Art Market and Connoisseurship

Art Market and Connoisseurship
By:"Anna Tummers","Koenraad Jonckheere"
Published on 2008 by Amsterdam University Press

The question of whether seventeenth-century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens were exclusively responsible for the paintings later sold under their names has caused many a heated debate. Despite the rise of scholarship on the history of the art market, much is still unknown about the ways in which paintings were produced, assessed, priced, and marketed during this period, which leads to several provocative questions: did contemporary connoisseurs expect masters such as Rembrandt to paint works entirely by their own hand? Who was credited with the ability to assess paintings as genuine? The contributors to this engaging collection—Eric Jan Sluijter, Hans Van Miegroet, and Neil De Marchi, among them—trace these issues through the booming art market of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arriving at fascinating and occasionally unexpected conclusions.

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword art.

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Young Children's Behaviour

Young Children's Behaviour
By:"Louise Porter"
Published on 2007 by Elsevier Australia

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This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword young.

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Calling All Easter Chicks!

 

Happy Easter to all you gorgeous chicks!

I've no doubt that you will all be running around after husbands and children, cooking, cleaning, entertaining guests and wondering just what is so relaxing about this "Bank Holiday Weekend"!

Well perhaps you can escape for a brief moment and join us at Therapy for a wee glass of Easter fizz, some illicit chocolate eggs and a therapeutic browse round our delicious Spring collections.

I know the weather forecast is looking fairly typical for a Bank Holiday weekend - i.e. rain - but we'll have the heating up, the soothing music on and will welcome you with a smile. 

I'm delighted to say that you are all loving our new shoes (see below if you haven't already been in to drool) and you're starting to think that Spring is on its way. So be kind to yourselves and sneak off for a little "you time" this Easter.

Therapy will be open on Good Friday from 10am to 4pm and on Easter Saturday from 10am to 5.30pm. We'll be closed on Easter Sunday and Monday because I'll be in my pjs, watching old movies with a G&T and a pile of chocolate eggs!

Wishing you all a very happy Easter and here's to sunshine and long days!

Love,
Laura xx

PS: just a few glimpses of our yummy collections to help tempt you in...









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What is makeup and where we can learn about makeup artist courses? List of makeup artists schools.

The cosmetic product such as lipstick, eye shadows, powder, eyeliner and many more applied to the face which enhances or changes the appearance of the user.

Makeup artists work in a variety of personal or entertainment beauty service careers. Though there are no formal education requirements to become a makeup artist all we can receive is cosmetology training and makeup instructions theoretically and practically. Associate's degree or training program on cosmetology is typical; bachelor's degree in theater is another option for makeup artists. It is a required education. An Associate's degree program on cosmetology includes the classes like makeup application, skin care, hair cutting and styling, nail care and sanitation and salon management. 

Licensure is required for the makeup artists who are cosmetologists in all states especially, when they also work with hair cutting and its styling. Projected job growth is 3% for theatrical and performances of makeup artists. Average salary is $66,330 theatrical and performances of makeup artists.

Cosmetology programs are frequently offered at many community colleges and can teaches the students broad range of beauty services and its knowledge including, makeup application, skin care treatments and nail care, hair cutting and styling. Without general education stipulation other more concise programs are prominently available in the beauty schools.

Those makeup artists who aspire to work on theater can earn a bachelor's degree in theater. Students can learn the basic knowledge of makeup application, special effects like aging and wounds, and the knowledge of corrective makeup.

It depends on you to choose from where you want to get the makeup artists courses but we just suggests some of the renowned  beauty and makeup artists schools from all around the world. Some of the best makeup artist schools are being enlisted below along with the place where it is located:

·         EI School of professional makeup: located in center of Hollywood, California.

• ·         The Makeup Designery: located in 2 cities one in Los Angeles, California and second in New York.
• ·         La Belle Beauty Academy: located in Florida.
• ·         La Belle Beauty School: located in Florida.
• ·         Clary Sage College: located in Oklahoma.
• ·         CMC Makeup School: located in state of Texas metropolitan like Houston, Dallas, Austin, & San Antonio.
• ·         Joe Blasco Makeup artist training center: located in California.
• ·         Avi Career Training: located in Virginia.
• ·         Elegance International: located in California.

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What I want you to know is fashion addition?

Fashion is a well known style or training, mainly in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body or furniture. Fashion is a distinguishing and frequently constant tendency in the style in which a person dresses. It is the prevailing styles in behavior and the newest formations of textile designers. Because the more technical term costume is regularly linked to the word "fashion", the use of the sometime has been downgrade to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" mainly means clothing, covering the study of it. Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some movement is androgynous.

Clothing fashion

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey, India, China, would frequently declare on the nonappearance of change in fashion there. The Japanese Shogun's secretary bragged (not totally definitely) to a Spanish tourist in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years. However, there is sizable conformation in Ming China of quickly changing fashions in Chinese clothing. Changes in costume quickly took place at times of economic or social change, as happen in ancient Rome and the medieval Caliphate, followed by a long period without vital changes. In 8th-century Moorish Spain, the musician Ziyab launch to Córdoba sophisticated clothing-styles form on seasonal and daily fashions from his native Baghdad, modified by his own creativity. Similar changes in fashion happen in the 11th century in the Middle East following the arrival of the Turks, who introduced clothing styles from middle Asia and the Far East.

The beginning in Europe of continual and increasingly quickly change in clothing styles can be justly reliably dated. Historians, including James Laver and Fernand Braudel, date the beginning of Western fashion in clothing to the middle of the 14th century. The most dramatic early change in fashion was an unexpected serious shortening and tightening of the male over-garment from calf-length to hardly casing the bottom, sometimes accompanied with stuffing in the chest to make it look biggest.

The pace of change accelerated greatly in the following century, and women and men's fashion, mainly in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally compounded. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion with self possession and precision to date images, quickly to within five years, especially in the case of images from the 15th century. Initially, changes in fashion led to a fragmentation across the upper classes of Europe of what had before been a very similar style of dressing and the subsequent development of particular national styles.

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Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside!

A few weeks ago Chris treated Bess and me to a stay at Bailiffscourt Hotel at Climping. If you're not familiar with it then take a look at their website. It is a wonderful collection of old buildings set in beautiful grounds and only a few minutes walk from Climping beach. The staff are warm, the food is sublime and they are not just "dog friendly" they love dogs. 

The three of us spent many happy hours on the beach with Bess splashing in the sea. Back in April the weather was still "bracing" but despite this we still returned to the hotel uplifted and energised. (At which point Bess discovered the resident Peacock and spent the rest of our stay eagerly searching for it from our bedroom window - see above!)

And now we have had a glimpse of summer and our wee family has been back to the beach enjoying the ozone & the sparkling sea. A day out to the seaside is a special treat but at Therapy we are inspired by all things nautical! So even when you're tied to your desk you can carry the spirit of the seaside with you.

 

Since we had a burst of warm weather we've had a run on our fab Toni Pons espadrilles - help! Happily TP in Spain have come to our rescue and are sending out the missing sizes in our best-selling styles. They'll be arriving next week so don't leave it too long to stock up on your summer shoes. This is a new style for us & proving very popular - not too high, made from cool linen, designed to stay firmly on your feet and only £50!

 

NYDJ have once again excelled with their skinny ankle jeans in lots of colours (not skinny at all, just the perfect fit & length) and their linen/tencel mix stretch trousers which look amazingly flattering and are a nice antedote to the skinny silhouette.

And for proper "nautical" we have an abundance of stripes and fresh navy/white combos to keep you looking effortlessly chic. Add a pair of NYDJ linen trousers & your biggest sunglasses and channel Katherine Hepburn or Coco Chanel...ok, so I seem to end up more Popeye - but I think that's just me!

 

But that's enough for now - what am I doing on my computer when I could be outside in the sunshine dreaming of the sand between my toes?! 

Enjoy the sunshine ladies & we'll see you soon!

Laura x

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Drawn from Life

Drawn from Life
By:"Victoria Dickenson"
Published on 1998 by University of Toronto Press

An illustrated archeology of the imagination that reveals how artists and writers from the late 16th to the early 19th century, most of whom had never seen North America, portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers.

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword art.

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