Alfredo Rodriguez' Paintings

Collection of Alfredo Rodriguez' Paintings

Amazing Art Project from Google

Google launched a terrific service for the naming of Google Art Project. Now you have a great opportunity to not getting up off the couch to run through the galleries and museums around the world, read all the interesting information about the selected objects, and even create your own collection of art objects from the world's masterpieces, which are shown with amazing accuracy and a survey of 360 degrees. And as you can in the smallest detail view images. The quality of each masterpiece - 7 giga pixels!

Google has already said - the project is not commercial and does not bring profits. It is designed for anyone who would like to visit museums in the world, but has no such opportunity. Moreover, it also provides an opportunity to consider the fine details of paintings that, in principle, sometimes unrealistic, even in the museum or gallery.

At this point in the project involved 17 museums of the world:

- Old National Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- Art Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- The Hermitage in St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Russia)
- Versailles in Paris (France)
- Museum of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (Spain)
- Centre of Art Reina Sofia in Madrid (Spain)
- Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Italy)
- The National Gallery in London (England)
- The Tate Gallery in London (England)
- Museum Kampa in Prague (Czech Republic)
- Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Reyksmuzey in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Freer Art Gallery in Washington (USA)
- Frick Collection in New York (USA)
- Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA)
- Metropolitan Museum in New York (USA)

Artist uses 200,000 Ants Create Unique Paintings

Painter Chris Trueman, from Claremont, California, has created a unique painting by using 200,000 dead ants instead of paint.
The painting Chris calls “Self Portrait With a Gun” actually features his younger brother, dressed as a cowboy, holding his dad’s rifle. From afar this unusual artwork looks more like an old yellowed photo, but as you approach it, you realize it’s actually something completely different – a painting made of ants.
To the artist, this bizarre ant painting represents how humans learn about things abstractly, only to have their impressions changed as they get closer to them. But actually completing his masterpiece wasn’t the simplest task, mostly because he hated killing the creatures he perceives to be ” right on the line of what I consider intelligent life.” When he first began the project, he decided to catch the ants himself, but the ants in San Francisco, where he was living at the time, were too small. So he decided to order them online, from a guy who was breeding and selling them as food for lizards.

First he ordered just 1,000 ants, because he didn’t know how many he would need for the right density, but then he started ordering 40,000. They came in peanut-butter jars, and seeing them moving around in there, it was hard for Chris to make a decision. He couldn’t release them, because they weren’t native to that area, and they could start biting people. So he decided to kill the ants himself. It wasn’t easy, and he even took a 1-year-break, but decided to complete his ant masterpiece, because he didn’t want the first batch to have died in vain.
Some of the ants dried up and were torn to pieces, so Chris Trueman used them in the large parts of the painting, where details weren’t important, saving the full-sized ants for the detailed parts. he would handle them with tweezers, placing them on the Plexiglass canvas and coat them in a painting resin called galkyd.
Chris Trueman‘s ant painting is on display, at an art gallery in San Diego, and is priced at $35,000.