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Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]
Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
Figures by the Sea – 1931; Woman with Yellow Hair – 1931; Woman in a Red Armchair (1931), displayed in public for the first time in 2016 at the Met Breuer; [1] not to be confused with Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) (1931) [2] Girl before a Mirror – 1932 [3]
Sacred mountain, one of the twelve ornaments. In ancient China, embroideries on clothing were not only used as a mean to embellish clothing but also held symbolic meanings. [2] When used on dragon robes, lishui could be combined with turbulent waves and a rock in the middle of the clothing.
The idea of the Lady of the Mountain as motherland was a counterweight to the idea of the Danish King as "father" in nineteenth-century Iceland under Danish rule. After independence in 1944, it became one of the images through which feminism and the idea of powerful women, such as Iceland's first female president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , were ...
Qaf, as the primeval mountain, came to symbolise the cosmic mountain where the natural and supernatural met and the link between the terrestrial and celestial worlds was established. It is said that the anqa and rukh will come here. The emerald-made cities Jabulqa and Jabulsa, situated in darkness, are said to be contiguous to the mountain Qaf ...
Girl with a Flute (Dutch: Meisje met de fluit) is a small painting by Johannes Vermeer. [1] It is currently believed to have probably been painted between 1669–1675. [ 2 ] It is owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. along with three paintings attributed to Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance , A Lady Writing a Letter , and ...
In this work, Rembrandt shies away from classical conventions by showing her not as a glamorous beauty but as a frightened naturalistic looking girl. No other figure is included, but her alarmed look out of the picture space to the right creates narrative tension. The painting is an example of Rembrandt's rejection of idealized beauty.