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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art.
An artist's statement (or artist statement) is an artist's written description of their work. The brief text is for, and in support of, their own work to give the viewer understanding. As such it aims to inform, connect with an art context, and present the basis for the work; it is, therefore, didactic, descriptive, or reflective in nature.
The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...
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The mural didn’t immediately strike observers as an artwork by Wayne Thiebaud, who is renowned for his stilllifes of desserts. Famous artist created iconic mural just off Sacramento freeway. You ...
Hilda Belcher, The Checkered Dress, 1907, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.The painting is likely a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. [a]Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, [15] [16] in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model. Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986) worked at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris on the French Riviera, where Picasso made and painted ceramics. She became his lover, and then his second wife in 1961.
The art historian Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, writing for Encyclopædia Britannica, states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo ('cosmography of the microcosm'). He believed the workings of the human body to be an ...