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  2. Day and Night (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Along the center, the image is divided into complementary black (right) and white (left), or, as the title suggests, day and night. The birds of the image contradict the overall partition of black and white throughout the image, as the black birds are in the white part of the image, while the white birds are in the black part, each of them ...

  3. Sleeping Lady with Black Vase - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Lady with Black Vase (Hungarian: Alvó nő fekete vázával) is a 1927–1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It is a depiction of the painter's wife reclining asleep in a blue dress behind a table on which is set a black vase. The painting was sold in 1928 and was considered lost after World War II.

  4. Dove (Picasso) - Wikipedia

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    The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace. The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also became an iconographic image of the period, known as "The dove of peace". An example is housed in the collection of the Tate Gallery and MOMA. Since ...

  5. Category:Birds in art - Wikipedia

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    The Barbarians (painting) The Beakful; List of wildlife works of art by Frank Weston Benson; Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger)

  6. Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots

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    The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-67505-3. McGhie, Henry A (2017). Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-78499-413-6. Noakes, Vivien (1986). Edward Lear, 1812–1888 ...

  7. The Sleeping Gypsy - Wikipedia

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    The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in 1939.

  8. H. H. Calvert - Wikipedia

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    This misidentification is exacerbated by both men having similar names and painting careers which overlapped in the early 1920s. In terms of subject matter, style and medium, Harold's art mirrored that of Herbert, however, the son usually signed his paintings as H. Hep. Calvert or H. Hepburn Calvert which helps differentiate his output.

  9. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious ...