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1953. Type. Paper-cut. Dimensions. 13.84 cm × 10.33 cm (5.4 in × 4.1 in) Location. New York, Museum of Modern Art. The Boat (French: Le Bateau) is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life.
A Bateau Mouche on the Seine near Pont Neuf Bateau Mouche seats. Bateaux Mouches (French pronunciation: [bato muʃ]) are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the city from along the river Seine. [1] They also operate on Parisian canals such as Canal Saint-Martin, which is partially subterranean.
Aerial landscape art – Visual art depicting the appearance of a landscape as viewed from an aircraft or spacecraft. 🔝, a symbol to show the top side of an object. Denny Dent, an artist who sometimes painted upside-down portraits on stage before turning the canvas right-side-up for the audience.
Pirogue. Group of pirogues at sunset on the river bank of Don Tati, Si Phan Don, Laos. A pirogue (/ pɪˈroʊɡ / or / ˈpiːroʊɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which comes from the Carib piraua.
A xebec (/ ˈziːbɛk / or / zɪˈbɛk /), also spelled zebec, was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast. The term can also refer to a small, fast vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea.
Barque. A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a 100-line verse- poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [ 1 ] It is considered a masterpiece of French Symbolism.
Bateau. A bateau or batteau is a shallow- draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the ...