Picasso's Masterpiece To Be Displayed In London

This particular painting was created by Picasso in 1932 and was sold at Christies in New York for a record price of $106.5 million. It will be displayed at the Tate Modern on London's South Bank.

Art lovers are excited because this is one of the most incredible paintings of Picasso. This is considered his greatest works of inter war period. 

This painting has been lent to the gallery by a private collector and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream wing of the building.

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Who Is Mona Lisa?

For many years, Italian researchers who solve art mysteries have now claimed that they have discovered who is the famous model  in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Silvano Vinceti is the chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage who said that Mona Lisa was actually a man and not a woman. He said that the model is in fact a male, named Salai who was an apprentice for Vinci. It is said that Salai worked with Vinci for 25 years and was his model and muse for various works of Vinci.

As per their claim and research there are many similarities between facial features of Salai as seen in other paintings of Vinci and the Mona Lisa.

 Salai as John the Baptist

Salai - Vinci's apprentice for 25 years

Moreover, Silvano Vinceti also said that Salai and Vinci were actually lovers and shared an intimate relationship. Perhaps, Mona Lisa was made only because of Vinci's inspiration for Salai. The research team also went on to say that Vinci also drew the letters L and S in Mona Lisa's eyes that could stand for Leonardo and Salai.

Experts at Louvre museum in Paris where the actual painting is on display say these claims by the Italian experts are quite ridiculous as this team don't even have the access to that painting itself. So people should not fall for what they say.

Well you can see closely the pictures for comparison as these are some of the famous pictures in which Salai posed. Mona Lisa always looked haunting to me. And those eyes that keep following you every where are quite scary. I feel it could be quite true what the Italian researchers are saying. There is far too much resemblance in Mona Lisa and John the Baptist (in which Vinci used Salai) paintings.

Paul Cézanne

Today is Paul Ce'zanne's 172nd birthday. I only know because of Google as their logo has been changed for today. Paul Ce'zanne was French artist and painter. I never knew who he was but I saw his paintings on google and they were really good. Here are just a few of his work. I really liked the colors and tones he used and those fruit paintings remind me of a painting we had in our dining hall in our old house when I was a kid. That painting was also recorded in my aunt's mayun ceremony that took place in our home.

Anyway, some people are so great they are remembered so long after they are gone because of their work.

Salman Khan's Paitings

These are just some of the paintings I saw on the net done by Salman Khan.

Salman at Charitable Organization

Here is Salman Khan at a charitable organization since he has been involved social work pretty much these days. Along with it, he also promotes his own organization Being Human.

Besides being known as the official bad boy of Bollywood, the actor has worked a lot on social causes time and again. Interestingly, there is a soft emotional side of the actor that he discovered or perhaps the world discovered during the shooting of Veer. It was noticed that the actor started painting and drawing with his fingers in his free time. He was so impressive that he helped in the art direction and set up as well. Later on, he made a lot of paintings and will be auctioning them too. When he went to Greece for a shoot, he used to capture the places and paint them on canvas as well after the shoot. Apart from that he is specially good at making faces of gods like Shiva, he even painted Mother Teresa remembering her. 

Therefore, the man is just not all about anger, bicepts and bitchy girlfriends. There's definitely much more to him.