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Detail of the dog Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Wedding (1434). Generally, dogs symbolize faith and loyalty. [11] A dog, when included in an allegorical painting, portrays the attribute of fidelity personified. [12] In a portrait of a married couple, a dog placed in a woman's lap or at her feet can represent marital fidelity.
Diana Thorne's Dog-Basket, A Series of Etchings (1930) [7] [8] Your Dogs and Mine (1932) [9] [10] ABC of Dogs (1938) Around the World with Children and Dogs (1940) [11] Drawing Dogs (1940) [12] Dogs: An Album of Drawings (1944) [13] [14] Cats and More Cats (1945) [15] Cats, in Prose and Verse (1947) [16] How to Draw the Dog: A Technical ...
A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios, "done extempore" [1] [2] [3]) is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work. [4] A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a ...
Blue Period with Banjo, Polaroid ER print by William Wegman, 1980 Volcano by Wegman, 1988, acrylic and oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art. William Wegman (born December 2, 1943) is an American artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.
Portrait paintings of "men of culture" (wen ren hua) at that period reflects this dilemma. For instance, the Portrait of Yang Qian depicted him standing in a bamboo forest. While the bamboo symbolizes his moral rightness, the half-enclosed and half-opened space in the background alludes to his potential of choosing between reclusion and serve ...
Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings. Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits.
The Portrait of Charles V with a Dog is a portrait by Titian of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with a hunting dog, created in 1533. It passed from Charles to the Spanish royal collection , from which it came to the Museo del Prado , in Madrid .
The paintings by Snyders and his workshop alone typically lack humans, except in kitchen scenes, and usually show a number of animals of different species (or breeds of dog). There are about equal numbers of paintings of dead animals, usually in a kitchen setting or as hunting trophies in a landscape, and of live ones, often in ferocious combat.