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2. John Virtue - Wikipedia

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   Virtue uses only black and white on his work as he sees colour as "unnecessary distraction". [6] He uses shellac black ink and white paint.. He is well known for his "London Paintings" which were displayed in The National Gallery and focused on the London skyline, using easily distinguishable landmarks from the capital such as the Gherkin, the NatWest Tower and St. Paul's Cathedral, to ...

3. Dove (Picasso) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Monolith, the Face of Half Dome - Wikipedia

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   Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1927 that depicts the western face of Half Dome in Yosemite, California. In the foreground of the photo, viewers are able to see the texture and detail of the rock as well as the background landscape of pine trees and the ...

5. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings - Wikipedia

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   Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Whistler's Mother , by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Portrait of a Young Girl , by Petrus Christus

6. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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   Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...

7. The Starry Night - Wikipedia

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   Van Gogh was speaking of three paintings, one of which was The Starry Night, when he made this comment: "The olive trees with white cloud and background of mountains, as well as the Moonrise and the Night effect," as he called it, "these are exaggerations from the point of view of the arrangement, their lines are contorted like those of the ...