Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Unlike paintings, their sale was very rarely documented.

As it turns out, even the historians and expert researchers have been fooled and forced to reassess their conclusions over “ Cup ’ s ” paintings over the years.

Lastly and most importantly, the precision in mimicking Cuyp ’ s style by his follower Abraham van Calraet and their contentious signatures makes it all the more difficult to determine which paintings are genuinely that of Cuyp and which ones are actually accurate reproductions in his style.

Some of the stories included in Saint Anthony's biography are perpetuated now mostly in paintings, where they give an opportunity for artists to depict their more lurid or bizarre interpretations.

In 1863 almost all of the group ’ s paintings were rejected by the Salon, and French Emperor Napoleon III instead decided to place their paintings in a separate exhibit hall, the Salon des Refusés.

* The Biology of Art ( 1963 ) – a look at the paintings of primates and their relation to human art

In summing up the painting's impact, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: " Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings — regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value — have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer.

Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had found their way back to Norway through purchase by collectors ( the other eleven were never recovered ), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.

" Many of his paintings, including The Scream, have universal appeal in addition to their highly personal meaning.

The United States Department of the Treasury toured Rockwell ’ s Four Freedoms paintings around the country after their publication in 1943.

The frescoes in Dogra / Pahari style paintings exist in their unique form at Sheesh Mahal of Ramnagar ( 105 km from Jammu and 35 km west of Udhampur ).

These rooms are decorated in fine woods as their names imply, and also house a selection of fine paintings.

A characteristic note is that Brood's paintings were already targeted often by vandals during his life, while after his death they were stolen for their value.

Prehistoric men may have painted animals to " catch " their soul or spirit in order to hunt them more easily or the paintings may represent an animistic vision and homage to surrounding nature, or they may be the result of a basic need of expression that is innate to human beings, or they could have been for the transmission of practical information.

This was in part driven by the changing audience for ambitious paintings, which now increasingly made their reputation in public exhibitions rather than by impressing the owners of and visitors to palaces and public buildings.

His paintings from this period are nonetheless valued by collectors not only because they are by Hergé but also for their intrinsic qualities.

Utilizing social commentary as a " springboard to deeper truths about the individual ", Basquiat's paintings also attacked power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.

His paintings of birds are set true-to-life in their natural habitat.

Maroger claimed to have introduced to the modern day artist what the masters achieved centuries before in their paintings, a way to ensure permanence and color quality in oils without sacrificing fluid and subtle paint handling.

He died in 1656 in The Hague, still unbelievably 18, 000 guilders in debt, forcing his widow to sell their remaining furniture and paintings.

In 1949, it entrusted 2130 remaining unclaimed pieces ( including 1001 paintings ) to the Direction des Musées de France in order to keep them under appropriate conditions of conservation until their restitution and meanwhile classified them as MNRs ( Musees Nationaux Recuperation or, in English, the National Museums of Recovered Artwork ).

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

Mr. Manuel whispered in the ears of the Sioux that the Cheyennes were comin' to raid 'em for their horses.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

The trees were crowded so closely together that their branches overlapped, virtually shutting out the sun completely.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

The Command offices were in the border country, up north, where the radar systems centralized their intelligence reports, and the fighters were dispatched to harry the enemy.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.