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… painted in 1920 is of two nude females conversing in a landscape. Its condition is unusually fine, with strong boldly printed colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most probably sexuality and it incorporates…

… cultures and societies. A tattoo is the marking of the skin with punctures into which pigment is rubbed. The word originates from the Tahitian tattau meaning to mark. Kings and commoners, sailors and prisoners, tribesmen and sweethearts all have…

… reality that grows from one’s response to life. It improves our existence by enhancing, changing and perpetuating our cultural composition. “The great artist knows how to impose their particular illusion on the rest of mankind,” proclaimed Guy de Mauspas…

… there is a right or wrong answer to that question. I have heard on a couple of occasions that art is, “good for nothing,” I have also heard that art can express emotions that you are not willing to show with words. I believe that quote, “a picture…

… 30, 1853 in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. He was the eldest son of the Reverend Theodorus van Gogh (1822-1885) and Anna Cornelia Carbentus (1819-1907). At the age of 16 he started work at the Hague gallery of the French…

… in Moscow. Along with nine brothers and sisters, he was born the son of a wealthy manufacture who helped him financially with his future goals. His parents created an environment that was ideal for future hero of theater by creating an outside building…

… evolution of art over the span of centuries and the changing notion of the artist’s place in society can be seen in the comparison of two very different works by two different artists. Impressions of who the artist was and what they contributed…

… Study I,’ a painted, bronze sculpture of a fleshy middle-aged woman lying idly in the sun, is a great illustration of realism. The sculpture was hand modeled in bronze, then painted, clothed, and given hair. The finished effect is a lifelike rendering…

… Study I,’ a painted, bronze sculpture of a fleshy middle-aged woman lying idly in the sun, is a great illustration of realism. The sculpture was hand modeled in bronze, then painted, clothed, and given hair. The finished effect is a lifelike rendering…

… the world, also the only ones that still exist. They are also known as the Pyramids of Giza. It is very remarkable how the Egyptian builders built The Great Pyramids, and it is quit unbelievable knowing they did not have that many tools or technology…