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.

Mr. Sansom can be eloquent in a spectacular way which recalls ( to those who recall easily ) the statues of Bernini and the gigantic paintings of Tintoretto.

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.

Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.

Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >

A phenomenal number of paintings are ascribed to him, some of which are likely to be by other masters of the golden landscape, such as Abraham Calraet ( 1642 – 1722 ), whose initials A. C. may be mistaken for Cuyp's.

Adding to the confusion is the similar initials between the two and the inconsistent signing of paintings which were produced by Cuyp ’ s studio.

Most original Cuyp paintings were signed by him, and in the script manner in which his name was inscribed.

Conversely, paintings which came out of his workshop that were not necessarily physically worked on by Cuyp but merely overseen by him technically, were marked with A. C. to show that it was his instruction which saw the paintings ’ completion.

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.

The exhibition included paintings, bronzes, and porcelain which had previously not been available to the public.

In May 2012, Love debuted an art show at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York titled " And She's Not Even Pretty ", which contained over forty drawings and paintings by Love composed in ink, colored pencil, pastels, and watercolors.

Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on " series " paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.

In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts: the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims.

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

Alston's murals were hung in the Women's Pavilion of the hospital over uncapped radiators which caused the paintings to deteriorate from the steam.

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

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 ).

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.

It may have been true for all I know, because his glasses were like the bottoms of milk bottles, but it didn't prevent the paintings from being exciting.

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.

In this period some " artisanal " products ( such as textiles ) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures.

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.

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

Cuyp ” insignia, many paintings were left unsigned ( not to mention undated ) after being painted, and so a similar signature was added later on, presumably by collectors who inherited / discovered the works.

Furthermore, many possible Cuyp paintings were not signed but rather initialed “ A.

v. C .”), this brings up the question of how paintings were signed to show ownership.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

Mice and rabbits were the most frequent subject of her fantasy paintings.

During her lifetime, and to this day, note cards of her paintings are available from Leanin ' Tree.

* Since the mid 1960s, water based fluorescent magenta paint has been available to paint psychedelic black light paintings.

In 1875, the entire museum was available for paintings.

With this endless supply of money he bought some of the greatest art collections that were available at the time – at a point, in one single occasion, over 80 paintings by great Italian masters were taken in to the royal palace in Lisbon.

Because these prints could be mass-produced, they were available to a wide cross-section of the Japanese populace — those not wealthy enough to afford original paintings — during their heyday, from the 17th to 20th century.

Especially in the case of dead artists, they can be the only evidence of the artist's incremental development of an image, something not usually available with drawings, paintings, or sculpture.

In ink wash paintings, as in calligraphy, artists usually grind inkstick over an inkstone to obtain black ink, but prepared inks are also available.

For her, the art of photography is " as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are ", for cameras are produced rapidly as a " mass art form " and are available to all of those with the means to attain them.

The imagery of the Aboriginal culture, as can be seen in many of the sacred sites, rock and cave paintings, used few colours as they were often made from what was available locally.

The house has been acquired by the National Trust and is open to the public, the house is not fully furnished, but the original features and furniture by Morris and Philip Webb, stained glass and paintings by Burne-Jones, the bold architecture and a garden designed to ' clothe the house are still available to view.

While permanent pigments are usually used for paintings, painters have made work wholly or partially with fugitive pigments for a number of reasons: ignorance regarding the volatility of the pigments ; being more concerned with the appearance of colors available only with fugitive pigments than with permanence ; or the desire to have a painting change in appearance over time.

Nudes paintings are found in every medium available, such as oil, watercolor, pastel and digital.

The paintings were first shown in an exhibition, Hommage à Tuiga, in Monaco but will be available to a much wider audience when they are shown as part of a touring exhibition that opens at the Kirkcaldy Museum in Fife in March 2010.

* ' Two Paintings and a Sceptic ', lecture by Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, on the question of religious faith in paintings by El Greco and Picasso, given at Gresham College, 26 February 2008 ( available in text, audio and video formats ).

His many fabulous paintings are available at Laxmi Vilas Palace of Vadodara.

The Salon exhibited paintings floor-to-ceiling and on every available inch of space.

The licensing agreement included the right to update and reprint the text and diagrams of the original books as well as to reproduce the designs of the original art, but the rights to the paintings themselves were not available.

In litigating that issue there is not only a difference of opinion with respect to the value of the hundreds of paintings in this estate but also whether a blockage discount should be given to the estate and whether a further discount should be available due to the inter vivos contract for an exclusive agency in favor of Marlborough Galleries for seven years after death, and finally whether a discount should be enjoyed by the estate for commissions which must be paid for selling many of the paintings by agents of the estate.

The Child Jesus is frequently depicted in art, from around the third or fourth century onwards, in icons and paintings, sculpture, and all the media available.

* International Dunhuang Project — an international collaboration to make more than 100, 000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites available on Internet.

His collection of books, paintings, drawings, photographs and other media are available for viewing at the Wellcome Library.

Also available for view at the Maruki Gallery are the Marukis ' further collaborative paintings on Auschwitz, the Nanking massacre, the battle of Okinawa, Minamata, and their summary collaborative painting entitled Hell.