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The cheval comes from the French: cheval, "horse". Different explanations are given for the reason of its use: "horse" is a name for the adjustment pulley; [1] [2] cheval in a meaning of support framework (cf. French: chevalet, "easel"); [4] overall bulkiness and heavy weight; [5] large mirror size that allowed a horse to be seen in its ...
Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self–Representation," April 9–28 June 1998, unnumbered cat. (pl.3). Miami Art Museum. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self–Representation," September 18–29 November 1998, unnumbered cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
La Femme au Cheval is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 162 × 130.5 cm (63.8 × 51.4 in). As the title indicates the painting represents a woman and a horse. The rather elegant woman wearing only a pearl necklace and the horse are immersed in a landscape with trees and a window (in the 'background'), a vase, with fruits and vegetation (in the 'foreground') clearly taken from the ...
Each image was in turn reflected to another mirror, which reflected it through a focusing lens towards a movable mirror. The movable mirror could be adjusted to project the moving characters at the desired place within an immobile background image on the screen. The background was projected with a second magic lantern from a painted glass plate.
Muybridge published his photos in 1879 and received some public attention. Marey hoped to merge anatomy and physiology. To better understand his chronophotographic images, he compared them with images of the anatomy, skeleton, joints, and muscles of the same species. Marey produced a series of drawings showing a horse trotting and galloping ...
The Chicago Picasso, 1967 In 1964, Pablo Picasso approved the construction of one of his sculptures, depicting his wife Jacqueline, to be erected in Kristinehamn (Sweden) at Strandudden by lake Vänern. Carl Nesjar was commissioned to carry out the construction. The Picasso sculpture in Kristinehamn Sweden was inaugurated in 1965, is 15 meters high, and is the largest Picasso sculpture in the ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Image online [33] To My Betrothed: 1911: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Image online [34] Interior II: 1911: Private collection I and the Village [35] 1911: New York, Museum of Modern Art: The Father [36] 1911: Paris, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme: Image online [37] Othello and Desdemona: 1911: Private ...
Detaille was born in Paris and grew up in Picardy.His was a prosperous military family; his grandfather had been an arms supplier for Napoleon. An amateur artist who was friends with a number of collectors and painters, including Horace Vernet, Detaille's father encouraged his son's artistic endeavors.