Bernard Picture Co. Lithograph question?
I found a poster of Malcolm X today at a yard sale. The seller knew nothing about it and I paid $2 for it because I liked the history involved in it. After I got home, I tried to do some research on it. At the bottom it left corner it says "PO-1200", at the bottom in the middle it says "Bernard Picture Co. Inc. Stamford, Ct (the copy right C) 1992" and the bottom right says "Litho in U.S.A.". It is a print of a painting of Malcolm X. The background is half red and half green with a black "X" in the middle that has a painting of his face with the name "Malcolm" painted underneath in red. And under the "X" on the right, it says "(copy right) 1991 Ward Owens. I know it is printed on lithograph but nothing else. The only thing I have found on the internet is this link, which helps me very little. http://collections.museumca.org/?q=colle... I'm not looking to "flip" it for easy money or anything like that, but I do want to know more about this poster and any history behind it. Thanks for your time and help.
I have a Mickey Mantle Autograph from Stacks of Plaques Inc. Is this a reputable company?
Stacks of Plaques is a very reliable company-they've been around for 25 years.Steiner Sports sells a lot of their stuff and if there was anything fishy about them Steiner wouldn't go near them.Several other major memorabilia dealers also sell their stuff. It's hard to guess a value for this-looking at other Mantle lithographs (I believe what you have is likely a lithograph in fact-not merely "a print"-the process is different-lithos are GENERALLY more valuable).The price would depend on numerous things; the stated run of the item (as in how many were made)..size...overall condition...If you don't know how many of these are out there I'd suggest contacting Stacks of Plaques.On other sites Mantle auto'd lithos go anywhere from a low of $250 to ten times that.There is no standard price guide for this type of item. You can contact Stack of Plaques at the below link... http://www.stacksofplaques.net/catalog/c... Edit..OK I see you posted more while I was typing this out; basically you don't need to tell per se-If they verify it as authentic and you have the COA then its authentic.
Do you consider Art to be a priority in education? If not, why not? If so, why so?
Yes, art is a priority in education.In most of the non art courses there is usually one correct answer; this allows those whose dominant mode of thinking is convergent to excel. Those of us who are divergent thinkers find those courses challenging and the multiple choice tests frustrating and excessively time consuming.In any creative course such as art there is no correct answer. There is not one way to express a work of art. In those courses I get to excel and blossom. I need things I can get from non art courses and convergent thinkers need to experience courses in which their ability to think divergently is nurtured.Convergent thinking - WikipediaDivergent thinking - Wikipedia
I read somewhere that humans and dinosaurs may have lived together on earth, how real can this be?
The K–Pg (Cretaceous–Paleogene) boundary is a geological signature that marks the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66.043 ± 0.011 million years ago. This signature coincided with, and is almost certainly related to, a large meteorite impact at the Chicxulub crater. It also coincided with the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic and wiped out the giant reptiles.The accepted theory is that this meteor impact triggered catastrophic events which were followed by gradual environmental and climatic changes. The extreme volcanism of the Deccan Traps in the Indian subcontinent may account for climate change: a large scale release of dust and sulphuric aerosols into the air would have blocked sunlight and reduced photosynthesis in plants. This volcanism may itself have been triggered by seismic waves radiating from the Chicxulub impact.Regardless of the precise mechanism that caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, they disappeared from the fossil record around 66 million years ago. Some avian dinosaurs survived and evolved into modern birds, and a few related species (like Sphenodon punctatus) are still extant.If we take a snapshot of the K–Pg boundary, around 66 million years ago our human ancestor looked like this:Carpolestes simpsoni weighed around 100 grams, had grasping digits but no forward-facing eyes and was adapted to an arboreal habitat. It didn’t look very human. Modern humans are probably less than 330,000 years old: Jebel Irhoud.In other words, the dinosaur reptilian ancestors of modern birds coexisted with the shrew-like mammal ancestors of humans. No dinosaurs were around when Homo sapiens arrived on the scene; no H. sapiens (or primates of any sort) were eaten by T-Rex.
Where can I go to see the strangest thing in your city?
If you are coming into to Tucson, AZ from the East you can stop and see our very own desert mystery-The Thing!The exhibit—which used to cost one dollar for adults and seventy-five cents for children to enter—used to lead to three prefabricated corrugated steel sheds with overhead fluorescent track lighting. Inside are a variety of exhibits, including odd wood carvings of tortured souls by famous wood carver Ralph Gallagher, the "Wooden Fantasy" of painted driftwood purchased from an Alamogordo, New Mexico collector, framed 1880s to early 1900s lithographs, historic engraved saddles, guns and rifles of historic Western significance, a Conestoga wagon from Oklahoma! (Southern Pacific 1673, also appearing in Oklahoma!, is located at the Tucson, Arizona, train station), a buggy without a horse, and a vintage American automobile from the 1930s. Most of the exhibits are dusty but historically significant, and worthy of restoration. A sign by a 1937 Rolls-Royce mentions that it may have been used by Adolf Hitler, a supposition reiterated by the originator of the exhibit. Winding corridors and exhibit halls with painted monster footprints on the floors eventually lead to the "Thing", a mummified, likely female "Mother" of possibly Chinese or Native American descent (note the facial features and the addition of the Chinese worker hat and clothes) who died or likely was killed in the 1880s to early 1900s, and a mummified "Child" age and descent unknown but inferred to be the son or daughter of the "Mother". They are presented in separate but closely linked displays, coffin, and small coffin, bedding, and scratched plexiglass covering. One story as to the origin of the "Thing" are that the "Mother" and "Child" were illegal border crossers who were found and slaughtered by unknown cowboy bandits during a shootout and found decades later as mummified bodies by a rancher in the area who sold them to the owner/originator of the "Thing". But in this story, the harshness of the truth will never be uncovered, and the "Thing" will remain a mystery.[1][2]Richest mummy in Tucson.
Van gogh facts?
You can find a lot of facts on the internet. Here are some sites to get you started: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/time.html http://www.expo-vangogh.com/2.cfm http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm http://www.gbcnv.edu/~techdesk/DuaneGarcia/timeline.html