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However, there are works which express love, sensuality, eroticism and life such as "Venus mexica" (1949), "la niña de la morena" (1940) and "La dama de las frutas" (1949). [3] He began his career as a sculptor which influenced his painting by adding volume and solidity to his images.
Chinese dama (simplified Chinese: 中国大妈; traditional Chinese: 中國大媽; lit. 'Chinese big mother') is a term for describing Chinese middle-aged women. The term has several meanings and has experienced changes over the years.
Pombajira (from Kimbundu: pambu ia njila, lit. ' crossroads ' [1]) is the name of an Afro-Brazilian spirit evoked by practitioners of Umbanda and Quimbanda in Brazil. [2] [3] She is the consort of Exu, who is the messenger of the Orixas in Candomblé.
His first novel, Fotos de Laura, was applauded by critics and awarded, [4] as was his second compilation of stories, La educación. [5] After these two books appeared in 2012, he published the novels Lacra , La patria – whose main character is Francisco Javier Cuadra , minister of Augusto Pinochet [ 6 ] – and Pascua , "which has at its ...
The Lady with an Ermine [n 1] is a portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci.Dated to c. 1489–1491, the work is painted in oils on a panel of walnut wood.
The Lady of the Lake (French: Dame du Lac, Demoiselle du Lac, Welsh: Arglwyddes y Llyn, Cornish: Arlodhes an Lynn, Breton: Itron al Lenn, Italian: Dama del Lago, Vietnamese: Hồ trung yêu nữ) is a title used by multiple characters in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur.
La maja vestida, c. 1803.Museo del Prado, Madrid. Although the two versions of the Maja are the same size, the sitter in the clothed version occupies a slightly larger proportion of the pictorial space; according to art historian Janis Tomlinson she seems almost to "press boldly against the confines of her frame", making her more brazen in comparison to the comparatively "timid" nude portrait.
The French-born Mexican artist Jean Charlot played a key role in the rediscovery of Posada, who was little known after his death. The image we know as Catrina appeared in a book for the first time 1930, at which time the title Calavera Catrina was attached to it.