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Via this website, the museum also enables users to download and use, without any restrictions, high quality images of nearly 20,000 works of art they deem to be in the public domain. Virtual tour of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art provided by Google Arts & Culture; Media related to Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Wikimedia Commons
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Dean Byington, Theory of Machines (Grand Saturn), oil on linen, 57.5" x 65", 2017. Dean Byington (born 1958), is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2] He is known for large, hyper-detailed mixed-media paintings and paper collages of labyrinthine landscapes and invented universes that serve as settings for enigmatic allegories on nature, culture, time and humanity's ...
A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645. Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers ...
The Wanderer is categorized within a group of Grosz's artworks described as 'hell pictures.' These paintings incorporate recurring elements such as fire, death, and darkness portraying an apocalyptic landscape. Many drawings created in the 1930s anticipated the arrival of the 'hell pictures' with two among them foreseeing The Wanderer. [4]
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. [1] A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea ...
Leon Dabo, Flowers in a Green Vase, c. 1910s, pastel. A pastel (US: / p æ ˈ s t ɛ l /) is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms.
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.