The work was presented as a gift to Filip Vujanovic, president of the Republic of Montenegro when he visited the Shanghai Expo in May.







Prior to the Olympic games, Drunken Beauty appeared as an ambassador of Chinese culture during the 180-day countdown to the Games as more than 50 million newspapers spread the charm of the painting.
The executive committee of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games presents an embroidery piece of Liu Linghua's oil painting Drunken Beauty to the director-general of the Game's opening ceremony Don Mischer.
The embroidery piece of Liu Linghua's oil painting Drunken Beauty is presented as a gift to singer Placido Domingo at a Shanghai concert last year.
A foreign philanthropist (second from left) bought the embroidery work for 50,000 yuan, which was donated to Wenchuan quake victims. He later donated the work itself to the Shanghai Charity Foundation. The foundation's Director-General Chen Tiedi (right) received the painting.
The embroidery of the work was presented as a gift to singer Celine Dion when she held a concert in Shanghai in 2008.
The executive committee of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games presents the embroidery to Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Games.
Wang Jiamu (left), general manager of the Shanghai Chinese Quintessence Art Co Ltd presents the embroidery to Xin Lancheng, deputy secretary of the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games.
The oil painting Drunken Beauty has been honored by use on authorized Expo postcards.
Honorary chairman of Chinese Kuomintang Party, Lien Chan (second from right), received a Drunken Beauty embroidery as a present when the painting displayed at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan in February. Present at the occasion were Liang Guoyang (second from left), group leader of the Taiwan NPC team and chairman of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, painter Liu Linghua (left) and Wang Jiamu, general manager of Shanghai Chinese Quintessence Art Co Ltd.
Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (second from right) views the oil painting Drunken Beauty at Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall when it was displayed in Taiwan.

Amazing Painting Of A Blind Artist The story of this blind artist is extraordinary and unbelievable. Professional CPA with a photographic memory, Lisa Fittipaldi lost her vision due to a vascular disease in 1993. She lost her job too, but overcame blindness and began painting in 1995. Her paintings are so colorful and bright; it’s hard to believe that they were drawn by a blind person who can’t even see colors or distance. The main challenge to Lisa was when she was told she could never create complex scenes of everyday life with people as main characters. But she managed to do so, and today her paintings are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Fittipaldi is a unique artist with an amazing inner vision. You can judge for yourself after the jump.

MAN AND A CAMEL

Santa Marta is a residential area for poor people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two Dutch artists decided to give the buildings of Santa Marta a radical makeover. Now 34 houses look colorful and bright.And I hope that people of Santa Marta feel themselves a bit happier.