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W. J. H. B. Sandberg, Daedalus, 1960 Dora Maar found a large enough studio for Picasso to paint Guernica in. Through her connections in the left-wing community, she gained access to a space on Rue des Grands-Augustins, near Notre-Dame. This building had previously served as the headquarters of the ‘Contre-Attaque’ group, of which Maar was a dedicated member. Having listened to anti-fascist ...
100 Great Paintings. 100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [ 1 ] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ] The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with ...
84 cm × 152 cm (33.1 in × 60.0 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Nighthawks is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban ...
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun. Gunki hatameku motoni (軍旗はためく下に) Kinji Fukasaku. Japanese veterans recall experiences to a war widow on quest to exonerate husband executed for desertion. 1972. Yugoslavia. Walter Defends Sarajevo. Valter brani Sarajevo (Валтер брани Сарајево) Hajrudin Krvavac.
The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1950) [ 1 ] Occupation. Painter. Known for. Expressionist paintings. Spouse. Janet Neiman (née Byrne) [ 1 ] LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes ...
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings— Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [ 1 ] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
476.1996.1–32. Campbell's Soup Cans[ 1 ] (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans) [ 2 ] is a work of art produced between November 1961 and June 1962 [ 3 ][ 4 ] by the American artist Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in width and each consisting of a ...