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A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة, romanized: khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [1] [2] [3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.
Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam: [ɾaːdʒaː ɾɐʋi ʋɐrm(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906 [3] [4]) was an Indian painter and artist.His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
Shakuntala or Shakuntala looking for Dushyanta is an 1898 epic painting by Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.. Ravi Varma depicts Shakuntala, an important character of Mahabharata, pretending to remove a thorn from her foot, while actually looking for her husband/lover, Dushyantha, while her friends tease her and call her bluff.
The hamsa hand can be represented in a drawing, a painting, an object, jewelry — just about anywhere in the home or on the body. There’s really no rule about who can use a hamsa.
Head of a Young Woman was painted in 1906 by Picasso when he was 24 years old. [3] It is an example of a period of his early works in the 1900s that is known as his Rose Period . The oil painting is a portrait of a young woman with long, dark hair and a sideways stare and has an estimated value of €26 million.
The Khamsa was a popular subject for lavish manuscripts illustrated with painted miniatures at the Persian and Mughal courts in later centuries. Examples include the Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208) , created for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 1590s.
Black Leaf on Green Background: 1952 Gouache decoupage Houston: Menil Collection: Blue Nude II: 1952 Gouache-painted paper cut-outs stuck to paper mounted on canvas 116.2 × 88.9 cm Paris: Centre Pompidou [a] The Black Woman: La Négresse: 1952/3 gouache découpée 55.3 × 46 cm Paris: Centre Pompidou [a] The Sorrows of the King: 1952 Gouache
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...