"Participants preferred professional paintings and judged them as better than the nonprofessional paintings even when the labels were reversed," the study's authors, Angelina Hawley-Dolan and Ellen Winner, write.
It inspired professional paintings, an unofficial T-shirt, and an effort led by then-Costa Mesa Planning Commissioner Katrina Foley to save it from the scrap heap.
Of course, framing some art is best left to the professionals: Paintings on thick canvases, fabrics or articles of clothing you want suspended on matting, and anything ultra-expensive is best left to the experts.
"In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc (as a result of the Berner Convention)." Have you seen this status - or a variant - posted to your friends' Facebook profile recently?
In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention).
A black compact refrigerator, fishing gear, televisions, professional wresting DVDs, paintings, an antique chest, a mirror and sewing machine are some of items that the Madison County sheriff's office is trying to recover, KPLR report.
Though he's been associated with New York throughout much of his professional life, the paintings in Stumbling Pioneers, which will be displayed in London's Victoria Miro Gallery, were created in his first American home, to which he's returned after a 20-year absence.
Motion pictures were the most important narrative art form of the 20th century, having taken on the functions served earlier by dime novels, serial novels, staged melodramas, wax museum displays, epic paintings, and professional storytelling.
When the Oakland Museum of California reopens on May 1, it will include a special exhibition in which visitors can create a computerized self-portrait and see their artwork projected on the wall alongside paintings by professional artists.
For professional curators, selecting specific paintings for an exhibition is a daunting prospect, far too revealing a demonstration of their lack of what we in the trade call "an eye".
Building on a put-down commonly directed at abstract art - "my kid (or a monkey/elephant) could do that" - researchers at Boston College tested whether laypeople and art students could distinguish between abstract paintings by professional artists and those made by schoolchildren and animals.
