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Naoshima (直島, Naoshima) is an island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea, part of Kagawa Prefecture. The island is best known for its many contemporary art installations and museums. The Town of Naoshima (直島町, Naoshima-chō) administers Naoshima and 26 smaller islands nearby. [1]
A drawing of Tortuga island from the 17th century. By 1640, the buccaneers of Tortuga were calling themselves the Brethren of the Coast. The buccaneers population was mostly made up of French and Englishmen, along with a small number of Dutchmen. In 1654, the Spanish attacked the island for the fourth and last time, defeating a Franco-English ...
Art In Island is housed within a two-storey building covering 3,800 square metres (41,000 sq ft). [3] Marketed as the "biggest 3D museum in Asia", exhibits are primarily murals which rely on optical illusions, which causes the two-dimensional works to be perceived as three-dimensional. Visitors are encouraged to photograph themselves to become ...
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
Oceanic art or Oceanian art comprises the creative works made by the native people of the Pacific Islands and Australia, including areas as far apart as Hawaii and Easter Island. Specifically it comprises the works of the two groups of people who settled the area, though during two different periods.
Archaeologists have determined that humans have been living in the Caribbean islands for nearly 6,000 years. [1] The first inhabitants were an ancient Arawak people who migrated from the lowland river basins of South America; since before European colonization, the islands had experienced several large migrations from the surrounding mainlands and within the archipelago. [1]
Public collections of Hawaiian art may be found at the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Hawaii State Art Museum and the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1967, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to implement a Percent for Art law. The Art in State Buildings Law established the Art in Public Places Program ...
Charcoal rock drawing at Carters rockpool on the Opihi River. Charcoal drawings can be found on limestone rock shelters in the centre of the South Island, with over 500 sites in the South Island [2] stretching from Kaikōura to North Otago including at the Takiroa Rock Art Shelter.