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The Green Stripe (also known as The Green Line or Madame Matisse) is an oil painting from 1905 by French artist Henri Matisse of his wife, Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. The title stems from the vertical green stripe down the middle of Madame Matisse's face, an artistic decision consistent with the techniques and values of Fauvism.
The Kenyan flag (Swahili: Bendera ya Kenya) is a tricolor of black, red, and green with two white fimbriations imposed, with a Masai shield and two crossed spears. It was officially adopted on 12 December 1963 after Kenya's independence, inspired by the pan-African tricolour.
The green stripe in the Irish flag also played a role. Traditionally, the green represents the Catholics of Ireland, the orange represents the Protestant population, and the white in the middle ...
Iran adopted a flag with green, white, and red stripes in the mid-19th century. [44] The flag has undergone changes since, but the three stripes remain. When the newly independent republic of Tajikistan changed its flag from its former Soviet version , it chose to use the same stripes in reverse order as a nod to its close cultural ties with ...
Asexual Pride Flag. According to Grand Rapids Pride Center, the asexual pride flag was created in 2010.Each stripe has a specific meaning on the flag. The black stripe represents asexuality, the ...
[17] [18] The colors from turquoise to green represent community, healing and joy; the white stripe in the middle is an iteration of Monica Helms' trans flag design and includes people who are transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming, or non-binary; and the colors blue through purple represent pure love, strength, and diversity.
Matisse painted the nude when a sculpture he was working on shattered. He later finished the sculpture which is entitled Reclining Nude I (Aurore).. Matisse shocked the French public at the 1907 Société des Artistes Indépendants when he exhibited Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra).
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...