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Along the center, the image is divided into complementary black (right) and white (left), or, as the title suggests, day and night. The birds of the image contradict the overall partition of black and white throughout the image, as the black birds are in the white part of the image, while the white birds are in the black part, each of them ...
Watch Meeting—Dec. 31st 1862—Waiting for the Hour is an 1863 painting by the US artist William Tolman Carlton. The location of the original painting is not known, but a different version, possibly a study, is displayed in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. Watch meetings originated as nighttime religious services of the Methodist Church.
Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger) Bouquet près de la fenêtre; The Boyhood of Raleigh; Bushel with ibex motifs
The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace. The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also became an iconographic image of the period, known as "The dove of peace". An example is housed in the collection of the Tate Gallery and MOMA. Since ...
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Study for the ceiling of the Louvre, 1953, gouache on paper, with a single bird on a yellow and blue background 20.4 by 13.6 centimetres (8.0 in × 5.4 in), Study for the ceiling of the Louvre, 1953, gouache on paper, with a single bird on a yellow background, 21 by 13.6 centimetres (8.3 in × 5.4 in) with two black birds outlined in yellow on ...
Its name is Indian, and signifies, in the Illini, "The Bird That Devours Men." The original Piasa Creek ran through the main ravine in downtown Alton, and was completely covered by huge drainage pipes around 1912. According to the story published by Russell, the creature depicted by the painting was a huge bird that lived in the cliffs.
Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica (1937) stands as a prominent example. Contemporary American painter Hugo Bastidas has become known for black-and-white paintings that imitate the effect of grisaille and often resemble black-and-white photographs. His medium- and large-scale paintings feature contrasting zones of high and low detail.