Read more painter stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8865/painter.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:03:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/62170/kinkades-art-firm-loses-court-battle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHugely popular painter Thomas Kinkade claims God is his art agent, but a federal appeals court has ruled against his company for putting art gallery owners through financial hell, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The plaintiffs accused Kinkade and his firm of exploiting their Christian faith to lure them into...http://www.newser.com/story/62170/kinkades-art-firm-loses-court-battle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Jun 2009 7:31:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60454/one-susan-boyle-cashes-in-on-another.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSusan Boyle is selling susanboyle.com for $25,000. A possible purchaser? Singing sensation Susan Boyle. The Boyle who currently owns the site is an American painter who bears the same name as the British star, Mashable reports. The US Boyle has been getting a lot of visitors to her...http://www.newser.com/story/60454/one-susan-boyle-cashes-in-on-another.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 29 May 2009 10:41:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59591/francis-bacons-work-relied-on-gimmick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrancis Bacon’s paintings still have the ability to shock, but beneath that initial thrill lies a consistent, even amateur, formula that “had grown stagnant by 1965,” Jerry Saltz writes in New York in previewing a retrospective opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The calculated pictorial repetitiousness and lack...http://www.newser.com/story/59591/francis-bacons-work-relied-on-gimmick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 13:37:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48182/art-world-still-divided-on-wyeth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAndrew Wyeth divided the art community throughout his life, and little seems to have changed with his passing yesterday. While many in the field call him one of the most important 20th-century American artists, others insist his mode of realism makes him more of an illustrator than a serious painter,...http://www.newser.com/story/48182/art-world-still-divided-on-wyeth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 17 Jan 2009 9:32:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45138/disturbing-dumas-divides-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe South African painter Marlene Dumas has established herself as one of the most challenging artists of recent times, and her austere, anonymous portraits are loved and loathed in equal measures. Sure enough, her first American retrospective—entitled Measuring Your Own Grave , opening this week at MoMA in New York—...http://www.newser.com/story/45138/disturbing-dumas-divides-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Dec 2008 8:26:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/5753/painter-elizabeth-murray-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year.http://www.newser.com/story/5753/painter-elizabeth-murray-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Aug 2007 8:59:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/5706/kahlo-letters-reveal-anguish-over-miscarriage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals one of her long-held secrets in a new collection of letters published for the centenary of her birth, the Guardian reports. Titled “My Beloved Doctor,” they express her anguish over being unable to bear Diego Rivera’s child after injuries she suffered in a tram crash....http://www.newser.com/story/5706/kahlo-letters-reveal-anguish-over-miscarriage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 12 Aug 2007 20:06:05 CDT