http://www.baroquepotion.com Quaff the Potion! Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:36:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Vincent van Gogh we have over 900 paintings as well as over 1000 drawings. He made nearly all of them during the final five years of his life. 365 times 5 would be just over 1800 days for those 900 paintings. Let's call it a painting every other day for ... http://www.baroquepotion.com/2008/08/but-will-it-sell/ From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers to cut from its frame a priceless Caravaggio: The interesting ... http://www.baroquepotion.com/2008/08/of-neighbors-and-fences/ Once in a while, the world sees the discovery of an ancient artifact in good condition that isn't a forgery.  In this case, excavators near Skopje have unearthed a relatively awesome late Roman Venus pudica: All too often, things like this turn up and prove to be clever forgeries, sometimes to ... http://www.baroquepotion.com/2008/07/shes-five-and-a-half-feet-tall-and-weighs-about-a-ton/ Art hooligans have struck again. Followers of POPaganda artist Ron English have caused a stir in Boston.  Working in a neo-Warholian mode, which both misses and reinforces whatever Warhol was on about, English has morphed portraits of Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama: Set aside the curiously Alfred ... http://www.baroquepotion.com/2008/07/yes-we-canvass/ From Patrick at Popehat, we learn of a simple but amusing deconstruction of Thomas Kinkade's mass market landscapes. A sample: There is an inexplicable absence of people, despite the presence of livestock, abandoned agricultural implements, raging chimney fires, what have you. ...it seems as if a sort of aestheticically-directed neutron ... http://www.baroquepotion.com/2008/07/topsy-turvy-world-kitsch-edition/