Directors and filmmakers often incorporate art, architecture ... making the ordinary extraordinary. 7. The Empire of Light by René Magritte Another nod to Magritte appears in the second episode ...

Also influenced by Surrealism is Wassily Kandinsky’s Pointillé (estimate: $250,000 – 350,000). The Russian painter and art theorist is often credited with painting one of the first purely abstract ...

After a nearly 10-minute bidding war on Tuesday, Empire of Light ... work of art at auction,” according to auction house Christie’s. L’empire des lumieres by Rene Magritte (1956), auction ...

The auction will span the timeline of Western art history from important works of Impressionism, Surrealism and Modern art by René Magritte ... with a mesmerising light installation by James ...

A work on paper creation by Picasso and light installation piece by James ... a Fernando Botero sculpture, a René Magritte painting and Richard Mille timepiece. In the end, Magritte’s L ...

Rare watches, jewelry, sports memorabilia-and even a light installation by James ... after selling René Magritte's L'empire des lumières for a record $121 million in New York in November ...

The illumination of the street lamp and the foreboding nature of the art were inspired by René Magritte’s “Empire of Light” paintings. Bottom line: The poster for “Pulp Fiction” looks straight out of ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to make a digital painting of Rene Magritte's surreal oil painting, The False Mirror. Magritte eye base: <a href="http://goo.gl/54Cr8J ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his ...

Benko, the subject of a Wall Street Journal front-page story a year ago, built a $30 billion empire of trophy real estate and department stores, including stakes in Manhattan’s Chrysler Building ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...

An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives ... but the shape of a light bulb. What do you have there? That looks like a pear.