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Hawaiian woman weaving lauhala mat with rolls of prepared leaves called kūkaʻa [5] German stars made from lauhala in Puna, Hawaiʻi. Many Pacific cultures weave, plait, or braid the leaves of the P. tectorius to create useful items such as baskets, mats and hats. Though it is a long and arduous process to prepare the leaves for weaving, the ...
Crucifixion by Orcagna, c. 1365, with very elaborate tooling.Fragments from an altarpiece, in a 19th-century rearrangement. Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour.
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (French: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) is a 1932 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades. It sold at auction for US$106.5 million, the third highest ...
Art Nouveau and Gothic Revival acanthus designed as a bronze element of a stained glass window of Bijouterie Fouquet in Paris, by Alphonse Mucha, c.1900, charcoal drawing, Musée Carnavalet, Paris Art Nouveau corbels with Byzantine Revival acanthuses on the portico monumental Jules-Félix Coutan in the Félix-Desruelles Square , Paris, by Jules ...
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and brown. [1]
A leaf (pl.: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, [1] usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis.Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", [2] [3] while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. [4]
Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) is a collage by Henri Matisse.The medium is gouache and cut paper on paper. It is in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health, and by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts.
Leaf carving is an artwork involving the delicate trimming of leaves to develop a picture or landscape. [1] [2] The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully cut the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.