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12.28.1884 (1.9.1885) ... deported twice for his political activity, and a leading figure of ... and became professor of sculpture at the Soviet state art ...
A typical museum label from the De Young Museum in San Francisco. A museum label is a label describing an object exhibited in a museum or one introducing a room or area. [1] [2] At a minimum, museum labels should identify the creator, title, date, location, and materials of the work, insofar as these can be known.
Label in a gallery indicating the object's accession number. In galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to, and achieving initial control of, each acquisition. Assignment of accession numbers typically occurs at the point of accessioning or cataloging.
Past Times is a 1997 painting by Kerry James Marshall.. It is made with acrylic paint with collage on canvas and measures 9 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. (289.6 × 396.2 cm). [1]It depicts African-Americans enjoying leisure activities including boating, croquet, and golf.
Figure painting may also refer to the activity of creating such a work. The human figure has been one of the contrast subjects of art since the first Stone Age cave paintings and has been reinterpreted in various styles throughout history. [103] Some artists well known for figure painting are Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, and Édouard Manet.
The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.
Life Underground (2001) is a permanent public artwork created by American sculptor Tom Otterness for the New York City Subway's 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station, which serves the A, C, E , and L trains.