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"He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries." -- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Are the sleepl...

Just wondering, what application do you find the most comfortable to use, and why? Personally, I love Oekaki Shi-Painter because of the simplicity. The color picker is easy to use, I can find the color I want easily, or, using my right mouse button, lift a color from my painting. I don't use most of the tools (I stick mainly with the watercolor brush in various sizes and opacities), so I don't have the screen cluttered up with other tool options. Lascaux tends to go jagged, even with the a...

Jackson Pollock is advertised as the most important American artist of the 20th century, who projecting the imprint of philosophy, art history, and the human experience into visual form, incorporated both chance and control while painting with a physical immediacy and gesture. The videoclip, titled Fellow Drippers, formulates alternative approach to understanding Jackson Pollock.

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First of all, I'd like to state that in no way, am I intentionally dissing abstract art here if it even sounds like I am. Anyway, I just thought I'd share this with you guys, but yesterday on 20/20, they were showing these abstract paintings being sold for millions of dollars done by these so-called pros. But it got interesting when the host had these random 4 year old girls paint on a canvas and then set their work up next to the 'pro' abstract artists' pieces and see if these educated art...