As his envoi of 1808 Ingres sent Oedipus and the Sphinx and The Valpinçon Bather ( both now in the Louvre ), hoping by these two paintings to demonstrate his mastery of the male and female nude, but they were poorly received.

Apart from the Betrothal, however, he never received payment for these paintings, due to the collapse of the Murat regime in 1815.

The paintings, primarily portraits, that he sent to the Salon in 1827 and 1833 were well received.

Exhibits of his paintings from the late 1990s at both the Anton Kern and Michael Werner Galleries of New York City received favorable reviews, the most recent of which were held between 2009 and 2010.

Blackie paid £ 25 for 24 paintings with accompanying verses, but it wasn't until publication of Flower Fairies of the Summer in 1925 that Barker received royalties for her work.

At Modena he was received with much favor by the duke, and here he painted the portrait of the duke at the Modena gallery and two portraits that now adorn the Dresden gallery, for these paintings came from the Modena sale of 1746.

Rothko received a second mural commission project, this time a wall of paintings for the penthouse of Harvard University ’ s Holyoke Center.

Nonetheless, Delacroix still received many government commissions for murals and ceiling paintings.

This was his period of greatest activity, and he received numerous important commissions, among them the altarpieces for the Augustinian monastery, the paintings for Santa María la Blanca ( completed in 1665 ), and others.

His paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes.

A year later she received an important commission from Dr. Ronald Tallon, architect of the O ' Reilly Hall at U. C. D., to paint one of the ten large paintings displayed within the Aula Maxima.

The site received international attention when Dublin artist Susanna Drury made watercolour paintings of it in 1739 ; they won Drury the first award presented by the Royal Dublin Society in 1740 and were engraved in 1743.

De Chirico's later paintings never received the same critical praise as did those from his metaphysical period.

The institution did not begin collecting American art until 1979, when it received a gift of 50 paintings from Virginia Steele Scott.

As Venice was a city of great wealth and as popularity increased, he received many orders for private paintings, including ten portraits, including Portrait of a Young Man ( Gemäldegalerie, Berlin ).

He accompanied the French Army during the Crimean War, producing several paintings, including one of the Battle of the Alma, which was not as well received as his earlier paintings.

The training he received in precise measuring was applied to his paintings.

Some of their paintings received international recognition, and many remain embedded in Australia's popular consciousness both inside and outside the art world.

He received prizes for his paintings at both of these institutions.

His first one-man show, in 1890, presented twenty-one paintings at the American Art Galleries and was very well received.

The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official certificate of a painter ( Svobodnyj Khudozhnik ).

In 1618 he received payment for two paintings in the church of Santa Maria dell ' Anima.

British artist Keith Coventry has used Malevich's paintings to make comments on modernism, in particular his Estate Paintings.

Discussing paintings of pleasant landscapes, Lady Croom mistranslates the phrase as " here I am in Arcadia ", on which Thomasina drily comments, " Yes Mama, if you would have it so ".

During this period he also wrote the book Avant et après ( before and after ), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings.

Winckelmann was involved in the dissemination of knowledge of the first large Roman paintings to be discovered, at Pompeii and Herculaneum and, like most contemporaries except for Gavin Hamilton, was unimpressed by them, citing Pliny the Younger's comments on the decline of painting in his period.

Some of his paintings are oversized, most are medium sized acrylics and present pop art images from media sources and historic photos .., " A brush with art: Sensitive painter George Frayne still rocks as Commander Cody ", Austin American-Statesman ( October 18, 1986 ) p D-1 </ ref > His book ; Art Music and Life was released by Qualibre Publications in 2009 and is a mix of his best work and anecdotal comments and related stories.

Most of these early paintings and drawings were unmistakably satirical comments against the Australian Dream, either being set in the newly expanding post-war suburbia or taking the life of those who lived there as their subject matter.

The Society also has a remarkable collection of artifacts which tell the story of Fitchburg — early iron hearth cooking tools, the first printing press of the Fitchburg Sentinel, machines illustrating the strong industrial heritage of the City, a stellar collection of early paintings, and clothing representing many decades in Fitchburg.

In the press, The Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston agreed that “ In a series of one-man and group exhibitions, his paintings and puzzles, sculptures and contraptions-contemporary successors to Duchamp ’ s chance-based works-have delighted and tantalised an tangled into knots the minds of viewers ... Tyson ’ s works are like experiments, made not to prove facts but to promote creativity.

They confiscated some suspicious paintings and threatened their buyers with complicity in the crime if they did not press charges against Jansen.

The battle was the subject of several paintings and was covered extensively in the illustrated press.

The title is an invention of the Victorian public and press, dating from its exhibition in the opening display at the Bethnal Green Museum in 1872-75, just after its arrival in England, where it became famous, much reproduced in prints, and for long one of the best known old master paintings, at least in Britain.

Because the emulsion is gelatin-based, and the Mylar covering does not allow water vapor to readily pass, the emulsion stays soft for several days, allowing artists to press and manipulate the emulsion to produce effects somewhat like impressionist paintings.

In haste he labored to finish some last abstract paintings: a three-panel frieze, with a flying figure and a fallen figure ; ;

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

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 ).

Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman has returned to the capital with a collection of paintings that include Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, and Walt Kuhn.

Along with the gallery aide who explained the various paintings and sculptures to each group, went one of the Gallery's blue-uniformed guards.

An exhibition of Evelyn Cibula's paintings will open with a reception Nov. 5 at the Evanston Community center, 828 Davis St..

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

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.

Trained by his father who was a lace designer, Boucher won fame with his sensuous and light-hearted mythological paintings and landscapes.

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.

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

It would be a mistake to praise Warhol for the design of his boxes ( which were designed by Steve Harvey ), yet the conceptual move of exhibiting these boxes as art in a museum together with other kinds of paintings is Warhol's.

Other paintings Dürer produced in Venice include The Virgin and Child with the Goldfinch, Christ Disputing with the Doctors ( supposedly produced in a mere five days ), and a number of smaller works.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

Work of preventive conservation in a rock wall with prehistoric paintings at the Serra da Capivara National Park.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

The evidence for Aelbert ’ s evolution to foreground figure painter is in the production of some paintings from 1645-50 featuring foreground animals that do not fit with Jacob ’ s style.