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American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.
Man and Woman is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1921 by the French artist Fernand Léger. The painting is a cubist portrait of a man and a woman locked in a passionate embrace at odds with their depersonalized, industrialized setting. The painting is held by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States. [1]
Two women teaching a child with a drop hat to walk, similar composition, same period 'Interior with a Man Reading a Letter and a Woman Sewing' shows pre-eminently De Hooch's fascination of the period for the subtle transitions between light and dark, especially for the contrast between delicate incoming sunlight and shadows.
A Man and A Woman is the title sometimes used for a pair of oil and egg tempera on oak panel [1] paintings attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, completed c. 1435. Although usually considered pendants or companion pieces, they may also have been wings of a since dismantled diptych . [ 2 ]
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, Alte Nationalgalerie, c. 1824. 34 x 44 cm Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1825–1830. 34.9 x 43.8 cm. Two Men Contemplating the Moon (German: Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes) and Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon are a series of similar paintings by Caspar David ...
Man Writing a Letter is a companion piece to Woman Reading a Letter, in which the woman has received the young man's letter and is reading it intently. Metsu likely got the idea for a pair of themed paintings from Gerard ter Borch, who had painted a similar pair: Man Writing a Letter and A Woman Sealing a Letter. [1]
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"The drawing is good, and the man's figure displays much power. A very agreeable composition." [142] [144] ———— Interior. A man and woman, seated on a chair, are playing the same harp together; she is seated on his lap, the lower part of her person entirely naked, two feathers in her head; they are copulating.