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As the most famous Japanese print, [21] The Great Wave off Kanagawa influenced great works: in painting, works by Claude Monet; in music, [24] Claude Debussy's La Mer; and in literature, Rainer Maria Rilke's Der Berg. [21] [69] Claude Debussy, who loved the sea and painted images of the Far East, kept a copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa in ...
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 February 1963 - 4 March 1963 ; Mona Lisa Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, 20 April 1974 - 10 June 1974 ; References: A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: from the Renaissance to the Present Day, 22 ; The Most Famous Paintings of the World, 7
His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612 . JH1731 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh , Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731. See also F1540 The Starry Night (drawing, same composition) and the preliminary studies F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village and F1730 Landscape with Cypresses (Hulsker p. 396).
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [1] He started creating sculptures and mixed media works in 1979. In 1980, he abandoned his graffiti tag SAMO and focused on his career as a painter. The first painting he sold, Cadillac Moon (1981), was purchased by singer Debbie Harry for
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889.It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
Repin began working on the painting in Moscow. [1] A first overall sketch, with the character of the Tsar turned to his right, dates from 1882. The idea of the painting, according to Repin, is linked to his confrontation with the themes of violence, revenge and blood during the political events of 1881; additional sources of inspiration were the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the ...