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canvas · Accession ID 1975.98.1 Artwork Kenneth Noland, Poster Variation, hand-colored
Discover works by Kenneth Noland and learn about the artist
canvas · Accession ID 1975.98.1 Artwork Kenneth Noland, Poster Variation, hand-colored
In contrast to the man with whom she shares this outdoor scene, the female figure is incongruously naked. Her features seem generalized.
The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other.
In Kalf’s own hand the rind has a three-dimensional presence as it twists and turns
The Beast holds up a flaming sword with the right hand, to our left, and a flaming
Adriaen de Vries won international fame for active bronze figures that reflect both his study of nature and his training in Florence with Giovanni Bologna, the greatest 16th-century sculptor after Michelangelo. De Vries’s complicated poses continued the style known as mannerism, but he also saw ancient bronze sculpture as a model to surpass.
Empire, her head is encircled with a ring of laurel leaves, and she lifts her left hand
She holds his left hand with her left hand, both to our right, and her other arm
child stands with a delicate scepter tucked into one elbow as he holds up his other hand
The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
She holds a small brown leather book tooled with gold ornament in her right hand,
He holds the reins of his horse in his left hand, farther from us.
During the 1960s and 1970s the fate and future of painting was a hotly contested subject on the New York art scene. It is especially telling, then, that Alfred Jensen’s paintings were acclaimed during this period by two of the very artists—Donald Judd and Allan Kaprow—who were otherwise leading the assault on painting in favor of new art forms such as minimal sculpture and assemblage.
On the one hand, the painting demonstrates Jensen’s longstanding exploration of color