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A webcomic illustrating how inspiration may vary over time. Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning "to breathe into") is an unconscious burst of creativity in a literary, musical, or visual art and other artistic endeavours. The concept has origins in both Hellenism and Hebraism. The Greeks believed that inspiration or "enthusiasm" came ...
Muse (person) A muse is a person who provides creative inspiration to a person of the arts (such as a writer, artist, composer, and so on) or sometimes in the sciences. In the course of history, these have usually (but not necessarily) been women. The term is derived from the Muses, ancient Greek goddesses of inspiration.
Bharat Mata is a work painted by the Indian painter Abanindranath Tagore in 1905. However, the painting was first painted by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the 1870s. The work depicts a saffron-clad woman, dressed like a sadhvi, holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth, and a rudraksha garland (mala) in her four hands.
Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper, out of which two hands rise, in the paradoxical act of drawing one another into existence. This is one of the most obvious examples of Escher's common use of paradox. It is referenced in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by ...
John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850 (Private collection, UK) Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, to John Baptist Tenniel, a fencing and dancing master of Huguenot descent, [4][5] and Eliza Maria Tenniel. Tenniel had five siblings; two brothers and three sisters. One sister, Mary, was later to marry Thomas Goodwin Green ...
Christine Nguyen was born in Mountainview, California, USA to Vietnamese parents. [1] Her father was a commercial fisherman, and as a result she spent a lot of time around the sea, gaining artistic inspiration from the things she saw him pull up. [2]
Occupation (s) Illustrator and artist. Awards. ADC Young Guns 15. Website. www.hattiestewart.com. Hattie Stewart. Hattie Stewart is an illustrator and artist. She is best known for a technique called 'doodle-bombs', where she illustrates over magazine covers,newspapers and photos.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1960s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all ...