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A brightly coloured painting with people wandering about outside a mill in Paris is not perhaps what you would imagine from a Van Gogh painting.

But according to experts at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum the painting of a windmill has now been identified as the work of Van Gogh. According to them, the painting was completed in 1886.

It was bought 35 years ago by Dirk Hannema who founded the Museum de Fundatie where the painting has now gone on display. At the time, he believed it was a Van Gogh, but was discredited.

It is only now that he has been proved right.

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Artists are constantly trying to break the boundaries in a constant attempt to be the new trend setter. And sometimes the results can be a little embarrassing let alone pretentious.

But French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot has managed to carefully balance the fine line between interesting and unique art and pretentious, pointless art.

Her latest ‘piece’ consists of 40 zebra finches jamming on electric guitars and symbols.

This extraordinary piece of work can be seen in The Curve art space at the Barbican in London. The guitars act as perches for the birds while the cymbals are bird feeders.

As the birds fly and land on the instruments and walk about or peck on them, a unique sound is created.
Well, it’s certainly different.

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More Halloween news from the Tate Britain.

If you would like to spend halloween with your kids this year, this is the perfect oppurtunity to do so.

Children from the ages 5-12 can come and participate in what promises to be a great halloween themed day of stories and entertainment throughout the gallery.

Last years event proofed to be a good laugh and enjoyable time for both the children and accompying adults.

Entry is free and more details can be found at Tates website.

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A quickly selling halloween event is going on at the Fan Museum, October 29th.

After the musuem has shut, it will be shortly reopened at 6.30pm with a performance of drama, stories and verse celebrating the macabre.

Tickets are selling fast and are being limited for obvious reasons, so you will need to book them early if you would like to participate.

The Fan museum is the worlds first museum dedicated to showcasing the history and story of Fans reaching back to the 11th century to modern times.

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This month the Tate Gallery has been welcomed with Polands Miroslaw Balka’s Heart of Darkness.

The sculpture is over 13 metres high and 10 metres wide. It is a giant darkness filled box shape which can be entered via a ramp or can be walked underneath.

The piece was placed on show on the 13th October, but don’t worry it will be left alone till April 2010 when it will be replaced with the next artwork.

Balka’s other works include a set of corridors that visitors can also walk through and experience.

Let us know what you thought if you have recently visited Tate Gallery!

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If you work in digital imagery or photography you will know about the different ranges of software that can be purchased to really enchance your artwork.

For example, Adobe provides programs such as lightroom and photoshop to really change the outcome of digital photography.

One such method of enhancing an image comes from photoshop.

Open up an image and click image, top left. Now select in sequence “Auto Tone”, “Auto Colour” and “Auto Contrast”. This will automatically balance the colours, tones and contrast to usually give the picture a more “real” look.

Next, choose Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen. This will make the image crisper and comes out well if being presented on a monitor.

As you can see, there are a number of quick and easy ways to make your Digital Art look better with no hassle.

So what are you waiting for!

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Critics are ready to inspect the latest offering of artwork at the National Gallery later this week.

The gallery hopes to amaze with its new contempary style, with a range of promising artists contributing to the cause.

The exhibition plans to last around a few weeks so don’t miss it!

With the recent goings on in the art world, it will be interesting to find out whats instore as the last showing caused some controversial opinions!

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A new and exciting scheme has been started in the empty shops of Dunstable town centre were artists can come and display their art work.

The windows have been turned into mini art galleries and the local college students have featured their work in several shop windows.

The council and the college worked closely to make this a success and the plan is hopefully to look at other areas where they will be able to display more pieces of art work.

Hopefully all these colourful pieces of art will make the town more vibrant and more attractive to be people as well as prospective buyers while making it more pleasant for shoppers.

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An art museum is Israel is currently one of the most shocking art exhibitions to date, what appeared to be a collection of the Madonna with child on the theme of pious have turned on a closer inspection to be the holy virgins just reincarnated in the female body of the Palestinian suicide bombers.

The effect was meant to be shocking but no one took it well in Israel so just before it was about to go live it was dismantled and removed.

You should not paint acts of terrorism as people of holy saints as you are saying that it is ok to kill innocent lives and the relatives of victims filed complaints with the police about the display.

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Art insurers are looking at art claims so much closer at the moment as fears of fraudulent claims have shot up during the recession.

Experts have predicted that the number of false claims is still going to rise until the recession is over and the economy stables. In 2008 false claims rose by 17 per cent compared to that of the previous year which meant that around 2,000 claims were fraudulent making a total value of £730 million around 30 per cent up on the year 2007.

The only problem the insurers have is proving that they are false claims.

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