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Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl.It is housed in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life.
The work has had substantial implications in the art world. The sofa on which Madame Récamier reclines is now known as a récamier, a backless couch with a high curved headrest and low footrest. [10] Récamier had such seats in her own Salon, now housed at the Louvre. [11] Portrait of Marguerite Kelsey, Meredith Frampton,1928
The Marshmallow sofa was designed in 1954 by Irving Harper. [3] For decades, the design of the Marshmallow sofa was attributed to George Nelson, as was the practice for designs coming out of George Nelson Associates, Inc. [3] However, it was later revealed that many of the firm's designs were those of other designers working for the firm. [3]
The Mae West Lips Sofa is a surrealist sculpture in the form of a sofa by Salvador Dalí. The light red, 110 cm × 183 cm × 81.5 cm (43 in × 72 in × 32 in) sized seating furniture made of polyurethane foam coated with a red polidur coating was shaped after the lips of actress Mae West , whom Dalí apparently found fascinating. [ 1 ]
Terming much of her sculpture as "functional art" Nicola L. created objects resembling furniture, which were based on the artist tracing real bodies, exaggerating, and simplifying their contours. In "La Femme Commode" (1969-2014) lacquered wood cabinets are arranged in the shape of a body, with eyes, mouths, and breasts serving as drawers.
Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain). Two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects are often represented through shade (darkness) or hue . Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.
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Hyperrealist painters and sculptors make allowances for some mechanical means of transferring images to the canvas or mold, including preliminary drawings or grisaille underpaintings and molds. Photographic slide projections or multi media projectors are used to project images onto canvases and rudimentary techniques such as gridding may also ...