CHINA-CHONGQING-CHINESE-ITALIAN-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

CHINA-CHONGQING-CHINESE-ITALIAN-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

(230419) -- CHONGQING, April 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 7, 2023 shows two paintings in the "Eight Diagrams" series by Italian Artist Orlando Daga displayed at an art exhibition in southwest China's Chongqing. Old items with an obvious imprint of traditional Chinese culture, such as quaint windows, screens and abandoned laundry boards, have become new carriers of the creative ideas of Italian artists. As displayed during the ongoing month-long "Connecting Point" contemporary art exhibition in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, dozens of artworks that blend traditional Chinese culture and trendy Italian design have appealed to even the most finicky of art fans in the city. TO GO WITH "Across China: Chinese traditional culture serves as new muse for Italian artists" (Xinhua/Yang Shiyan)

Seizure of paintings by gov't shows Marcos family not off hook yet

Seizure of paintings by gov't shows Marcos family not off hook yet

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken during a Feb. 2, 2013, interview with Imelda Marcos, the widow of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who ruled the country from 1965 up to 1986, shows paintings by well-known artists on the walls of her condominium unit in the Makati financial district of Manila. On Sept. 30, 2014, government law enforcers raided the known residential and office addresses of Imelda Marcos to implement an anti-graft court order for the seizure of eight paintings by artists including Michelangelo, Picasso and Gauguin.

Displaced Iraqi makes living by drawing wood-burning paintings

STORY: Displaced Iraqi makes living by drawing wood-burning paintings DATELINE: April 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:12 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): MUMTAZ NOAH FARO, Displaced Christian artist from Nineveh Governorate 2. various of the artist, his workshop and his works STORYLINE: Mumtaz Noah Faro, a displaced Christian from Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq, has turned his hobby of making wood-burning paintings into a livelihood. Faro, a mechanical engineer, has been living for more than eight years as a displaced person in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan region, where he and tens of thousands of Christians were forced to flee from the Nineveh Plains and the city of Mosul in 2014 after ISIS took control of it. Despite the return of many Christian families to their areas in Nineveh after the Iraqi security forces announced the liberation of the province and other cities from ISIS at the end of 2017, Faro decided to settle in Erbil and establish his own projec

Seizure of paintings by gov't shows Marcos family not off hook yet

Seizure of paintings by gov't shows Marcos family not off hook yet

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken during a Feb. 2, 2013, interview with Imelda Marcos, the widow of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who ruled the country from 1965 up to 1986, shows paintings by well-known artists on the walls of her condominium unit in the Makati financial district of Manila. On Sept. 30, 2014, government law enforcers raided the known residential and office addresses of Imelda Marcos to implement an anti-graft court order for the seizure of eight paintings by artists including Michelangelo, Picasso and Gauguin. (Kyodo)