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Maija Peeples-Bright (née Maija Gegeris; born 1942) [1] [2] is a Latvian-born American and Canadian painter, ceramist, and arts educator. She is known as one of the pioneers of the Funk art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. [3] Maija Peeples-Bright has gone by the names Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, and Maija Peeples.
Maija Dragūne (19 March 1945) is a Latvian graphic artist. She works in graphic art and book illustration , as well as paints watercolours. [ 1 ] Maija Dragūne made a great contribution to the illustration of Latvian books, working on the editions of notable authors: Ojārs Vācietis , Jānis Baltvilks, Vitauts Ļūdēns.
The prime version of The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close (Lady Lever Art Gallery) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903. [7]The 82 x 120 cm version does not have a definitive date it was painted, but it is probable it was soon after the exhibition of 1903 and likely to have been painted to satisfy a patron that had been disappointed not to be able to purchase the exhibited ...
The paintings have a reputation as Utamaro's most ambitious works. [19] According to the art historian Shūgō Asano, "The snow—moon—flowers paintings are extraordinary even amongst Utamaro's nikuhitsu-ga paintings." [18] [18] To the art historian Tadashi Kobayashi, the paintings' "compositional power and dynamic postures are magnificent ...
The work depicts mountains covered by snow, under a deep blue-black cloudless evening sky. The foreground is framed by the silhouetted limbs of bare weathered trees, but the work is devoid of any sign of humans or animals. At the centre of the symmetrically balanced painting is a single bright star visible in a gap between two mountains.
Double Portrait, Halonen and his wife Maija, 1895 Self-Portrait, 1906 Woman in a Red Dress, 1911, depicting his daughter Anni. In 1895, Pekka Halonen married a young music student, Maija Mäkinen. They had eight children: four sons and four daughters. Halonen died in Tuusula on 1 December 1933. He was buried at the Tuusula Church in Tuusula. [5 ...
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis ...
The Soviet art historian Ariadna Zhukova considered the painting to be one of the most interesting works of the artist (including the First Snow, Tractor Drivers' Dinner, When Peace is on Earth). All of these paintings show children. Zhukova said that the artist was attracted to youth, freshness, and "the emergence of the new" in these paintings.