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The Rocket is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by Edward Middleton Manigault. It depicts a fireworks display over water, in the fall of 1909 on the Hudson River. The painting shows an intense, almost fauvist color palette. In the middle of a radiant circle of light reflecting on the water, a boat can be seen, filled with people viewing the ...
The Anguished Man. The Anguished Man is a painting created by an unknown artist. [1] [2] Owner Sean Robinson, from Cumbria, England, claims to have inherited the painting from his grandmother, who told him that the artist who created the painting had mixed his own blood into the paint and died by suicide soon after finishing the work.
The painting shows an old man sitting in a chair (or on his throne) with his feet on a cushion. He sits beside an open window. [9] Above the man's head there hangs a painting and a statue of Saint Arnolfus. Daylight enters the room through the open window. De Braekeleer worked out the small details very carefully in this oeuvre. [10]
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 ...
The painting depicts a grey-haired old man sitting on a chair in his sparsely furnished home, with a boy standing close before him between his spread legs holding the musical instrument. [21] Both are observing as the child carefully plucks the strings with one hand, while holding a chord with the other hand; the weight of the instrument is ...
"The Crying Boy" picture displayed in their living room stayed unmarked while pictures on either side of it had been completely consumed by the flames. On 25 October 1985 in Heswall , Merseyside , a pair of the paintings hanging in the living and dining rooms of a house belonging to the Amos family were found intact after a gas explosion ...
A 43-year-old man lit a firework on top of his head, resulting in his near-sudden death in San Antonio, police say. Officers in San Antonio were called to a residential area just after midnight on ...
Down on His Luck is an 1889 painting by the Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. It depicts a disheartened swagman, sitting by a campfire in the bush and sadly brooding over his misfortune. According to an 1889 review, "The face tells of hardships, keen and blighting in their influence, but there is a nonchalant and slightly cynical expression ...