A number of 170 oil paintings chosen from the National Oil Paintings Exhibition are now on exhibit at the Vietnam Culture and Arts Exhibition Centre from last week. These are organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, the exhibition present Vietnam's most excellent oil paintings that have been chosen from more than 1,000 paintings presented by almost 550 artists nationwide.

Artist Hoang Duc Toan, Head of the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition said "In Vietnam, together with other painting materials, such as polish and silk, oil on canvas is a part of current fine arts. Although an oil painting wasn't introduced in the country until the start of the last century, the material was soon accepted by Vietnamese painters and now more and more painters choose this kind of material for their creativity."

Rocker Pete Doherty, made a painting out of his blood and in turn sold it to his owner of a taxi firm to vanish his debts of $3330. The singer created one of his best paintings, after an agreement with his managers just before he was to perform at the British music festival. He was extremely moved by his creativity but he had to return the painting to the owner of the taxi firm because of its taxi bills. The painter says that he made the painting the day he thought he wouldn't play the Glastonbury. He also adds that t was his best painting till date.

You might have heard painting with oil paintings but there is artist by name Plata who uses coffee as a source of painting. The artist uses instant coffee to paint whimsical scenes and rural landscapes on the surface and gives off the bean's aroma.

Plata creates different shades of brown by mixing different quantities of coffee with water. She also uses a fixing material to ensure the longevity of the paint.

She started this technique after seeing a painting signed with coffee. Plata says that she started painting with coffee because it is more economical than the oil painting. Plata had been a playschool teacher before she barged into painting almost eight years back. She draws fairies, butterflies, and other images all inspired by her dreams. She specializes in using coffee as an alternative of paint. Her paintings are almost sold at a minimum of $400 and the pieces have an expected life of 75 to 100 years. She conducts coffee painting workshops for aspiring students as well as artists.

Two paintings by the world's most well-liked artist, Vincent Van Gogh, challenge in a partitioned room at the Yale University Art Gallery. As far as exhibitions go, this one that the gallery's dynamic curator Jennifer Gross spent no less than three years putting together is definitely on the small side. But it's well appeal taking the trouble to see.

You would no doubt be familiar with one of the paintings: "The Starry Night." Painted during 1889, when Van Gogh was occupant in a refuge at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France, this agitated, uncomfortable image is looked upon by many as his masterpiece. It's surely his most excellently known image, and almost certainly not far behind Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" as the world's most famous painting

Amsterdam - A team of European scientists has exposed a fresh technique of extracting images hidden under Old Master paintings without injuring them, recreating a color portrayal of a woman's face hidden since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.

While not precise in every feature, the image produced displays a woman's head that a van Gogh specialist said might be that of the sample in a series of portraits chief up to the 1885 masterpiece The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh often used again canvas to save money, either painting on the back or over the top of accessible paintings.

Joris Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Koen Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp, joined science and art to engineer a fresh technique of looking at unseen paintings, using high-intensity x-rays and an intimate knowledge of old pigments.

The two most iconic paintings by artist Charles M. Russell were sold at a record high price of $9 million. The paintings portrayed a stagecoach holdup and a sculpture made in bronze of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt.

The hold up painting, it was a 30 by 48 inch oil painting made by a Montana artist in 1899, was sold at a dazzling price of $5.2 million said Mr. Bob Drummond, co-founder

Mr. Bob said that the bronze painting of two American men, which had been completed in 1924, was sold at a price of $4.1 million.

The artist, Mr. Russell who captured such the beautiful landscapes of the West in the late 1800's and 1900's, passed away at the age of 62 in 1926. The auction is has fetched the largest amount this year. So hats off to the artist for his beautiful skill.

The ambiguity surrounding a painting belonged to Central Lutheran Church intensified of late when a Winona Post reader noticed that the actual painting pictured with the unique story looked very familiar. Really, Arlene Prosen said, it appears just like a painting that hangs in the church of her childhood in Hayfield, Minnesota. Prosen stated she bound for the photo to a friend that as well attended the Trinity Lutheran Church in Hayfield and the pair agrees: Its the same.

The original Winona Post story detailed the reinstatement work of home artist John Durfey on a seven-foot-tall oil painting, which had been in storage at Central Lutheran Church. The painting features a renaissance scene with an archangel and several women at Christas tomb and despite the fact that it is signed in pencil on the back by somebody named Orvin Olson, not much else is recognized about the origin of the art.