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People are really good at making excuses and I'm no exception. I try not to accept my excuses though as they're usually pathetic, just like all of your excuses for not getting off your butt and doing what you really should be doing now.

Here's my pathetic excuses for not posting lately..

Here's a recent painting of Melbourne:

Unlike dance and music where the most attractive modes and sweetest strains disappear before they are understood, painting captures the emotions and appearances and retains the impact for a long period. Painting is an essentially a combination of lines, forms, colors, tones, texture and space. It attempts to convey the spoken and unspoken appearances with the strokes of a brush.

Painting styles differ from regions to regions, and from periodto period. From prehistoric times to the period of civilizations, painting has been the visual documentation of man’s thoughts, and experiences. It has illustrated the walls of the caves, temples, and palaces, or dried leaved and cloth in the form of phadas, patachitras and coverlets.

Illustrated manuscripts in palm leaf folios in the medieval period were later replaced by paper. The painting of any given region and period provides an insight to the cerebral and cultural sensibilities of the people who executed them. The styles are influenced by the local traditions and cross-cultural interaction.

Like any other country, these factors were true for India too. Besides these, the unique geographical positioning of India, played a significant role in the flowering of distinct regional styles. The multihued painting traditions, which developed like the murals, Chaurapanchasika, miniatures, scroll painting, madhubani, lepakshi, etc contributed to the cultural legacy of India and laid the foundation of successive genres.Ethnicpaintings brings to you the varied painting styles from the treasure trove of India.They have their distinct painting style, regional and periodic characteristics. Browse through them and experience India in its arts.

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art created since World War II. The description of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art usually define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.

Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries, private collectors, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations, contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces. Contemporary artists are maintained by grants, awards and prizes as well as by direct sales of their work.

There are close connections between publicly funded contemporary art organizations and the commercial sector. For instance, in Britain a handful of dealers represent the artists featured in leading publicly funded contemporary art museums.

Individual collectors can wield substantial influence. Charles Saatchi has dominated the contemporary art market in Britain since the 1980s; the subtitle of the 1999 book Young British Artists: The Saatchi Decade uses of the name of the private collector to define whole decade of contemporary art production.

Here is list of some famous expensive paintings that ever sold according to our survey. This blog contains the details like name of painting, artist drawn it, a brief detail about the painting and the cost of the painting. Millions and Hundreds of Millions of dollars are spent every year for these paintings.

This is most expensive painting that ever sold:

Pollock had painted this painting with his own unique style in the Post-War climate that was a radical departure from his peers.

No. 5, which was painted in 1948, is was one of his most basic examples of drip painting, which consisted of using his body to move the paint over the canvas.

The details of this painting sale were kept very private, but rumor has it that the buyer is Mexican financier and art collector David Martinez, and that he paid a huge $140 million, which with inflation now totals $142.7 million.

The Indian paintings similar to India are enormous, varied, significant and exclusive. Be it the murals of Ellora, the Buddhist palm leaf copies, Ajanta, the Jain transcripts or the Mughal, Deccan and Kangra order of minuscule painting. Indian painting has developed from the hinterlands and has lingered eternal in the chronicles of the past. The rock painting that was revealed in Bhimbetka and other places are known to be present from ancient times.

Indian paintings endow with an artistic range that widens from the early civilization to the present day. From being basically spiritual in use in the start, Indian painting has developed over the years to turn into a blend of different cultures and civilization. The Indian painting was out in the open to Greeks and Romans as well as to Iranians and Chinese influences. Cave paintings in diverse parts of India put up with evidence to these influences and an uninterrupted advancement of new idioms is obvious from this.

Indian Paintings can be largely categorized as the miniatures and murals. Murals are massive efforts accomplished on the walls of rock-hard formation, as in the Ajanta Caves and the Kailasnath temple. Minuscule paintings are implemented on a extremely tiny scale on fragile material such as paper and cloth. The Palas of Bengal lead the way of minuscule painting in India. The art of minuscule painting accomplish its magnificence during the Mughal epoch. The custom of minuscule paintings was passed to the fore by the painters of various Rajasthani schools of paintings.

Kinloch Stuart (1775-1826)

Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
Oil on canvas, 1840
Gift of the Partnership for New York City, Inc.
NYSM 2003.41.15

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Stuart arrived in New York City in 1805 already burdened with debt. His wife's candy recipe apparently saved the day. To make ends meet, the Stuarts began selling candy and preserves from their house in lower Manhattan. When he died in 1826' the Stuarts' sons Alexander and Robert were able to develop the now-prospering business into R. L. and A. Stuart's Steam Sugar Refinery, whose large factory stood at Chambers, Greenwich, and Reade streets.

Asher Brown Durand began his career as a talented engraver. By the 1830s his interest had shifted to oil painting - portraiture as well as landscapes - and by mid-century he was heir-apparent to Thomas Cole as leader of the Hudson River School of painting, on which much of his fame rests. Durand was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.

The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in association with the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. Ronni Baer, the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of European Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, were the curators. The exhibition was made possible by Shell Oil Company Foundation on behalf of the employees of Shell Oil Company. The exhibition was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.