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Dimensions. 349.3 cm × 776.5 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in) Location. Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1][2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in ...
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo. Commonly known as The Third of May 1808.) [1] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 94.8 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in) Location. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog[ a ] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [ 2 ] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered ...
In the 2002 movie, About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson's character Warren falls asleep in the bath whilst composing a letter, recreating David's painting. The painting was used as the album art for American band Have a Nice Life's 2008 album Deathconsciousness. The painting was used as the album art for American band The New Regime’s 2008 album Coup.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1950) [ 1 ] Occupation. Painter. Known for. Expressionist paintings. Spouse. Janet Neiman (née Byrne) [ 1 ] LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes ...
100 Great Paintings. 100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [ 1 ] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ] The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with ...
84 cm × 152 cm (33.1 in × 60.0 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Nighthawks is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban ...
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings— Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [ 1 ] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.