Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2012

“Something to Scream About”



The famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream” sold at auction for nearly $120 million Wednesday, becoming the most expensive piece of art ever sold.   The buyer plans to make his money back by rendering the painting in HD.

An upset Mona Lisa denied being jealous, saying, “I’m worth as much as you if not more, Scream, except I don’t sell myself for money like a whore.”

Monday, December 13, 2010

“Eyes for Mona Lisa”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337976/Real-life-Da-Vinci-Code-Tiny-numbers-letters-discovered-Mona-Lisa.html#ixzz18360PXrQ

Historians using high-magnification techniques to look at Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa have discovered tiny letters and numbers deliberately placed in the eyes and elsewhere in the painting. Art lovers and conspiracy theorists are both devastated by this proof that the Mona Lisa was just a paint-by-numbers creation.