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A Balloon Site, Coventry is an oil-on-canvas painting undertaken in 1942 by the British artist Laura Knight.It portrays a group of people—mostly women—working to launch a barrage balloon on the outside of Coventry, an industrial city in the Midlands that was the target of a German bombing raid in November 1940, when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city.
In 1878 he began to paint pictures full of optimism, a symbol of boldness and youth. Many of his works included themes of technological progress and innovation. His painting "bubble" symbolizes progress, as the air one forgets about all your petty problems and develop your imagination.
1873-74. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 80.3 cm × 60.3 cm (31.6 in × 23.75 in) Location. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Boulevard des Capucines is an oil on canvas street scene painting of the famous Paris boulevard by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet created in 1873.
Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (French: Couple aux Têtes Pleines de Nuages) is a 1936 diptych painting by Salvador Dalí. The oil on plywood work represent tables in a desert landscape and are cut out like the silhouettes of the characters in Jean-François Millet 's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus).
Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." [1] His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in ...
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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486).Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence Detail: the face of Venus. The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s.
1962. Movement. Pop art. Dimensions. 137 cm × 137 cm (54 in × 54 in) Location. Private collection. Masterpiece is a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that uses his classic Ben-Day dots and narrative content contained within a speech balloon. In 2017, the painting sold for $165 million.