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Bear Surprise (often dubbed just Surprise! ) is a watercolor painting by American painter/musician John Lurie , the style of which has been described as primitivist and naïve . [ 1 ] The painting depicts a couple having sex in a meadow, with a bear standing in front of them, with forepaws in a distinctive position.
Nelson and the Bear is an 1809 painting by the British artist Richard Westall. [1] It depicts an incident in 1773 involving Horatio Nelson, then a fifteen-year-old midshipman accompanying a polar expedition to try and find the Northwest Passage. Nelson and a friend were at one point attacked by a polar bear.
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Rhonda Holy Bear, Cheyenne River Lakota, sculptor, beadworker, dollmaker, born 1959 [5] Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty, Assiniboine-Sioux; Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Assiniboine-Sioux; Teri Greeves, Kiowa; Vanessa Jennings, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache/Gila River Pima; Maude Kegg, Mille Lacs Ojibwe (1904–1996)
An artist working on a watercolor using a round brush Love's Messenger, an 1885 watercolor and tempera by Marie Spartali Stillman. Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French:; from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), [1] is a painting method [2] in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based ...
The modern Latvian military award Order of Lāčplēsis, named for the hero, is also known as The Order of the Bear-Slayer. [citation needed] In the Hindu epic poem The Ramayana, the sloth bear or Asian black bear Jambavan is depicted as the king of bears and helps the title-hero Rama defeat the epic's antagonist Ravana and reunite with his ...
Kiowa ledger art drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow battle in 1874, a fight between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War.. Ledger art is narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, predominantly practiced by Plains Indian, but also from the Plateau and Great Basin.
Head of a Bear remains one of only eight known Leonardo drawings in private hands (excluding those in the British Royal Collection and the Devonshire Collection). The 2021 sale was the first of a Leonardo drawing since Horse and Rider was sold, also at Christie's, in 2001 for £8.1 million (including fees). [2]