Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Before that, paintings had been primarily of religious scenes or of human beings.

* Art show-presenting paintings, drawings, sculpture and other work, primarily on science fiction and fantasy themes

Composition IV and later paintings are primarily concerned with evoking a spiritual resonance in viewer and artist.

from the visual arts, primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculpture.

He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.

Although these late paintings appear to be ' impressionistic ' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena.

The permanent collection of the foundation is based primarily on nine private collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim ’ s collection of non-objective paintings ; Karl Nierendorf ’ s collection of German expressionism and early abstract expressionism ; Katherine S. Dreier's gift of paintings and sculptures ; Peggy Guggenheim ’ s collection, concentrating on abstraction and surrealism ; Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser ’ s collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern masterpieces ; part of Hilla von Rebay's collection ; Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's holdings of American minimalist, post-minimalist, environmental and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s ; a collection of photographs and mixed media from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ; and the Bohen Foundation's collection of film, video, photography and new media.

Many of his paintings of this period contrast barbaric scenes of violence with those of civilized passivity, with imagery drawn primarily from Aeschylus ’ Oresteia trilogy.

Marie Vassilieff's own artwork is primarily in the Cubist style, her most interesting paintings are portraits of dancers as well as those of her friends, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, and Matisse.

This also indicates that the thick paint in Auerbach's work, which led to some of Auerbach's paintings in the 1950s being considered difficult to hang, partly due to their weight and according to some newspaper reports in case the paint fell off, is not primarily the result of building up a lot of paint over time.

Caillebotte's still life paintings focus primarily on food, some at table ready to be eaten and some ready to be purchased, as in a series of paintings he made of meat at a butcher shop.

These paintings offer little in the representation of emotion ; rather, they illustrate the carefully composed movement of their subjects along a primarily horizontal axis.

The colonial art market primarily desired landscape paintings, which were commissioned by wealthy landowners or merchants wanting to record their material success.

After the Allied liberation of France, he moved back to Paris where his paintings were primarily nudes, autoportraits, and portraits.

Since the 1990s Amano has been creating and exhibiting paintings featuring his iconic retro pop icons in galleries around the world, primarily painting on aluminium box panels with acrylic and automotive paint.

Its permanent collection contains primarily abstract expressionist paintings, works on paper, and an outdoor sculpture garden that began in 1966.

Prior to that, paintings had been primarily of religious scenes or of human beings.

* Ralli Museum, dedicated primarily to art in Latin America, it has sculptures by Dalí and Aristide Maillol and paintings by Dalí, Miró, Chagall, Henry Moore, amongst others.

In paintings from Janco's Cabaret Voltaire period, the figurative element is not canceled, but usually subdued: the works show a mix of influences, primarily from Cubism or Futurism, and have been described by Janco's colleague Arp as " zigzag naturalism ".

The term is primarily applied to paintings from the United States art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes.

The curtains were of the same material, and there were some big oil paintings -- portraits in the style of Lancret and Boucher.

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

He even went so far as to decorate his schoolroom with visual elements he thought would inspire learning: paintings, books, comfortable furniture, and busts or portraits of Plato, Socrates, Jesus, and William Ellery Channing.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

In addition to his history paintings, David completed a number of privately commissioned portraits.

Warren Roberts, among others, has pointed out the contrast between David's " public style " of painting, as shown in his history paintings, and his " private style ", as shown in his portraits.

Other portraits include paintings of his sister-in-law and her husband, Madame and Monsieur Seriziat.

His experimental art — which would encompass paintings, drawings as well as a bitter series of aquatinted etchings, published in 1799 under the title Caprichos – was done in parallel to his more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings.

Scenes from epics of Mahabharat and Ramayan along with portraits of local lords form the subject matter of these wall paintings.

When a freedman of Nero was giving a gladiatorial show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants.

On 5 November 2006 the Groninger Museum opened an exposition devoted to Herman Brood's life and work, comprising paintings, lyrics, and poetry, portraits by photographer Anton Corbijn, a collection of private pictures ( from the family album ), and concert photos and videos.

* Monroe is the last president who had never been photographed and whose portraits are preserved today only on paintings.

He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

In traditional depictions, such as paintings, evangelist portraits and church mosaics, St. Luke is often accompanied by an ox or bull, usually having wings.

These types of paintings were far more demanding than the informal portraits upon which Anguissola had based her early reputation, as it took a tremendous amount of time and energy to render the many intricate designs of the fine fabrics and elaborate jewelry associated with royal subjects.

Although Alma-Tadema's fame rests on his paintings set in Antiquity, he also painted portraits, landscapes and watercolors, and made some etchings himself ( although many more were made of his paintings by others ).

In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland.

His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes of flowers, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

The process was used widely in England from the mid-eighteenth century, to reproduce oil paintings and portraits.

He also painted many portraits of Polish gentry and was interested in Huguenot and Polish history as well, making some paintings on the topic.

He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits.

Genre painting is a term for paintings where the main subject features human figures to whom no specific identity attaches-in other words, figures are not portraits, characters from a story, or allegorical personifications.