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Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.
Painted in black figure, this Panathenaic amphora depicts a stadion from Panathenaic games. Like other prize amphora, this amphora serves to emphasize athleticism and the victors of these events. Descriptions of women’s sport during Archaic Period mainly come from literary sources, and there are a few examples of female sporting events.
For images of such artwork see Commons and Category:Images from sports. ... Pages in category "Sports in art" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43] I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players) (c. 1590) by Ludovico Carracci; Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess) (1847) by Eugène Delacroix
World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021. [3] The books are typically around 200 pages, but heavily illustrated.
Athletes is a 1977 series of silkscreen portraits by American artist Andy Warhol.Commissioned by Richard Weisman, the series consists of ten multi-colored portraits of the most celebrated athletes of the time: Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chris Evert, Rod Gilbert, O.J. Simpson, Pelé, Tom Seaver, Willie Shoemaker, Dorothy Hamill, and Jack Nicklaus.
The picture juxtaposes the similarities between the soft oval white face of the model, as if she were a living mask, with the shiny black mask, also with eyes closed and a serene expression. [4] It also expresses the artist's interest in African art, which had a huge influence in the artistic movements of the first decades of the 20th century. [5]
Through her work, she attempted to combine Western and Chinese art while simultaneously paying homage to Chinese traditional art. [9] Irene Chou was the Hong Kong representative for the United Nation's Women's Liberation. [10] After the death of her mentor Lui Shou-Kwan in 1975 and her husband in 1978, the style of Chou's work changed ...