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Detail from Seurat's Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism. Pointillism (/ ˈ p w æ̃ t ɪ l ɪ z əm /, also US: / ˈ p w ɑː n-ˌ ˈ p ɔɪ n-/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
The eye is a black cleft in the log and the ear what remains of a broken branch; his hair is a tangle of branches, accompanied on the back by a series of small leaves. His bare figure is animated only by the colors of lemon and orange, hanging on a branch from the man's chest, citrus being the only winter fruit in Italy. [2]
Still life with fruit a nest and a lizard: 1710: Private collection: New York City Flowers in a glass vase with a dragonfly, on a marble slab: 1710: B 407: Schloss Fasanerie: Eichenzell, Fulda Flowers in a glass vase on a marble slab: ca. 1710: 77.5 cm x 62.3 cm: 1899.1.26: The Wilson: Cheltenham Still life of fruits, animals and insects on a ...
A Tree of 40 Fruit fruiting in the artist's nursery. Each spring the tree's blossom is a mix of different shades of red, pink and white. [3] The tree of 40 fruits was originally conceived as an art project, and Sam Van Aken hoped that people would notice that the tree has different kinds of flower in spring and has different types of fruit in ...
By contrast, outsider art (art brut) denotes works from a similar context but which have only minimal contact with the mainstream art world. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. [4] Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. [5]
Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique Report Submitted to: Ambassador Jonathan Moore Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs
Fruit Dish and Glass (1912), by the French artist Georges Braque, is the first papier collé (pasted paper, colloquially known as collage). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Braque and Pablo Picasso made many other works in this medium, which is generally credited as a key turning point in Cubism .