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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
[1] [7] She often went on expeditions along the Hudson River and in the mountains that combined hiking with sketching and painting. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] Finding women's dress of the era cumbersome and impractical, Barstow developed a hiking costume that included sturdy boots and shortened skirts paired with trousers (a combination advocated by the ...
Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]
Classical art [Note 2] is the art developed in ancient Greece and Rome, whose scientific, material and aesthetic advances contributed to the history of art a style based on nature and the human being, where harmony and balance, the rationality of forms and volumes, and a sense of imitation ("mimesis") of nature prevailed, laying the foundations ...
Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl.It is housed in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life.
The painting is a theme in the book Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, the title of that book being based on the title of the painting. In her song At the Frick Museum from the album Queens of the Summer Hotel, singer-songwriter Aimee Mann references Vermeer’s Girl Interrupted at Her Music. The lyrics describe the narrator encountering a ...
The earliest records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas can be found in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian - Biography of Dawan". [7] The author of the book was first clearly identified in "The table of the Classic Mountains and Seas" written by Liu Xiu in the Western Han dynasty.
The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto. Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term "figures" to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women who often return the viewer's gaze, and who are "realistically ...