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Detail from a painting by Bernard Picart. Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. In 1578, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in ...
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972.It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), [1] and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.
The Swimming Hole (also known as Swimming and The Old Swimming Hole) is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
The rock shelter and rock art were discovered in October 1933 by the Hungarian explorer László Almásy.It contains Neolithic pictographs (rock painting images) and is named due to the depictions of people with their limbs bent as if they were swimming.
Category for the history of swimming. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. C. Swimming controversies (8 P) D.
In the early 1900s, Matisse established himself as a leader of the Fauvism art movement. [1] Fauvism emphasised a strong use of color and painterly qualities, as opposed to realistic representations found in Impressionist art. In 1912, Matisse visited Tangier, Morocco, where he noted how the locals would be fascinated by goldfish swimming in ...
The new book 'Swimming Pretty' traces an art form and a sport to its inception, back when women were discouraged from swimming for modesty's sake. Synchronized swimming is even more impressive ...
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.