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Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
Early fantasy writers like Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison [261] and James Branch Cabell [262] were familiar with Morris's romances. The Wood Beyond the World is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis 's Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris's reconstructions of early Germanic life in The House of the Wolfings and ...
Fashion theorist Alma Hernandez Hernandez Briseño analysed Voss alongside Bellmer La Poupée, arguing that these shows blurred the line between fantasy and reality. In Voss , the glass cube separating the models from the audience is a fictional space in which McQueen could explore transgressive notions of what beauty and fashion meant. [ 90 ]
Ukiyo-e [a] (浮世絵) is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
On this fragment from a sarcophagus used in the early 4th century, Cupid and a butterfly-winged Psyche frame a portrait of the deceased, carried on an eagle with a cornucopia and spilling basket of fruit [103] (Indianapolis Museum of Art) Eros and Psyche plaster medallion (1st century A.D.) [104] excavated in Begram, collections of National ...
He carefully studied the 17 canonical wallpaper groups and created periodic tilings with 43 drawings of different types of symmetry. [d] From this point on, he developed a mathematical approach to expressions of symmetry in his artworks using his own notation. Starting in 1937, he created woodcuts based on the 17 groups.
Burne-Jones with William Morris, 1874, by Frederick Hollyer. Born Edward Coley Burne Jones (the hyphenation of his last names was introduced later) was born in Birmingham, the son of a Welshman, Edward Richard Jones, a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates the painter's childhood.
The plots of the Touhou Project revolve around the strange phenomena that occur in the fictional realm of Gensokyo (幻想郷, Gensōkyō, literally Fantasy Village or Fantasy Land), which ZUN designed as a human village in some remote mountain recesses in Japan. Originally, it was simply called "a remote separated land of a human village in an ...