Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline.

Art historians and theorists such as Cesare Brandi have also played a significant role in developing conservation-restoration theory.

" Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, a " reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide.

Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images.

It is perhaps no accident that the factuality of the Italian Renaissance has been most vigorously questioned by those who are not obliged to take a professional interest in the aesthetic aspects of civilization — historians of economic and social developments, political and religious situations, and, most particularly, natural science — but only exceptionally by students of literature and hardly ever by historians of Art.

Art historians Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener suggest that in The Ambassadors " Sciences and arts, objects of luxury and glory, are measured against the grandeur of Death ".

Art historians such as Gottfried Richter in the 1920s identified the Roman architectural innovation as being the Triumphal Arch.

Art historians have explored the painting's racial, sexual, and social motives in the context of American society at the time.

Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd ; Rutgers University Press ; ISBN 0-8135-2869-0 ( 2001 ).</ ref > Art historians have noted similarities between Ray's collage and painting techniques and styles used for tailoring.

Art historians have inserted Tages freely among them but entirely in a speculative fashion.

Art historians who specialize in the Italian Renaissance have found a Neoplatonic interpretation, which was most clearly articulated by Ernst Gombrich, to be the most enduring way to understand the painting.

Art historians classify illuminated manuscripts into their historic periods and types, including ( but not limited to ) Late Antique, Insular, Carolingian manuscripts, Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque manuscripts, Gothic manuscripts, and Renaissance manuscripts.

Some date the start to earlier events in the 1930s: The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide's regular publication The Golden Age Quarterly lists comic books from 1933 onwards ( 1933 saw the publication of the first comic book in the size that would subsequently define the format ); some historians, including Roger Sabin ( in Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: a History of Comic Art ), date it to the publication of the first comic books featuring entirely original stories rather than re-prints of comic strips from newspapers ( 1935 ), by the company that would become DC Comics.

Art historians, curators, and collectors view working proofs as especially desirable because of their rarity, the insight they may give into the progress of the work, and because they may well have belonged to the artist.

Art historians of Thailand claim that it was cast in the 14th century in Thailand only.

Art historians have revelled in the extraordinary diversity of contemporary and ancient sources that Mino marshaled in these tombs, which distinguish him from other sculptors active in mid quattrocento Florence ( Zuraw 1998 ).

Art historians classify its products into two types:

Art historians have long been keen to trace the beginnings of the Northern Renaissance-with far less evidence to go on than in Italy.

Art historians attempt to classify medieval art into major periods and styles, often with some difficulty.

Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally divide it in several large-scale phases, styles or periods.

Art historians are once again taking an interest in Day, and there are now significant academic texts on Day's homoerotic portraiture, and its similarities to the work of Walter Pater and Thomas Eakins.

Art historians have dated the caves in the range of late 5th to late 8th century AD.

Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation.

Some scholars believe that, because the only evidence for the " courts of love " is Andreas Capellanus ’ s book The Art of Courtly Love, they probably never existed ; to further strengthen their argument, they say that there is also no evidence that Marie ever stayed with her mother in Poitiers, beyond her name being mentioned in Andreas ’ s work.

Among those who do believe in it, there are a variety of different views as to what magic is, but many Pagans adhere to the definition of magic provided by the founder of Thelema, Aleister Crowley, who defined it as " the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

A track on the 2009 Art Brut album Art Brut vs. Satan called ' The Replacements ' features lyrics such as " I can't believe I've only just discovered The Replacements, how have I only just discovered The Replacements?

" Here's something new .... " pianist Hank Jones remembers thinking when he first heard Art Tatum on radio in 1935, " .... they have devised this trick to make people believe that one man is playing the piano, when I know at least three people are playing.

His 1995 novel Slow Death fictionalises and ridicules this process of the historification of Neoism ( including the planting of archives at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; this recently became reality when Home sold the V & A his own archive documenting twenty years of his art and underground activities including those involving Neoism ) as if to give his own game away but, typically with Home, as soon as one agenda has, apparently, been exposed, whether Home's own or one at large, the game moves on so that he constantly forces readers into a position of ' Should I believe any of this?

KrahnMask | Mask from the Krahn peoples currently on exhibit at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. According to the Wee of Côte d ' Ivoire, it is also believed that the natural world is made up of spirits, referred to as “ bush spirits .” These spirits are part of the world untouched by man, and the Wee believe that keeping these spirits appeased is vital to the health of the tribe.

Art historians from Bristol University have found what they believe is a picture of Henry Wriothesley which was painted over in the sixteenth century.

In the article Citroen's design chief, Art Blakeslee, explained the appearance of the car, saying " I believe the XM is a modern and dynamic shape, with unique styling elements such as the very long, low hood, the extensive use of glass and the kick-up in the belt line.

After hours of digging and finding nothing incriminating, Ray and Art enter the house, where they discover what they believe to be a crematorium.

Thousands of Neurons clung and piled up together are just like the Mail Art network, I believe.

Art historians point to numerous paintings of female virgin saints similarly dressed, and believe that this look was fashionable for women's dresses at the time.

Art therapist are only allowed to release confidential information if they have explicit written consent by the patient or if the therapist has reason to believe the patient needs immediate help to address a severe danger to the patients life.

But it ’ s not so important that narratives represent lives accurately – only, as Art ( Arthur Bochner ) argues, ‘ that narrators believe they are doing so ’ ( Bochner, 2002, p. 86 ).

* Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work

* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.

* Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work

File: Jacques-Louis_David_017. jpg | Full length portrait of Napoleon standing | Napoleon in His Study ( 1812 ), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso ’ s works of this period, also represented in The Blindman ’ s Meal ( 1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) and in the portrait of Celestina ( 1903 ).

In dire financial straits following the war, the Liechtenstein dynasty often resorted to selling family artistic treasures, including for instance the portrait " Ginevra de ' Benci " by Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased by the National Gallery of Art of the United States in 1967.

* Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work

* Art Directors Club bio and portrait of Herbert Bayer

In 1650 in Rome Velázquez also painted a portrait of Juan de Pareja, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA.

On November 11, 2006 the Board of Trustees at Thomas Jefferson University agreed to sell The Gross Clinic to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas for a record $ 68, 000, 000, the highest price for an Eakins painting as well as a record price for an individual American-made portrait.

Detail of a portrait within its mummy wrappings, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He became close friends with many of his contemporaries, including Modigliani, who painted a portrait of him in 1916 ( in the collection of the Musée d ' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ).

The first Archibald Prize was awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1921, to WB McInnes, for his portrait of Desbrowe Annear.

In addition, many works, especially in the 1930s, prominently feature hands, which could be interpreted as another heroic symbol of proletarian strength through work: his self portrait in prison ( El Coronelazo, 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City ), Our Present Image ( 1947, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico ), New Democracy ( 1944, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ), and even his series on working class women, such as The Sob.

* Art Directors Club biography and portrait

Gallery versions of Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle ( 2006 ) were purchased by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Self portrait, 1895, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

It is administered by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for " the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the date fixed by the trustees for sending in the pictures.

He had also sent back some of his own works, including a portrait ( 1623 ) of himself with Endymion Porter, one of Charles's agents, a mythology ( Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, now in the Baltimore Museum of Art ), and a religious work for the Queen.

His second Archibald win, Art, Life and the other thing, again shows his willingness to experiment with different media such as photography and collage, and his respect for art history, including an image of the famous 1943 William Dobell portrait of Joshua Smith, which won a court case against people who claimed it was a caricature, not a portrait.