Painting
# painting - Monday 25 March, 2013
9 celebrities with surprising art careers
Did you know that Pierce Brosnan and Tony Bennett were painters? Seriously.
# painting - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
PICS: Have you ever wondered what children dream about?
Wonder no more – Sightsavers Ireland’s Junior Painter Awards has revealed all.
# painting - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Can you believe that these portraits are NOT photographs?
These realistic-looking images produced by a young Spanish artist are so lifelike, you’ll forget that they are paintings.
# painting - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Mystery masterpiece uncovered during renovations at Paris Ritz
No-one knows when the painting by Le Brun was installed in the hotel – but now it is to be auctioned off for charity.
# painting - Sunday 2 December, 2012
Facing the past: artist ‘honoured’ to have Adams portrait hung in London gallery
Conrad Atkinson reflects on his experience of visiting Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the peace process, and how his painting of the Sinn Féin leader will soon hang in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
# painting - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
Old lady decides to restore 19th century Spanish fresco…
…check out how it SHOULD have looked!
# painting - Monday 6 August, 2012
In pictures: Art in the Olympic Park
There’s not just sport to look at in the park, there’s art too.
# painting - Saturday 30 June, 2012
Man charged over damage to Monet painting
The 1874 painting was seriously damaged in the attack.
# painting - Saturday 2 June, 2012
Artist imagines Incredible Hulk’s anatomy
If you have ever wondered what the real-life anatomy of the Incredible Hulk would be like, wonder no more. Someone has drawn it.
# painting - Friday 25 May, 2012
The 9 at 9: Friday
Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you kick off your day.
# painting - Thursday 24 May, 2012
Ireland’s Favourite Painting is announced… and it’s a romantic one
Hellelil and Hildebrand, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton is named Ireland’s favourite painting in RTÉ show of Irish gallery masterpieces.
# painting - Monday 30 April, 2012
# painting - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Ghost estates brought to book in post-Tiger exhibition
Art initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin is repurposing empty spaces for cultural purposes – its latest show responds to “post-Crash Ireland”.
# painting - Saturday 25 February, 2012
Picasso painting undergoes medical check
Picasso’s “Guernica” – one of the world’s most iconic paintings – is getting a full health check as it marks its 75th anniversary.
# painting - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
Irish artist’s painting to appear on UN stamp for autism awareness
Autistic painter Colm Isherwood’s piece is one of just eight chosen for the World Autism Day collection.
# painting - Wednesday 18 January, 2012
3D Street Painting of the Day
No comment.
# painting - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
What will the future be like? Ireland’s kids have some ideas…
Over 5,000 Irish kids drew pictures of their idea of what the future will be like. Want to see?
# painting - Friday 9 December, 2011
Ireland develops world’s first 3D surface anatomy guide
A team of artists, anatomists and engineers have proven that 3D is not just useful for blockbuster movies – it can stand in for “live models” too.
# painting - Wednesday 7 December, 2011
‘Lost’ Da Vinci fresco sparks row between art historians
A Da Vinci masterpiece is hoped to lie beneath a Florence mural but some art historians are outraged at the method being used to uncover it: drilling through the existing 16thC painting by Giorgio Vasari.
# painting - Friday 22 July, 2011
‘The greatest realist painter’: Lucian Freud dead at 88
Famous for his nude portraits of the likes of Kate Moss and his non-nude portrait of the Queen.
# painting - Tuesday 12 July, 2011
New Michelangelo work found in…Oxford?
An art scholar has claimed to have identified an unknown Michelangelo painting at the University of Oxford.
# painting - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# painting - Friday 13 May, 2011
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: No debt forgiveness for struggling homeowners; NAMA gives a painting to the state (but holds onto an entire collection), and we know it hurts but – is childbirth really a “murderous” experience?
# painting - Monday 9 May, 2011
Would you go dotty over this print?
Damien Hirst ‘dot’ prints and Andy Warhols for sale in Cork auction this evening.
# painting - Monday 7 March, 2011
Doodling for Google rules, OK?
Six-year-old schoolgirl wins national doodling competition to have her drawing featured on internet search engine’s Irish homepage.
# painting - Wednesday 2 February, 2011
Picasso painting of muse and mistress expected to fetch up to £18m
The 1932 painting of Picasso’s young muse is due to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London next week.
# painting - Sunday 30 January, 2011
Titian masterpiece sells for record-breaking $16.8m at auction
The 450-year-old Renaissance work, which had not been seen before the run-up to the auction for 30 years, has broken the record for the artist’s work at auction.









































