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The Art of Russell Lee Klika: 20 Fantastic Photos Taken in Iraq and Posted on Flickr

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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I am a big fan of Flickr. I have started using the photos there almost exclusively for the blog. While I was lurking there today, I found a photographer that has taken some of the most breathtaking portraits that I have ever seen...and they were taken in Iraq during the war. Russell Lee Klika is an artist. His work is beautiful. His eye is one of a master. I hope you enjoy his work.

German experts crack Mona Lisa smile (discovers model's identity)

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait. ADVERTISEMENT Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting. But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself. Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that...

Artist Hero

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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Kaziah Hancock is a people person. She studied the human face long before she began putting paint to canvas twenty-five years ago. With a self-described "weakness for a face that has weathered the storm,” she specialized in painting the older, interesting people who made up her community. “I wanted to preserve the memory of all those I had done business with for all those years, who were such characters,” said 59-year-old Hancock. “When you look in the eyes, you see the look of honesty and the lines of integrity. You’ve just got to love that. They’ve lived a life and...

Mark Steyn: Dislocated Dining

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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On the evening of September 11th, Rosemary Righter, the senior leader writer (“leader” is British for “editorial”) at The Times of London, was due at a dinner party. She arrived late, and found the tone, after a hard day at the office, oddly smug and triumphalist. Leaving early, she gave a lift to another guest. “Rosemary,” he said, “isn’t it marvelous to think that the arrogant bloody Americans have finally got it in the neck?” Involuntarily, she braked. Hard. Though not hard enough to precipitate him through the windshield, sadly. Miss Righter was one of the first to experience an admittedly...

Portrait of a hero -- and of family history (Do you know any of these men? See slide show)

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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Portrait of a hero -- and of family history Portraits of WWII servicemen, found in a downtown jewelry shop, are bringing memories of loved ones long lost to their relatives. BY FRED TASKER ftasker@MiamiHerald.com Theda Rendon, 67, of Homestead, picked up The Miami Herald on Nov. 10 and saw the front-page story about the discovery of long-lost portraits painted in 1945 of Miami servicemen who died in World War II and the attempts now to unite those portraits with the men's surviving relatives.Perusing the list of names, she got to the third-from-last before spotting the name Norris Walker.''That's my half-brother,''...

Artists paint portraits for families of fallen Soldiers

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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Kaziah Hancock is a professional artist from Manti, Utah. She now devotes all of her work to painting portraits, for free, of U.S. military personnel killed in the Middle East. Photo by Rachael Tolliver More Images FORT KNOX, Ky. (Army News Service, Dec. 5, 2006) - Kaziah Hancock, an artist and patriot in Manti, Utah, has put her professional life on hold as a result of channel-surfing on the radio. Now, she devotes most of her time to honoring American Soldiers who have died in Middle East combat zones. "I came across a talk show and they were talking about...

From Funerary Masks To Portraits

Monday 6th of September 2010 09:37:27 PM
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From funerary masks to portraits Clockwise from left: The Ancient Egyptian funerary mask; A sculpted portrait placed on a coffin; A painted portrait like that of the boy dated back to Roman times; A woman wearing jewellery. These were removed from their mummy wrappings The so-called Fayoum portraits, more than 1,000 of them, are the largest body of ancient portable paintings to have survived. They are portraits, painted mostly on wood, of men, women and children, young and old, believed to have been painted in their lifetime, sometimes framed and displayed in the homes, and later sawn to fit just...