Craftspersons are using a large number of ancient terms in the workshops of the Manufactory. The terms are poetic and full of imagery. Moreover, they are linked with special production techniques and skills, as well as with tools designed and produced in situ. Here is a presentation of these terms in a glossary.
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Modern and abstract color full watercolors by french painter François Nugues showing now in ID Gallery.

Matsart announces auction of Israeli and International Fine Art. The acution will be held in King David hotel next june 30 and will show rare artwork from Picasso, Pissaro ( “The Meadow with the grey horse, Eragny”.), Renoir (“Portrait de Claude Renoir, dit Coco”), Chagall (“Bouquet au coq aile”), and also Victor Vaserely, Mordechai Ardon, Ludwig Blum, David Alfaro Siqueiros…

French painter Jérôme Romain is showing is new work in ID Gallery with two series : “New Year” (painting partying people) and “The Used” (post industrial still painting).

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Peoples throughout history have bought, adopted or pillaged technologies from one another, often through the mechanisms of war, trade and espionage. ‘Nations’ and ‘cultures’ are not discrete entities, but are rather continually evolving expressions of social history, economic imperialism and geo-politics.

Viewed in this way, globalization is a historic trend, but one that is accelerating. The rate and extent of globalization has increased exponentially through increasingly complex technological revolutions – agricultural, industrial, and now, digital. Yet, simultaneous to this technological convergence, the cleavages …

Unique creation by Xavier Veilhan will be sold at Artcurial next july, 20th.
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Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Claude Monet: Late Work.” The most significant gathering of Monet’s late paintings to take place in New York in more than thirty years, it will focus on the most important late subjects drawn from his gardens at Giverny—Nymphéas, Le pont japonais, and L’allée de rosiers—which are among the most treasured paintings of his long and prodigious career.

The exhibition begins with a selection of early Nymphéas that were first shown in 1909 at the Galerie Durand-Ruel to great critical acclaim. From these delicate, poetic paintings …

SOTHEBY’S forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010, will present for sale some of the most exciting post-war and contemporary works to appear on the open market in recent years.

Works in the auction range from masterworks by seminal and long-established artists such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter, Alexander Calder and Andy Warhol to the more recently executed zeitgeist artworks of Richard Prince, Bharti Kher, Jeff Koons, Antony Gormley and Peter Doig, in addition to paintings by the celebrated and highly sought-after School of London artists …