Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.

For Weird Tales ( November 1950 ), Freas did his first fantasy magazine cover, illustrating H. Russell Wakefield's " The Third Shadow " with his painting " The Piper ".

He was a participant in one of the all-time great literary hoaxes, I, Libertine ( Ballantine Books, 1956 ), along with Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine and Theodore Sturgeon, incorporating several hidden jokes and references into his cover painting for that book.

* 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

The band Fleet Foxes used the proverb painting Netherlandish Proverbs for the cover of their eponymous album Fleet Foxes.

The album cover featured The Raft of the Medusa, with the faces of the characters in Théodore Géricault's painting replaced with those of the band members.

* May 20 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

Said was mainly concerned with literature in the widest sense, especially French literature, and did not cover visual art and Orientalist painting, though others, notably Linda Nochlin, have tried to extend his analysis to art, " with uneven results ".

With Forsythe's help, he submitted his first successful cover painting to the Post in 1916, Mother's Day Off ( published on May 20 ).

His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 321 cover paintings.

Rockwell had donated the painting depicted on the cover of the November 3, 1945 Saturday Evening Post to the store in 1948.

The illustration on the cover of the book is a 1913 painting by Liubov Popova titled " Composition with Figures " and belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

One example of this experimentation is seen in Mati Klarwein's painting Annunciation, which was used as the cover art for Santana's Abraxas ( 1970 ).

The curricula cover a comprehensive course of drawing, painting, wood carving, embroidery, and carving of statues.

The interview appeared in the issue of 14 July 1990, whose cover showed a cartoon by Nicholas Garland, of Ridley painting onto a poster of Kohl a crude comb-over and a Hitler moustache.

The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).

Patchen first started painting in 1942 to make cover illustrations for his book The Dark Kingdom.

A painting of a scene from a 1936 story of Mickey, Donald and Goofy investigating an alleged haunted house was used as the cover of Gladstone Album # 26 ( 1989 ) which reprinted the story ( titled " The Seven Ghosts ").

A painting of the band by " Patrick " ( John Byrne ) was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover.

* Black metal band Bathory used Arbo's painting of " The Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1988 album Blood Fire Death.

* Viking metal band Falkenbach used Heine's painting of " Wodan's Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1996 album, ... En Their Medh Riki Fara ....

Beck's painting inspired by Carl Barks ' unused cover sketch for the story " The Mines of King Solomon " ( Uncle Scrooge # 19, Sept .- Nov. 1957 ) was used as the cover when the story was reprinted in Gladstone Comic Album # 1 ( 1987 ).

It is beyond the province of this epilogue to cover policy questions of such depth and range.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cover into -- ( 1 )

A 10-gallon garbage can, with a tightly fitting cover, could be used to keep the wastes until it is safe to leave the shelter.

An architect's sketch of the new plant is shown on the front cover.

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

This costs from $.75 to $2.30/mbf, but the cover can pay off if the lumber is to be stored in the open.

The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.

But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

In fact, once the size is big enough to cover a whole wall, it turns into nothing more than extremely expensive wallpaper.

The polyethylene cover reduced the oxygen transfer rate by 10 per cent, indicating that the maximum oxygen transfer is at the rotor rather than through the surface.

The tiger salamander ( Ambystoma tigrinum ) is typical of the frogs and salamanders that hide under cover ready to ambush unwary invertebrates.

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

It is used with flucloxacillin in the combination antibiotic co-fluampicil for empiric treatment of cellulitis ; providing cover against Group A streptococcal infection whilst the flucloxacillin acts against the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

A golden cover, adorned with golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark.

Green Archaeoastronomy is named after the cover of the book Archaeoastronomy in the Old World.

His reserve in battle is designed to cover a retreat.

The ice cover is the main habitat for two larger animal species.

Because badminton players have to cover a short distance as quickly as possible, the purpose of many advanced strokes is to deceive the opponent, so that either he is tricked into believing that a different stroke is being played, or he is forced to delay his movement until he actually sees the shuttle's direction.