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is ranked above alphabetically. Check out these words letter by letter.

B

Braque, Bacon, Bonnard, Borch, Balla, Boulogne, Bunker, Burri, Both, Bellows, Balthus, Botero, famous « B »s

Babo

Babo, not so mad and very great

Banking

Banking: a hell as well as a heaven

Baroque

Baroque: eccentricity escaping from mediocrity

Bas-relief

Bas-relief: sculpture in two dimensions

Beautiful

What is beautiful is a question of impression and love

Beauty

Beauty is often as near as 1cm or 1 kg to ugliness

J-A-A

Benefactor

A patron is either a benefactor or a speculator

J-A-A

Bequeath

It is better to give in your lifetime than to bequeath

J.P.A.A

Bibelot

The bibelot is better in the shop window than for use

J-A-A

Bible

The Akoun: the bible for the art enthusiast

Posters

Bidding

The bids are climbing: every artist’s dream

J-A-A

Biography

The biography is the ancestor of the CV

J-A-A

Birth place

There is always a birth place for art even if those who are its parents come from the street

J-A-A

Black

White letters on black background: it’s a Ben.

J.P.A.A

Blackmail

Love and art should never be the object of blackmail

J-A-A

Blazon

The blazon is to the noble what the name is to the poor man

J-A-A

Blue

Blue: from violet to green via yellow and red

Blur

Blur has no half measures: either it proves talent or mediocrity

J-A-A

Body

The human body, without which art would just resemble a florist’s shop window

J-A-A

Bohemia

Bohemia is the art of being happy in poverty; unfortunately nobody has ever made collections of it.

Boudin

She has everything from an Eugène Boudin; everything which is elegant or everything from a cow?

J-A-A

Broker

A good broker is the one who finds what you are looking for

J-A-A

Bronze

The bronze is draped in its patina; so beautiful and so light that it always seems to be cold

J-A-A

Brush

For the background there was the brush; unfortunately too often for the forms too

J-A-A

Brush stroke

A brush stroke has nothing to do with a pencil stroke; one is common, the other is rare

J-A-A

Burin

The burin: 95% left to the talent of the gesture and 5% to chance

Jean Hautiais

by Le AKOUN, International best-seller of valuation books in the field of art since 1985