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Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Elsa Núñez. Elsa Núñez (born 1943) is a Dominican abstract artist whose work spans more than 50 years. [1] [2] [3] Elsa is the daughter of Mercedes Castillo de Núñez and Ramón Antonio Núñez. Her mother was a high school teacher, and her father served as a general in the Dominican military. Elsa's parents had 12 children and raised them ...
Martín Rico y Ortega (El Escorial 12 November 1833 – Venice 13 April 1908) was a Spanish painter of landscapes and cityscapes. Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international recognition as well, especially in France and the United States.
Cecilia Paredes. Cecilia Paredes (Lima, 1950) is a Peruvian-born multimedia artist residing in Philadelphia. Her primary themes include the power of nature, femininity, and migration, which have been subjects of many of her shows. She frequently utilizes natural elements, often recycled waste materials and primarily organic ones, in her ...
Grandes Maestros de la pintura Chilena (Great Masters of the Chilean Painting). Alberto Valenzuela Llanos [1] ( San Fernando, Chile, August 29, 1869 – Santiago, Chile, July 23, 1925), was one of Chile 's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González.
María Izquierdo (artist) María Izquierdo (born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez; October 30, 1902 – December 2, [ 1 ] 1955) was a Mexican painter. [ 2 ] She is known for being the first Mexican woman to have her artwork exhibited in the United States. [ 3 ]
Paris. On the left: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
In 1951, he won the National Prize for Painting and in 1955, the Herrera Toro Award, in the sixteenth Official Hall, besides other important awards. He was director of Museo de Bellas Artes of Caracas between 1942 and 1946. Manuel Cabré was a landscape painter with a proficiency in technique, color and form. He died in Caracas on February 26 ...