #2 by Cédric Philippe

Fingerpainted on iPhone with Brushes. 

You can visit my fingerpainting page for more at http://cedricphilippe.tumblr.com/fingerpaintings/

Or ask for prints or collabs : cedricphilippe@yahoo.fr

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Using a collaborative oil painting process, Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten create artworks that explore the poignant power of the human touch. In these works, hands and fingers are the protagonists — they have the power to make us squirm with discomfort and insecurity or long for a gentle caress. Thayer and Van Patten’s compositions zoom in on various details of the body, presenting a form of intimacy that can be sensual and unsettling at the same time. Take a look at some of their artworks here: http://hifructose.com/2013/01/08/cara-thayer-and-louie-van-pattens-confrontational-paintings-of-intimacy/

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hyperallergic:

57-year-old Mississippi native Mark Landis is a quirky man with a big secret he’s been able to hide for almost three decades. Landis is a “master art forger.”

Beginning in 1987, Landis donated his forgeries, which he passed off as the real thing, to dozens of U.S. museums in 20 states. 

Though Landis’ deceit was finally uncovered in 2010, he never financially profited from his ruse, which often involved his dressing up as a Jesuit priest, since all the works were donated in the memory of relatives.

Why did he do it? It’s not exactly clear, but he offers us a peek at his psyche when he says, “I’d been hearing about great families giving away pictures in memory of their loved ones. I wanted mother to be proud of me … sure I had done something in dad’s memory.”

The life and journey of Mark Landis is one of the stranger tales that The Avant/Garde Diaries has profiled, but you have to admit it’s a fascinating story.

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Tras-Cabeza by Moisés Mahiques

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Our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born today in 1875. Here’s a delightful drawing of her by John Singer Sargent.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, c. 1913. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 24 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (62.5 × 49.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Flora Miller Biddle, Pamela T. LeBoutillier, Whitney Tower, and Leverett S. Miller 92.22

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Untitled. ´13

-Tauno Ostra

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Gustav Klimt

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Günther Förg at Greene Naftali (via Contemporary Art Daily - Page 11)