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paintings and Still
Simple, even stark, paintings of common household items ( Still Life with a Smoker's Box ) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in an unsentimental manner ( Boy with a Top ) nevertheless found an appreciative audience in his time, and account for his timeless appeal.
Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases.
Most pieces came from the Guggenheim's permanent collection, but the museum also acquired paintings by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and commissioned new works by Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra.
Still ’ s deeply abstract paintings would be of considerable influence on Rothko ’ s later works.
Still wrote to Rothko to request the paintings he had given Rothko over the years.
Still was also considered one of the foremost Color Field painters-his non-figurative paintings are non-objective, and largely concerned with juxtaposing different colors and surfaces in a variety of formations.
During his lifetime, Still sold only about 150 paintings.
Each of these museums has a gallery dedicated solely to Still paintings.
In addition, Still paintings are in the collections of many major museums.
Still more recently, Frank Auerbach has used such heavy impasto that some of his paintings become almost three-dimensional.
Still, the influence of Sesshū is evident in many of Tōhaku's mid to late works, such as his famous, which were declared a national treasure of Japan are argued to be the first paintings of their scale to depict only pine trees as subject matter.
Albert Herter's paintings include Young Girl, Garden of the Hesperides, and Still Life with Flowering Dogwood and Japanese Figurines ; he was commissioned to execute many portrait paintings and he created a number of civic and private murals.
Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted.
Still life paintings often adorn the interior of ancient Egyptian tombs.
Jacopo de ’ Barbari went a step further with his Still Life with Partridge, Iron Gloves, and Crossbow Arrows ( 1504 ), among the earliest signed and dated trompe-l ' œil still life paintings, which contains minimal religious content.
Still, the art is gaining a broader appreciation by the public at large, and whereas academic paintings once would only fetch a few hundreds of dollars in auctions, some now fetch millions.
These include Still life paintings of small everyday objects like bricks, portraits and self portraits whose subjects are dressed as if from some other time and place, and large paintings, allegorical in nature that present a sense of the apocalyptic and again reference another time.
Still life arrangements, unpopulated landscapes and photographs of paintings were the typical subject matter, but a few examples of color portraiture were also offered.
Landseer was particularly associated with Scotland, which he had first visited in 1824, and the Highlands in particular, which provided the subjects ( both human and animal ) for many of his important paintings, including his early successes The Hunting of Chevy Chase ( 1825 – 6 ) and An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Highlands ( 1826 – 9 ), and his more mature achievements such as the majestic stag study Monarch of the Glen ( 1851 ) and Rent Day in the Wilderness ( 1855 – 68 ).
It had been recognized that the paintings of Josef Albers, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell were all very different yet the symbolic content was achieved " through dramatic statement of isolated and highly simplified elements.
Still was considered one of the foremost Color Field painters – his non-figurative paintings are largely concerned with the juxtaposition of different colors and surfaces.
It initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and several series of paintings by Joan Miró.

paintings and Life
During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched out most of the ideas that would comprise his major work, The Frieze of Life, first designed for book illustration but later expressed in paintings.
He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.
The central tier of the walls has two cycles of paintings, which complement each other, The Life of Moses and The Life of Christ.
Rockwell's paintings were featured on Life ’ s cover 28 times between 1917 and 1924.
Zurbarán is also represented by a collection of works including Saint Elizabeth of Portugal and two paintings from the series on " The Life of Saint Pedro Nolasco " from the Cloister of the Merced Calzada in Seville.
The supposed moment in which they were spoken was a popular subject for paintings in cycles of the Life of Christ and as single subjects, for which the phrase is the usual title.
* December-Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.
Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's famous series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, ( the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York ) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley ( two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts ).
He at one time had the largest private collection of the paintings of Charles Conder in the world and he is a notorious fan of the Flemish symbolist painter Jan Frans De Boever, relishing his role as ' President for Life ' of the De Boever Society.
Traditional models evolved for narrative paintings, including large cycles covering the events of the Life of Christ, the Life of the Virgin, parts of the Old Testament, and, increasingly, the lives of popular saints.
Poynter's old school, Brighton College held an exhibition of Poynter's paintings and drawings entitled ' Life at Arms Length ' in its Burstow Gallery in November – December 1995.
These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the " House of Life ", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.
In consequence most of his major works are conventional oil paintings, some of which were intended as studies for the House of Life.
On the walls are paintings over pastel by the artist Paula Rego ( 1935 ), representing the " Ciclo da Vida da Virgem Maria e da Paixão de Jesus Cristo " ( Circle of Life of the Virgin Mary and the Passion of Christ ).
Chamberlain also made abstract colour paintings from 1963, and from 1967 he made several films, such as " Wide Point " ( 1968 ) andThe Secret Life of Hernando Cortez ,” filmed in Mexico with Warhol regulars Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet.
Nikola Avramov will be remembered in the history of Bulgarian art for his exquisitely tangible Still Life paintings.
Charlotte Salomon began her extraordinary series of 769 paintings – entitled Life?

paintings and Death
The apparent class distinction in almost all of these paintings is completely neutralized by Death as the ultimate equalizer, so that a sociocritical element is subtly inherent to the whole genre.
Both Death Stars were depicted by a combination of complete and sectional models and matte paintings.
Constructed in 1408, it is the oldest covered bridge in Europe and features a series of medieval-style 17th Century plague paintings by Kaspar Meglinger titled Dance of Death.
The Museo del Prado has various Italian paintings from the 15th century, such as The Death of the Virgin by Mantegna, acquired for Philip IV, The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, and Scenes from the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti by Botticelli.
Also starting in Roman times is the tradition of the use of the skull in paintings as a symbol of mortality and earthly remains, often with the accompanying phrase Omnia mors aequat ( Death makes all equal ).
Some of his paintings that represent French soldiers in a more direct, less idealizing style, include Dog of the Regiment, Trumpeter's Horse, and Death of Poniatowski.
His art's anti-war sentiment found other forms of expression in a series of paintings from 1944 – 45, such as Death on the Beach, which depicts the desolation and loneliness of war.
Several English and American paintings including The Death of Major Pierson by John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 )— also painted within 2 years of the event — had established a precedent for a contemporary subject.
Death of Cook is the name of several paintings depicting the 1779 death of British explorer and European discoverer of the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook at Kealakekua Bay.
His interest in Hogarthian moral themes is evidenced in his paired paintings The Life and Death of Buckingham, depicting the dissolute life and sordid death of the Restoration rake.
At the World's Fair of 1889 in Paris he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Judgement of Paris, and Demon and Tamara.
His most notable paintings include a copy of Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) and a series of works covering the life of the Virgin Mary, painted from 1810 – 1820 for the choir of the church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse.
The origin of the peculiar form the allegory has taken has also been found in the dancing skeletons on late Roman sarcophagi and mural paintings at Cumae or Pompeii, and a false connection has been traced with " The Triumph of Death ", attributed to Orcagna, in the Campo Santo at Pisa.
For his art collection he acquired works from Italy, and also bought paintings from Benjamin West ( including his painting of The Death of General Wolfe ), Thomas Gainsborough, Richard Wilson and George Stubbs.
Huge oil paintings adorning the walls of St Jacques-sur-Caudenberg ; biblical scenes, such as The Daughter of Sion Reviled ( in the Brussels Gallery ), The Death of Judas, The Magi travelling to Bethlehem, Judiths Prayer, and The Drought in Judaea ; genre pictures, such as A Box in the Theatre at Budapest ( Brussels Gallery ), portraits of officials and of high society, Oriental scenes and, above all, pictures of exotic female figures and exotic life.
Pugh's fame as an artist grew in the 1970s following the print publication of two radio plays by Ivan Smith: Death of a Wombat and Dingo King, both works featured Pugh's drawings and paintings.

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