Broken Paintings picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 15 image entries
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Contest Directions: Police in Norway recovered Edvard Munch's paintings "The Scream" and
"Madonna", two years after armed robbers stole them from a museum in
Oslo. Museum officials said they are upset to find the paintings in
rough condition. Well, what do you expect? Thieves stealing paintings
for the love of art, enjoying them on their walls for a year, doing
extra restoration work, and then returning the paintings in better
than original condition? Well, thank you thieves! Next time please
stop by to take some more masterpieces, we need some restoration done
to them for years! That's thieves, we are talking about,
folks. The guys who break car windows to get stereos and rob museums
of whatever valued trash people consider art. And accusing thieves of
not taking good care of paintings is like accusing Britney Spears
of not taking good care of her kids. Except that Britney is slightly
less qualified.
In this contest you are asked to show how thieves "broke" objects in
the paintings - e.g. broken table in "Last Supper", torn clothes in
Mona Lisa, cracked ball in Escher's "Reflection", etc.
The damage we are looking for is not to be to the painting texture,
frame, paint, etc, but to the objects in the paintings as described
above.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $20, 2nd place: $12 , 3rd place: $8
Started: 9/4/2006 6:20:00 AM, Ended: 9/6/2006 6:00:00 AM
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Two famous paintings by Edvard Munch -- The Scream and Madonna -- have been recovered following theft some two years ago. The paintings were discovered in Norway after they were stolen in August 2004 when thieves literally yanked the paintings off of the walls of a museum. The police still know only a portion of the details associated with the theft. However, the police did confirm that the 19th century Expressionist paintings were now safe and sound. These paintings represent two of the most beloved pieces of art in Norway. The paintings were stolen on August 22, 2004, in broad daylight. The Madonna painting actually was damaged during the theft -- having been scratched or gouged in the process. The combined insured value of the paintings is set at $121 million. Some experts have estimated that The Scream alone may be worth as much as $100 million. The Scream is one of the most frequently reproduced works of art in all of the world -- and can be found on everything from coffee cups to T-shirts to countless other items the world over.
Pictures performed on decorative and ritual vessels whose surface has intrinsic shape are also related to paintings.
Techniques of painting are inexhaustible. All, that leaves trace on some thing, strictly speaking, is a painting: painting is created by nature, time and man. This was noted already by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Traditional techniques of painting: tempera (with egg), wall (lime), glue and other types. From 15th century, painting with oil colors had become popular; in 29th century appear synthetic colors with binding agent from polymers (acrylic and vinyl). Colors may be manufactured from natural or artificial pigments. 
