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A straightedge or straight edge is a tool used for drawing straight lines, or checking their straightness. If it has equally spaced markings along its length, it is usually called a ruler . Straightedges are used in the automotive service and machining industry to check the flatness of machined mating surfaces.
Portrait of a Fat Man, oil on oak wood, 285 mm × 177 mm (11.2 in × 7.0 in).Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Version in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Portrait of a Fat Man (or Portrait of a Stout Man or Portrait of Robert de Masmines) [1] are names given to two near-identical oil on panel paintings attributed to the Early Netherlandish artist Robert Campin.
One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a two-dimensional (flat) shape or a three-dimensional form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline, and a three-dimensional form can be indicated by contour lines. [1]
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DeYoung Museum, National Academy Museum and School, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester ...
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Ronald "Ron" Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, [1] [2] hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.
"One-Corner" or "Ma's One-Corner" (Chinese traditional: 馬一角; Chinese simplified: 马一角）is a particular type of composition in traditional Chinese painting. It was popular in the Southern Song dynasty Imperial Academy Painting, and the painters pushed the actual subjects of the painting to one corner and set them against the empty background suggestive of mist or snow. [1]
The painting was included in most Rembrandt catalogs of the 20th century along with its pendant, Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, which has recently been disputed as autograph. The pendant is, however, still connected with Rembrandt's workshop and time period and is still considered a pendant to this painting.