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  2. Alejandro Obregón - Wikipedia

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    Cosas de aire (Air Things), created in 1970, was donated by The BBVA Bank of Colombia to the Museo de Arte Moderno de Barranquilla in 2008. It is an acrylic mural on mortar cement, measuring 16.5x9 meters, featuring bright and sweeping geometric patterns devoid of the brushstrokes that are typical of his work.

  3. Black Paintings - Wikipedia

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    He speculates that Goya's son Javier may have created the paintings, and Javier's son Mariano passed them off as the work of Goya for financial gain. Junquera's theory was rejected by Goya scholar Nigel Glendinning , who published an academic study defending the paintings' authenticity and later held a lecture in Madrid restating his conviction.

  4. Las Orquídeas National Natural Park - Wikipedia

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    Las Orquídeas National Natural Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Las Orquídeas or PNN Las Orquídeas) is a national park in the Cordillera Occidental, Colombia. ...

  5. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paints during the Renaissance period in the 15th century.. Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder.

  6. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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    Well-known Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning is known for saying "Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented". David Price is known as having used many of the best painting materials, and has experimented with most of the best brands, preferring Old Master materials and brands like Old Holland and Michael Harding, painting on traditional ...

  7. Orchid - Wikipedia

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    A Phalaenopsis flower. Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident derived characteristics or synapomorphies.Among these are: bilateral symmetry of the flower (zygomorphism), many resupinate flowers, a nearly always highly modified petal (labellum), fused stamens and carpels, and extremely small seeds.

  8. L'Origine du monde - Wikipedia

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    In October 2011, again, a complaint was lodged against Facebook with the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Paris court of general jurisdiction) by a French Facebook user after his profile was disabled for showing a picture of L'Origine du monde. The picture was a link to a television program aired on Arte about the history of the painting.

  9. Baroque painting - Wikipedia

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    Nativity by Josefa de Óbidos, 1669, National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon. The Council of Trent (1545–1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church answered many questions of internal reform raised by both Protestants and by those who had remained inside the Catholic Church, addressed the representational arts in a short and somewhat oblique passage in its decrees.