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...Prague is famous for its beautifully preserved Baroque architecture, but it also boasts impressive monuments to an even earlier era. Czech painter Zdenek Burian (1905-1981) captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult...
With the Ninth Symphony in heavy rotation on his iPod, ED HARRIS is diligently transforming himself into yet another artistic savant. "He's the greatest musician that ever walked the planet," says Harris, who starred in and directed a 2000 biopic of painter Jackson Pollock. "I'm an actor from New Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning...
...naked man lying bloodied and bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie tangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in red women's underwear. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his American soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib have a haunting...
...Chen Yifei knew that others could attract money and investment to China. What he wanted to do was far greater: bring beauty back to his homeland. The painter turned style entrepreneur, who died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped...
...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Prague is famous for its beautifully preserved Baroque architecture, but it also boasts impressive monuments to an even earlier era. Czech painter Zdenek Burian (1905-1981) captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist...