An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio by Giovanni Bellini https://www.nga.gov/artworks/41589-episode-life-publius-cornelius-scipio
One man is half again as tall as anyone else.
Meintest du essen?
One man is half again as tall as anyone else.
Symbols are things that stand for something else.
Degas exhibited only one sculpture during his lifetime, the wax Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , at the Sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881 (that statuette is now in the National Gallery of Art). Many critics reacted with shock to its subject, which they found harshly realistic and even ugly, and to its unconventional incorporation of actual, rather than sculpturally imitated, fabric and hair.
figures on makeshift armatures reinforced with brush handles, matches, or whatever else
In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming called Yellowstone—rumored to contain steam-spewing geysers, boiling hot springs, and bubbling mud pots.
conjuring instead an imagined scene of a pre-industrial West that neither he nor anyone else
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art—form—by analyzing the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures. Students will then experiment with line in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.
Metal, stone, wood, plastic, clay, marble, or something else?
the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else
Great art shifts your way of seeing the world. When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to the intensity of Mark Rothko’s painting.
That’s something else that you don’t get looking at it online, is what is it like
Pach once wrote that “modern art in America owes more to [Davies] than to anyone else
As the presence of humans changes the Sonoran Desert, photographers capture the impact on the saguaro cactus.
But the title gives it away as something else: Maricopa County, Carefree Highway
What else does Siqueiros tell you about himself in this self-portrait?