Gurusum Weekly

“Everything you can imagine is real.”  ―  Pablo Picasso

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”  ―  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”  ―  C.S. Lewis

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”  ―  Edgar Degas

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”  ―  Vincent van Gogh

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”  ―  Woody Allen

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”  ―  Pablo Picasso

The current record price was paid for The Card Players by Paul Cézanne, which was sold for more than $250 million in 2011. The buyer was royal family of

Leonardo da Vinci may be best known for painting the world's most enigmatic smile, but a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace explores the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist's breathtaking anatomical studies of the human body.  "Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist",

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is seen in this undated handout photograph released in London February 21, 2012. Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" at an auction in New York on May 2, and expects it to fetch more than $80 million. The work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbour and patron of Munch, the auctioneer said on Tuesday 

Andrey Pavlov, a Russian photographer with commendable theatrical background chose a unique way of storytelling combining both the media. He devotedly studied the lives of ants, and planted histrionic props on their trails. There he photographed them live as if in a drama or movie. Except for the planned stage settings, all the rest is natural; no photo editing gimmicks involved,

Marilyn Monroe’s rare nude photos. The last ever photo-shoot which happened weeks before the icon’s death in 1962, will have the most prominent pictures go under the hammer in an event by auction house, Bonhams.  The lucky photographer in question was Bert Stern, who had captured them in his camera in June 1962, for the then upcoming issue of the Vogue magazine. They have been aptly titled ‘The last sitting’.