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		<title>A Review of Simple Nudes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marc Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What are &#8220;simple nudes&#8221;? Well, the concept and term was invented by DOMAI in 2001. I call it &#8220;simple nudes&#8221;. Since then FEMJOY.com became the fastest growing community for tasteful &#38; simple nudes and also provocative nude art in the world. The FEMJOY concept builds on honesty and quality.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are &#8220;simple nudes&#8221;? Well, the concept and term was invented by DOMAI in 2001. I call it &#8220;simple nudes&#8221;. Since then FEMJOY.com became the fastest growing community for tasteful &amp; simple nudes and also provocative nude art in the world. The FEMJOY concept builds on honesty and quality.</p>
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<p>The white wall background series with the asymmetric composition are the most simple nudes you can imagine. It shows us the real strength of simplicity.   As Eolake puts it , “The pictures may be sexy, but they are not sexual.” I suspect people in the simple nudes movement have slightly varying descriptions of precisely what a simple nude is. It would only be human nature for there to be differences of opinion.</p>
<p>Simple Nudes is about the beauty of pretty girls nude. Visit this stunning site and see for yourself that this is not just a site dedicated to simple nudes.</p>
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<p>Natural, beautiful, photographs of the nude female figure. Fine art nude photographs with great respect for woman in nude art. The models are unmistakably beautiful and full of innocence. Galitsin has produced a site which is fast becoming a favourite. She liked Natural Beauties so much that she bought a copy for herself. This is impressive to me, since she is a happily married heterosexual woman.</p>
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		<title>What to Expect at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston contains galleries, a restaurant, a museum store and curatorial space; it also houses the museum&#8217;s permanent antiquities and European collection. After its completion in early 2000, the gallery space from the Audrey Jones Beck Building, coupled with the existing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston buildings, raised the museum&#8217;s rank [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston contains galleries, a restaurant, a museum store and curatorial space; it also houses the museum&#8217;s permanent antiquities and European collection. After its completion in early 2000, the gallery space from the Audrey Jones Beck Building, coupled with the existing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston buildings, raised the museum&#8217;s rank in square footage among art museums to sixth in the nation. The Hirsch Library also has received a number of large book collections as gifts over the past few years, and a new full-time Cataloging Assistant position was recently added to help catalog them.</p>
<p>Items probably more important in this collection (somewhat more mundane though none-the-less exquisite) are the non-Western textiles and Indian and Indonesian costumes. Founded in the 1900s, Texas&#8217; first municipal art museum houses a vast permanent collection of more than 27,000 pieces. The Glassell School of Art, established in 1927 as the teaching wing of the museum, presents exhibitions by its students and the best of today&#8217;s Texas artists. There are tons of lectures and symposia pertaining to the exhibits and collections, including the always enjoyable annual Textiles and Costume Institute public lecture.</p>
<p>The older Law Building, connected to the Beck Building via an underground tunnel, is where you&#8217;ll find the museum&#8217;s modern and contemporary art collections. Although most of the collection is very young and perhaps excessively American in focus, they have some impressive works from the early 20th century, including some outstanding works with a definite southwestern flavor from American masters like Frederic Remington and Georgia O&#8217;Keefe.</p>
<p>The museum also comprises two decorative arts centers, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, which houses one of the nation&#8217;s best collections of American decorative art and furniture , and Rienzi, a collection of European decorative arts begun in 1999. Each year, 1.25 million people benefit from museum&#8217;s programs, workshops and resource centers. Of that total, more than 500,000 people participate in the community outreach programs.</p>
<p>Staff conservators carry out treatments on paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. Technical examination of art works is a vital component for devising treatment and methodology. There is ample Pre-Columbian gold, and the European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularly popular here. Kids will love the masks, figures, hats, and knives in the museum&#8217;s African collection from Nigeria&#8217;s early Nok culture which spans some 2,500 years. I really wanted to photograph more there, but they have what appears to be a “no photo, except in one or two galleries of European paintings” policy. As I noted before, though, they have an incredible lack of attentive docents - I was able to photograph pretty freely in a few areas, which worked out OK.</p>
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		<title>A Review of the UMFA Utah Museum of Fine Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salt Lake has more than its fair share of galleries and artists. The Utah Museum of Fine Art is world known.   Featured in a recent exhibition are some late artist’s most popular “suites” or portfolios of work including the &#8220;Maos,&#8221; &#8220;Marilyn Monroes,&#8221; &#8220;Campbell’s Soup,&#8221; &#8220;Mick Jaggers,&#8221; &#8220;Ten Jews,&#8221; and &#8220;Cowboys and Indians.&#8221;  In addition [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salt Lake has more than its fair share of galleries and artists. The Utah Museum of Fine Art is world known.   Featured in a recent exhibition are some late artist’s most popular “suites” or portfolios of work including the &#8220;Maos,&#8221; &#8220;Marilyn Monroes,&#8221; &#8220;Campbell’s Soup,&#8221; &#8220;Mick Jaggers,&#8221; &#8220;Ten Jews,&#8221; and &#8220;Cowboys and Indians.&#8221;  In addition several individual prints are highlighted including &#8220;John F. Kennedy&#8221;.</p>
<p>They contain rich collections of fine art, dinosaur bones, Native American artifacts and gems. Learn more about the interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, museum events, lecture series and classes each museum offers. They began collecting art in the early 1900s, when modern art was still not widely known, let alone appreciated.</p>
<p>Each winner will also be invited to attend a workshop at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts taught by a notable regional artist. The date of the workshop is to be determined. The news that appears on Utah Museum of Fine Arts will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere. It is best to check on the official Utah Museum of Fine Arts website for any scheduled special events and exhibits (see Resources below).</p>
<p>Special educational programs, concerts, lectures, and an exceptionally knowledgeable staff complement the exhibits. Located adjacent to the University of Utah in high tech Research Park, the University Park Marriott has 218 guest rooms, each equipped with remote-control TV, high speed internet service and in room coffee. Hotel services include a restaurant, lounge, indoor pool, whirlpool and fitness room. It forecasts a greater future for art and humanity.&#8221;  Ehren Clark is an art critic for &#8220;in utah this week&#8221;, &#8220;15 Bytes&#8221;, and a contributor to various other publications.</p>
<p>In its fourth week going on, the show has managed to attract around 14550 visitors so far and 520 visitors every day on an average. Information is available at the Visitor’s Desk in the lobby or you can call 585.0464. On weekdays, the UMFA will validate visitor parking for up to 2 hours. Validations are available at the UMFA store.</p>
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		<title>What to Expect at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was it like to excavate an ancient temple or burial chamber and watch a brilliantly painted statue of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian official emerge from the sands? Such a dream exists today not only among amateur archaeologists and ancient Egypt fans, but also among scholars. Last year, the museum returned a painting to Poland that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What was it like to excavate an ancient temple or burial chamber and watch a brilliantly painted statue of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian official emerge from the sands? Such a dream exists today not only among amateur archaeologists and ancient Egypt fans, but also among scholars. Last year, the museum returned a painting to Poland that had been plundered by the Nazis. ICA presents impressive rotating exhibits of 20th- and 21st-century art, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance art and imaginative shows - from baseball to the concept of emotion. The visionary museum captures contemporary culture through stimulating films, musical performances, poetry readings, lectures and educational programs, and provides a dynamic waterfront space for experience contemporary art.</p>
<p>The American collections include Paul Revere&#8217;s silver, New England furniture, and a selection of paintings from all eras of America&#8217;s history. Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston&#8217;s collections are represented in ARTstor with over 13,000 images, along with a related collection of more than 22,000 photographs documenting the museum&#8217;s excavations at the Giza pyramids from 1905 to 1942. He&#8217;s familiar with the MFA&#8217;s collection, having sold paintings to the museum over the years. And he knew of the museum&#8217;s rich Monet collection of 36 paintings. Lori?s multi-dimensional paintings, and Judith Stone?s multimedia cityscapes.</p>
<p>This style, which draws on elements of classical and Renaissance architecture, calls for painting and sculpture to decorate a building’s interior. Thus in 1916 the Museum’s trustees hired Sargent to create murals for the Museum’s rotunda, the hub of the building. Shackelford said it is one of the four or five most important German and Austrian expressionist paintings in the museum&#8217;s collection. The MFA&#8217;s collection of approximately 350,000 objects was built from a core of paintings and sculpture from the Boston Athenaeum, historical portraits from the city of Boston, and donations by area universities. The early MFA connoisseurs were as enamored as any cultured Victorians with the great art of European civilizations.</p>
<p>Been around the globe since then and the masters paintings will rival any collection in the world such as the Louvre and Hermitage. Early America displays will blow your mind if your are into that period. The collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts spanning 300 years, from locations around the world.</p>
<p>Secondly, it has quite a few collection of Monet, one of my favorites. When I was a master&#8217;s degree student in Boston, they happened to have a special Exhibition on Monet in which I understand many more was brought in for the purpose. My kids were with me and thank goodness were very tolerant as I spent hours perusing the Egyptian art, the print collection, the impressionists. What a great place.</p>
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		<title>Back to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a collection of more than 45,000 works housed in a family of buildings that boast 300,000 square feet of space, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the fifth largest museum in the country. Holdings include works that span from ancient to modern times and represent a vast array of mediums. There are tons [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a collection of more than 45,000 works housed in a family of buildings that boast 300,000 square feet of space, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the fifth largest museum in the country. Holdings include works that span from ancient to modern times and represent a vast array of mediums. There are tons of lectures and symposia pertaining to the exhibits and collections, including the always enjoyable annual Textiles and Costume Institute public lecture. Through exhibitions, programs, research and publications, the Museum documents and interprets its own collections. It provides information and perspective on art through time and throughout the world.</p>
<p>Almost midway between Reliant Stadium and downtown, Houston&#8217;s Museum District offers a range of museums, galleries, and art and cultural institutions, including the City&#8217;s major museums. Approximately 4 million people visit institutions in the Museum District every year. The MFAH is especially adept at finding new customers in parts of its hometown that other cultural institutions overlook. This is its story.</p>
<p>Once we finally got in line for the art exhibit, I was tired of standing for 3 hours. I&#8217;d recommend coming to this museum if you are ever in Houston and coming often as the exhibits are always changing. Perspectives is a fast-paced series of medium-sized exhibitions focusing on cycles of work by emerging and well-known artists not previously shown in Houston. Over 135 shows have taken place within the series that continues today.</p>
<p>We were a sharp looking group with matching outfits and sequin Texas vests as we paraded downtown Houston. This may have been the worlds shortest parade in distance, yet drew an amazing number of people. From 1994 to 2002, students moved from 44.9% to 90.2% on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. African American students&#8217; test scores rose by almost 60%.</p>
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		<title>A Review of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art. The Museum aims for the highest standards of quality in all its endeavors. The original MFA opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art. The Museum aims for the highest standards of quality in all its endeavors. The original MFA opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation&#8217;s centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. In 1986, they made a naming gift for a gallery, while another donation in 1995 endowed the prints and drawings curator position in the MFA&#8217;s department of prints, drawings, and photographs. A third gift in 1998 made possible the restoration of the Colonnade and Upper Rotunda, home to murals by Sargent.</p>
<p>The MFA has long contended it did not know of any stolen objects in its collection. But a 1998 examination of MFA records by the Globe showed that 61 of 71 classical objects acquired from 1985 to 1987 had no documentation. One of the most comprehensive museums in the world, the MFA in Boston encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. The treasures here are from every era and all parts of the world. He has also led the MFA into successfully selling its extensive catalog of art-inspired products on the Web. As a non-profit institution, we value that LISTSERV and LSMTP are both reliable and affordable.</p>
<p>There are more than 24,000 objects in the collection, and some of them are paintings on canvas and ivory, works of decorative art, metalwork, and ceramics and glass artifacts. French decorative arts of the 18th century and sculpture featuring masterpieces from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are significant. Napoleon greets visitors as they enter the gallery by way of a full length portrait of the Emperor in his coronation robes painted in 1812 by Robert Lefevre. The impressive studio oil on canvas (now in the MFA’s permanent collection) pleased Napoleon more than another portrait placed further into the gallery. LifeNULL or TheatreNULL A Play with Music is the title Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) gave to the approximately 780 paintings in which she fictionalized her own life to create a testament to survival and the power of memory. As she was about to be deported, Salomon bundled up the works and handed the package to a local physician with the poignant words, -Take good care of it, it is my whole life.- This exhibition includes more than four hundred of these powerful paintings from the permanent collection of the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An incredible artist and a wonderful human being, Elizabeth Opalenik. Her slap on my ear during a workshop taught me more about paying attention to what&#8217;s in the viewfinder than any other lesson I&#8217;ve had. I have worked with some beautiful models over the many years I have been a photographer. As a result I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An incredible artist and a wonderful human being, Elizabeth Opalenik. Her slap on my ear during a workshop taught me more about paying attention to what&#8217;s in the viewfinder than any other lesson I&#8217;ve had. I have worked with some beautiful models over the many years I have been a photographer. As a result I do not provide models with unprocessed images for any reason nor do I allow them to manipulate or alter the images from the form and format in which I deliver them. I would much rather you ask me for a special process or sizing of an image after delivery then to risk having it done by someone who may or may not have the skills in photo processing / retouching to best represent us both to the world.</p>
<p>On a side note: I am also available to collaborate in a stylist capacity for other photographers. I have quite an extensive selection of props: clothing/costuming, accessories, etc., and can even hold my own with hair and make-up. My models are beautiful, strong women who have no need for a masquerade with the use of a make up artist or a plastic surgeon. You will not find any silicone here (after all, it&#8217;s meant to be beautiful and tasteful none of which can be appointed to fake boobs - besides, I find fake b(o)(o)bies just plain gross). Our studio cannot be described as a standard wedding photographer , or even a portait photographer - we don&#8217;t do much conventional craft photography, we do fine art.</p>
<p>Freelance and portrait photographers need technical proficiency, gained through a degree, training program, or experience. McCalip sets his models against canvases: simple and primitive settings which add light to the subject of a piece instead of digressing from its focus. Both land and water; McCalip utilizes the natural world to intensify the grace and definition of his models. This show features images of my Bohemian wanderings in the Bahamas. All the images have been manipulated and show my idea of the Bahamas, not what my camera sees. Anyone is capable of taking good pictures of the beautiful beaches and seas but this was not my intention with this show.</p>
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		<title>A Review of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a commitment to the cutting-edge, the Chaney Family Collection embraces this radical and exuberant flowering in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and digital media. In the painting Where Clouds Disperse, from which the exhibition derives its title, he empties out the center, the traditional focus of a painting, creating visual incident only at the sheet’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a commitment to the cutting-edge, the Chaney Family Collection embraces this radical and exuberant flowering in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and digital media. In the painting Where Clouds Disperse, from which the exhibition derives its title, he empties out the center, the traditional focus of a painting, creating visual incident only at the sheet’s edges. Since most of the composition is unarticulated, the viewer comes to see the negative space, the “non-existing,” in Suh’s words, as an element of equal concern to the artist as the area of his active marks.</p>
<p>The artist had taken normal everyday things and painted them, in fifty foot dimensions, so as to make them seem like foreign objects. Classified under the pop art genre, these murals contained great color schemes, and wonderful use of three dimension illusions. In another aesthetic format, he created a contemporary version of traditional icon painting, but with secular subjects: African-American musicians and athletes who had broken barriers to become respected figures in popular culture. Over the years, she gradually gave these paintings to the museum, completing this supremely generous gift with the balance of the collection in 1998. Beck died in 2003, but her gift to the museum remains one of the largest, most important and most valuable in the museum&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>Throughout his career, he used writing in a variety of ways, sometimes to reinforce or clarify the painted images, sometimes to narrate parts of the work that couldn&#8217;t be rendered pictorially, and sometimes to work against the image. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he returned to creating works based on writing, a method he had first pursued in the 1930s. Expert commentaries enable readers to learn in greater depth about the outstanding collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, metals, textiles, featherwork, lacquer, and books housed in the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. Staff conservators carry out treatments on paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. Technical examination of art works is a vital component for devising treatment and methodology.</p>
<p>The collections that are of importance to both the MFAH and designers are the decorative arts. The only one actually housed in the main MFAH campus is the Art of Design collection. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston contains galleries, a restaurant, a museum store and curatorial space; it also houses the museum&#8217;s permanent antiquities and European collection. After its completion in early 2000, the gallery space from the Audrey Jones Beck Building, coupled with the existing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston buildings, raised the museum&#8217;s rank in square footage among art museums to sixth in the nation. Admission to the permanent collection is free on Thursdays. For more information, call (713) 639-7300.</p>
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		<title>No Such Thing as Fine Art Photography Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A typical model&#8217;s photoshoot will involve taking 3 or more rolls of 36 exposures in both color and black &#38;amp; white. On location charges may be extra depending on the location of the shoot. I would like to work with real people, of all shapes and sizes and modeling experience is not required. You will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A typical model&#8217;s photoshoot will involve taking 3 or more rolls of 36 exposures in both color and black &amp;amp; white. On location charges may be extra depending on the location of the shoot. I would like to work with real people, of all shapes and sizes and modeling experience is not required. You will find modeling fun and liberating, and outdoors it can be important element into self discovery and self respect based on values of the beauty of nature and the human body. And in the very beginning, I showed them some landscapes and portraits I had made, telling that I was studying photography and wanted to start photographing the nude.</p>
<p>DOMAI is one of the world&#8217;s most popular and respected sites for art nude pictures, and we believe that the beauty of woman is valuable and should be admired without shame or guilt. DOMAI was founded in 1997, and pioneered the simple nudes concept. In addition to our lodge properties we have an array of wonderful scenery for off property shooting locations. Waterfalls, stone arch bridges, flowing creeks, old barns and houses, prairies, rolling hills, and a wonderful complex for a variety of studio lighting set ups. Basic concepts of professional art ideals and practices.</p>
<p>Our daily updated site offers beautiful, natural, nude girls captured in sensuous, professional, dazzling photos of the highest aesthetic quality by the World&#8217;s best photographers! MET also has an extensive archive of high quality movies MET ART is a complete immersion in flawless beauty. Occasionally I will hire exceptional professional models. Payment is negotiable based on need, I can pay a small stipend for your time or expenses. BODYSCAPES  - A photography gallery of collectible, sensual, erotic art, black and white photographs of the nude body which give the impression of landscape. These monochrome art photographs are done in limited editions for the collector of fine art.</p>
<p>Learn about our male model search and how you can appear in our work. Her work includes children and family portraiture, weddings, model portfolios, travel photography and more. Although based out of Atlanta, Georgia, Ellen travels often to Mississippi for portrait work and special event photography jobs. Some models function clearly better with music, other don’t bother. For me, it depends.</p>
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		<title>How to Find Good Fine Art Prints</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My outdoor &#8220;office&#8221; is decorated with the moods of nature - Here I am inspired to create. I sit quietly and wait. Artwork is often the final decorating touch in a room. As one of the elements that can bring a room together, art brings interest and color to the wall spaces, provides a focal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My outdoor &#8220;office&#8221; is decorated with the moods of nature - Here I am inspired to create. I sit quietly and wait. Artwork is often the final decorating touch in a room. As one of the elements that can bring a room together, art brings interest and color to the wall spaces, provides a focal point, and generally livens up the place. Our products will excite you with the most requested faux finishes in decorative painting today.</p>
<p>Always use a mat; digital fine art prints should not touch the glass in a frame. Fine art prints are available as unframed or as prints framed in a wide selection of materials and styles—from contemporary metals, traditional woods and baroque finishes. Online print shops often have a handy frame selection tool which allows you to select the frame that compliments both the print and your decor. We sell fine art prints inspired by antique prints from over 100 years ago. Our prints are excellent quality and value.</p>
<p>Fine art prints of Italy, France, the Southwest and western USA: flowers, gardens, wine, chili peppers and Italian art paintings for sale. In addition to paintings and commissions, Helen offers fine art prints and note cards for purchase online. I hope to excite you with bold beautiful color and unique design as you view the three galleries of giclee fine art prints. Giclee prints on canvas are truly the &#8220;next best thing to an original&#8221;.</p>
<p>Look through our window on sky, a rich source of fine art prints for interior designers, art collectors and consultants, and home decorators. Ideal wall d?r for hotels, hospitals, restaurants, corporate offices and homes, our prints provide an integrating theme that speaks many languages and expresses many moods.</p>
<p>Your framed prints will arrive complete and ready to hang. Or if you prefer, you may order prints without frames. Framed prints are matted and framed in a stylish black frame with plexiglass cover. Frames include complete backing. Besides, Canvas Prints (giclees) do not need to be framed with protective glass so the image can be seen clearly without bothersome glares. The natural texture of the canvas gives to the print the exact look and feel of an original oil painting.</p>
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