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		<title>The Story Behind the Painting of Tintern Abbey - The famous Abbey, featured by Turner in his oil paintings is also featured in many Films, TV shows and Poems.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English Romantic landscape painter J.M.W. Turner reflected the elegant glamorous ruins of Tintern Abbey more than once in his paintings. William Wordsworth and Lord Tennyson left beautiful lines inspired by the mysterious beauty of its ruins. Memories of the feelings and people “that are no more”. “Tears, Idle Tears” by Tennyson are full of sadness, regret, thoughts of death and friends already gone into the underworld. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign&#8217;d On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!&#8221; The mysterious Tintern Abbey is not a mythological place but a Cistercian monastery in Monmouthshire founded in 1131. Its ruins are still standing and attract tourists, poets and artists. Surprisingly people of today, who have never heard of it know...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>February 7, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/turner-150x150.jpg" length="10672" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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		<title>Lady With an Ermine and The Borgias - The subject of this Da Vinci portrait reveals inaccuracy of historical facts in the hit Showtime series The Borgias.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sitter for the famous Da Vinci portrait, Lady with Ermine, is a beautiful and talented lady &#8211; Cecilia Galerani. On the portrait she is about sixteen, already a woman, whose life took a few dramatic turns in the hands of her ambitious father. Not of noble birth, he tried to arrange the marriage of his ten-year old daughter into a noble family. What is known next is that the marriage never took place and a few years later she became the mistress of her father’s patron, the Milanese duke Ludovico Sforza, known as Ludovico el Moro. His unattractive appearance and the suspicious death of his nephew under his regency created a monstrous aura around his personality, which is reflected in the recent TV series The Borgias. In reality he was a wise ruler and a patron of the arts and his court was one of the major...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>February 6, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lady-150x150.jpg" length="6890" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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		<title>How Paul Cezanne Learned to Paint Nature - Cezanne began to trust his talent after being appreciated by his pear Pissarro.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the sound of one hand clapping? When there is no one around you, how do you know if you have talent? Paul Cezanne never thought he was a true artist. He often destroyed his paintings after finishing them, because he didn’t like the result. Cezanne wanted to take part in the French Salon exhibitions, but never got accepted. Paul was so dissatisfied with the results of his work, that he even showed some sympathy with the jury of the Salon: I understand very well that it could not be accepted, because of my point of departure, which was too far away from the objective to be achieved, namely the reproduction of nature.” However, as mistrustful as he was in his own talent, he did have the courage to stand with his point of view in concerning how to paint nature. This reproduction of nature took place in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>February 3, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cezanne-150x150.jpg" length="10453" type="image/jpg" />Cristiana Dumitru<author>Cristiana Dumitru</author>	</item>
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		<title>Top ‘Liked’ art posts from facebook - Top art-related-posts across the social media realm... Join us for more artistic conversations on facebook...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a collection of the top posts of the week that we&#8217;ve shared on our facebook wall. We try and make our facebook posts informative and engaging as we love to hear what our fellow art lovin&#8217; friends have to say about particular artists and their art. So if you have a moment, check out our facebook page and share your passion for art and wall decor with us! On Fridays, time often seems to stand still and the end of the workday seems like it will never arrive &#8212; a good day to contemplate Salvador Dali’s iconic soft watch images. In “Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion” the watch not only oozes, it explodes, a dynamic disintegration prompted in part by Dali’s musings on nuclear physics and atomic weapons. Dali (1904 – 1989) first introduced his melting watches in &#8220;The Persistence of Memory&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>February 1, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/facebook-top-liked-150x150.jpg" length="9484" type="image/jpg" />Amitai Sasson<author>Amitai Sasson</author>	</item>
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		<title>Dali and the Ugly Duckling - Salvador Dali’s Surreal Reflection in the Water.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at Salvador Dali’s Swans Reflecting Elephants I was stricken by a sudden epiphany. Who was it that first said that swans were beautiful? We all know they are one of the symbols of grace, purity, and beauty but how often do we actually stop to look at them with a critical eye? Ungainly boat-shaped bodies, disproportionately long, snake-like necks, and a waddling gait – are these the attributes of a perfect being, a paragon of physical virtue? In what way does the miraculous transfiguration of Hans Christian Andersen’s infamous “Ugly” Duckling into the feathered equivalent of a snake in a boat constitute a good end? Of course Andersen never was too fond of happy endings&#8230; It was this train of thought that led me to see this famous fairytale in a new light, and realize the superficial nature of the life-affirming end we have all been told...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/dali-and-the-ugly-duckling/</link>
		<pubDate>January 31, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/swans-150x150.jpg" length="11363" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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		<title>Picasso Lovin’ Thieves Strike Once More - A Picasso, Mondrian and a Caccia were stolen from The National Greek Gallery.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A planned art theft made by the book. One or more thieves on the second week of the year stole three paintings from the National Greek Gallery in Athens. The entire heist took about seven minutes, according to police. One of the artworks was made by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, &#8220;Woman&#8217;s Head,&#8221; a 1930s cubist bust painting. The art had been donated by the artist himself to the Greek people in 1949, as an honorary offer for its brave resistance during the Nazi occupation, in the context of the donation of French artists’ works. Besides Picasso&#8217;s painting, the thieves also stole Piet Mondrian’s &#8220;Mill,&#8221; a 1905 oil canvas of a riverside scene and windmill. The Dutch painter made the artwork in 1905, and had been hanging on The National Greek Gallery wall since 1963, by the donation of Alexander Pappas. The third art work now in the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/picasso-lovin-thieves-strike-once-more/</link>
		<pubDate>January 30, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/picasso-stolen-150x150.jpg" length="9861" type="image/jpg" />Cristiana Dumitru<author>Cristiana Dumitru</author>	</item>
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		<title>The Sunflower Effect: Art Coming to Life (Part III) - The third part of a short story series influenced by Vincent Van Gogh&#039;s famous Sunflowers paintings.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleanor’s bedroom here was smaller than the one at home. She lay in a small but comfortable bed by the window, the drawn curtains leaving the room in semi-darkness. Eleanor’s eyes were open, but she was staring blankly at the window, as if unaware of anything around her. Her mother sat by the bed with a look of concern on her face, heedless of the soft rustling sound disturbing the heavy silence. After a while she raised herself from the chair and headed quietly towards the door. Springing up with a sudden burst of energy, Eleanor stretched her arms desperately towards her mother. “Don’t leave me!” she wailed, “They will come after me! I can hear them climbing up the wall!” Mother sighed patiently, “Nothing is coming after you dear. You just need some peace and quiet, and everything will be okay.” Of course Eleanor knew it wouldn’t...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/the-sunflower-effect-art-coming-to-life-part-iii/</link>
		<pubDate>January 29, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sunflowers-red-150x150.jpg" length="10177" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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		<title>The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day - Klimt’s Masterpiece Portraying a Man and Woman in a  Tender Embrace Garnered the Highest Traffic in overstockArt.com’s Romantic Gallery for the Second Consecutive Year.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2012. Topping the chart for the second year in a row is Gustav Klimt’s sensual masterpiece “The Kiss.” Other artists named on the 2012 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings according to overstockArt.com’s statistics are: “The Kiss,” Gustav Klimt “Hand with Bouquet,” Pablo Picasso “Summer Evening,” Edward Hopper “The Equestrian,” Marc Chagall “When Will you Marry?,” Paul Gauguin “Dance in the City,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir “Two Women Running on the Beach,” Pablo Picasso “Boating on the Seine,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir “Fulfillment (The Embrace),” Gustav Klimt “The Meditative Rose,” Salvador Dali More than 3,700,000 page views to overstockArt.com’s Romantic Art Gallery in the past year were tracked. According to...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/the-kiss-by-gustav-klimt-named-most-romantic-oil-painting-for-valentines-day/</link>
		<pubDate>January 26, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Post-Card-Jan.-mass-mailer-2012-front-150x150.jpg" length="11285" type="image/jpg" />Amitai Sasson<author>Amitai Sasson</author>	</item>
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		<title>The Sunflower Effect: Art Coming to Life (Part II) - The second part of a short story series influenced by Vincent Van Gogh&#039;s famous Sunflowers paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleanor’s mother could not understand why, just when she seemed so much better she had suddenly had a panic attack during a bath. She could not imagine that it was triggered by Eleanor’s yellow rubber duck. The unfortunate girl could sense the horror coming on as it landed with a crash in her foamy bath water – it was the color – the agonizing yellow of the sunflowers that haunted her dreams. The duck’s body begins to stretch and elongate, while sunflower petals grow out of its head. Eleanor tries to scream, but is unable to find her voice. She begins to push herself to the other side of the bathtub, but the duck, now completely transformed into a sunflower pursues her, floating eerily above the foam. Before the Sunflowers, Eleanor used to love to sit in the kitchen watching her mother cook. Today however, everything was different....]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/the-sunflower-effect-art-coming-to-life-part-ii/</link>
		<pubDate>January 25, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sunflowers1-150x150.jpg" length="12979" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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		<title>The Sunflower Effect: Art Coming to Life (Part I) - A short story series influenced by Vincent Van Gogh&#039;s famous Sunflowers paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was around four o’clock in the afternoon in a room of Postimpressionistic art at the National Gallery in London. A row of rigid, backless wooden benches cut across the center of the room, and the bright fluorescent lamps hanging from the high ceiling infused the atmosphere with a sickly yellow light. The scanty group of listlessly wandering visitors barely disturbed the oppressive silence. A couple walked in accompanied by their young daughter. She seemed to be about six years old, her small stature and innocent, large brown eyes making her look even younger. Her frail figure was encased in a flowered pink dress and a yellow wool sweater, which offset her pale complexion. The family walked around the room stopping at a Van Gogh painting. The painting depicted a vase overflowing with vivid yellow sunflowers, which seemed to pop out from their flat blue background. Turning towards...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artcorner.com/the-sunflower-effect-art-coming-to-life-part-i/</link>
		<pubDate>January 22, 2012</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.artcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/katie_and_sunflowers_2-150x150.jpg" length="12965" type="image/jpg" />Katherine Blakeney<author>Katherine Blakeney</author>	</item>
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