The Art Assignment takes us on a tour of master paintings left unfinished, for one reason or another. Elizabeth Shoumatoff's watercolor of President Roosevelt is a morbid classic of the genre: he suffered the cerebral hemorrage that killed him while sitting for the portrait, murmuring "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head" after slumping all but dead before her.
Unfinished master paintings
Artist delivered a museum two blank canvases, titled "Take the Money and Run," and now has to pay back $81,000
In 2021, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art loaned conceptual artist Jens Haaning around $76,400 to remake two of his earlier works in which the cash was glued to canvas… READ THE REST
Danish artist must repay funding after submitting empty frames titled "Take the money and run"
A Danish artist supplied with 532,000 krone (~$76,000) by a museum to recreate a work featuring cash pinned to a canvas instead turned in empty frames with the title "Take… READ THE REST
Behind the scenes: how 1988's animated Akira was illustrated
Here's a gorgeous behind-the-scenes snippet of how Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira was animated. I love the beginning of the clip where we see the lit-up windows of a building getting drawn… READ THE REST
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