In China The Largest Snow Sculpture Ever Created

Romantic Feelings is a staggering 115ft high and 656ft long - the largest snow sculpture ever created.

600 sculptors from 40 countries have used 120,000 cubic feet of snow and ice to create the Olympic themed landscape - a vista of Russian churches, French cathedrals, Chinese palaces and, of course, an ice Acropolis.
This sculpture is the centerpiece of the Ice And Snow Festival, held annually in the northeastern city of Harbin, China.
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Stolen Paintings by Picasso, Portinari Recover in Sao Paulo

Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, thieves took just three minutes to steal Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" above and


Portinari's "O Lavrador de Cafe" from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art on Dec. 20.

The Picasso painting was valued by art experts at about $50 million, and the Portinari at $5-6 million.

Global Artists Indian and Brazilian Painting of a Couple

An Indian couple, mixed media on cardboard.

R. Marinho's acrylic on canvas

Van Gogh La Roubine le Roi

Vincent van Gogh
La Roubine le Roi
1888
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in.
Christie's
$19,802,500

Pablo Picasso Figures surréalistes

Pablo Picasso
Figures surréalistes (Carnet Dinard no. 1044 p. 9)
1928
"Drawing in Space"
Richard Feigen & Co.