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Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
The Lazy Boy (1755) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Lazy Boy (French - Le Petit Paresseux) is a 1755 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. It depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.
Despite having many lost works and fewer than 25 attributed major works – including numerous unfinished works – he created some of the most influential paintings in the Western canon. [3] The Mona Lisa is his best known work and is the world's most famous individual painting.
In Leonardo's earliest paintings we see the remarkable attention given to the small landscapes of the background, with lakes and water, swathed in a misty light. In the larger of the Annunciation paintings is a town on the edge of a lake. Although distant, the mountains can be seen to be scored by vertical strata.
The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was created using a complex tracing and silkscreening process, using layers of colors of silkscreen ink on top of a background of acrylic polymer paint, applied to a 40-by-40-inch canvas. It is also one of Warhol's "piss paintings," meaning the colors were oxidized by evaporating urine. [11]
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 1877. [4] Her parents were Emma (née Jones) Warrick, an accomplished wig maker and beautician for upperclass white women, [5] and William H. Warrick, a successful barber and caterer.
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...