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  2. Blackface in contemporary art - Wikipedia

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    Olaf Breuning's 2009 series Black Images (color studies) feature female figures with bodies and faces painted black. [30] A 2001 photograph titled Primitives features four white men with smeared brown body and face makeup wearing grass skirts and holding sticks. [31] The 2000 video work "King" features "a parade of figures in blackface".

  3. List of avian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...

  4. Cuban trogon - Wikipedia

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    Cuban trogon A tocororo in Viñales Valley, Cuba Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Trogoniformes Family: Trogonidae Genus: Priotelus Species: P. temnurus Binomial name Priotelus temnurus (Temminck, 1825) The Cuban trogon or tocororo (Priotelus temnurus) is a species of bird in the ...

  5. Chiaroscuro - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Piasa - Wikipedia

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    Its name is Indian, and signifies, in the Illini, "The Bird That Devours Men." The original Piasa Creek ran through the main ravine in downtown Alton, and was completely covered by huge drainage pipes around 1912. According to the story published by Russell, the creature depicted by the painting was a huge bird that lived in the cliffs.

  7. Category:Birds in art - Wikipedia

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    Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger) Bouquet près de la fenêtre; The Boyhood of Raleigh; Bushel with ibex motifs

  8. Xantus's hummingbird - Wikipedia

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    Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip. Males have a golden green to emerald green crown, nape, and upperparts with rufous edging on the uppertail coverts. Their forehead and chin are black, their face mostly black with a wide white stripe behind the eye, and their throat iridescent emerald ...

  9. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.