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No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is a 1954 Color Field painting by the Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. In November 2012, the painting sold for US$75.1 million (£47.2m) at a Sotheby's auction. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is a 1930 painting [1] by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist who was a leading figure in the Neo-Plasticism movement. It consists of thick, black brushwork, defining the borders of colored rectangles. As the title suggests, the only colors used in it besides black and white are red, blue, and yellow.
Neptune's atmosphere is faintly blue in the optical spectrum, only slightly more saturated than the blue of Uranus's atmosphere. Early renderings of the two planets greatly exaggerated Neptune's colour contrast "to better reveal the clouds, bands and winds", making it seem deep blue compared to Uranus's off-white.
The Great Dark Spot (also known as GDS-89, for Great Dark Spot, 1989) was one of a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe. Like Jupiter's spot, the Great Dark Spots are anticyclonic storms.
The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (or Birth of Venus) by Nicolas Poussin, painted in 1635 or 1636, is a painting housed in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [1] It is in oil on canvas (114,4 x 146,6 cm) and shows a group of figures in the sea near a beach, with putti flying over their heads.
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The subject of the painting is Andrea Doria, a Renaissance condottiero and admiral from Genoa, who was also the effective ruler of the city-state. [2] He was around sixty when the portrait was painted (the date is somewhat disputed); either way his physique hardly reflects his age at the time.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Daughters of Catulle Mendès: 1888: 61.9 cm × 129.9 cm (24.4 in × 51.1 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York [36] Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (French: Jeune fille au ruban bleu) 1888: 55 cm × 46 cm (22 in × 18 in) Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France Girl with Spikes