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Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit:
He is best known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. [1] His work has been featured in numerous publications, including SF Weekly , the Wisconsin Gazette and Missionlocal.org. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2008, Novy was the recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts grant. [ 4 ]
Utsurimono (写り物) is a black koi with white, red, or yellow markings, in a zebra color pattern. The oldest attested form is the yellow form, called "black and yellow markings" (黒黄斑, Kuro ki madara) in the 19th century, but renamed Ki Utsuri (黄写り) by Elizaburo Hoshino, an early 20th-century koi breeder.
Art writers noted several elements of the painting as dominant, either visually or thematically. Moir, for example, notes the key role that the contrast between light and shadow plays in the composition: a window placed high on the left allows a ray of light to penetrate the room, illuminating, as it slides over the wall, the boy, the lush fruit basket, the shirt sleeve, the sensual bare ...
Anabas cobojius, the Gangetic koi, popularly known as Koi in Bengali, is a species of climbing gourami native to Bangladesh and India, where it occurs in many types of standing water bodies. This species reaches a total length of 30 cm (12 in) and is carnivorous, feeding on water invertebrates and their larvae.
The Fruit Bowl is an early 20th century drawing by Juan Gris. The work was produced as part of a collaboration between Gris and Pierre Reverdy to commission a book filled with lithographs made from the former's paintings. The project was interrupted by the onset of World War I in 1914 and never finished.
A Dutch court convicted five men for their part in last month's violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam.
In 1929, Matisse once again included goldfish in his art. He produced a variety of drawings and prints featuring the motif. [4] In November, he produced a series of ten etchings featuring a female head looking at a goldfish bowl. [15] While working on the series, Matisse sketched directly onto small, hand-held copper plates. [15]