Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
56.7 cm × 76 cm (22.3 in × 30 in) Dove (French: La Colombe) is a 1949 lithograph on paper created by Pablo Picasso in 1949 in an edition of 50+5. The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace. The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also ...
The Painter Crucified. 1941 to 1942. Image online [ 169] Scene design for the Finale of the Ballet "Aleko" (Petersburg fantasy) 1942. New York, Museum of Modern Art. Image online [ 170] The Yellow Crucifixion. 1942.
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [ 1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [ 2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
Woman with Parakeet ( French: La Femme à la perruche) is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir created in 1871. It is in the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the Thannhauser Collection. [1] The painting portrays model Lise Tréhot, who posed for Renoir in over twenty paintings during the years 1866 to 1872.
In the adornment of hut holy images there can be traced certain affinity in decoration, weaving motifs, embroidery, ceramics, carving, wedding trunk painting, table paintings. [1] This proves the mutual influence of different types of folk art. Holy image painting of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia regions have the following ornamental elements: [1]
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. [ 1] He was notable for his extensive studies ...
The Rose Period ( Spanish: Período rosa) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1904 and 1906. It began when Picasso settled in Montmartre at the Bateau-Lavoir among bohemian poets and writers. Following his Blue Period – which depicted themes of poverty, loneliness, and despair in somber, blue tones ...
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 ...