This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

they can also be applied to opaque panels for use on cutouts, or they can be applied directly to painted bulletin faces.

Letters may be wired to the face of the combined channels, painted on the first surface, or handled in other ways.

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

Surrealists like Hans Arp and Max Ernst might talk of creation by hazard -- of composing pictures by walking on them with painted soles, or by tossing bits of paper up in the air.

the genial smile seemed painted on his face.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

In the northern or " Anasazi " portion of the Ancestral Pueblo world, from about 500 to 1300 CE, the most common decorated pottery had black painted designs on white or light gray backgrounds.

painted on the side of them.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

His bouquets were painted symmetrically and with scientific accuracy in small dimensions and normally on copper.

In Egypt in 1887, W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

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.

on top of the dried acrylic painted surface.

Additionally the pillars of a stylobate on the building's upper platform were painted black and red.

The Berlin Wall in 1986, painted on the western side.

The East Side Gallery is an open-air exhibition of art painted directly on the last existing portions of the Berlin Wall.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

In 1535 he was in Vienna, where he painted the small panel of St. George in the Forest ( Laubwald mit dem Heiligen Georg ).

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

In a period of convalescence during 1793 – 1794, Goya completed a set of eleven small pictures painted on tin ; known as Fantasy and Invention, they mark a significant change in his art.

* Skagen Painters a group of Scandinavian artists who painted in a small Danish fishing village

In Le Havre he painted portraits and small genre pieces for several months, before moving back to Paris.

Next, Van Goyen would loosely and very rapidly sketch out the scene to be painted with pen and ink without going into the small details of his subject.

In this, paint is atomized by the force of compressed air or by the action of high pressure compression of the paint itself, and the paint is turned into small droplets which travel to the article which is to be painted.

** Portrait miniature, a very small painted portrait ( or other type of painting )

: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.

In addition to Seurat, the roots of cubism are to be found in the two distinct tendencies of Cézanne's later work: first his breaking of the painted surface into small multifaceted areas of paint, thereby emphasizing the plural viewpoint given by binocular vision, and second his interest in the simplification of natural forms into cylinders, spheres, and cones.

It was a small barracks, painted white with a red cross on it.

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.

Throughout his life he revisited a small number of favourite themes, and painted multiple versions of many of his major compositions.

He also drew a number of landscape views while in Rome but, with the exception of the small tondo Raphael's Casino ( two other small tondos are of questionable attribution ), he painted no pure landscapes.

It was a small piano, able to be lifted by four men, painted olive drab, gray or blue, designed to be carried aboard ships or dropped by parachute from an airplane, in order to bring music to the soldiers.

Seeing the magical miniature pictures that light temporarily " painted " on the screen of a small camera obscura inspired several experimenters to search for some way of automatically making highly detailed permanent copies of them by means of some such substance.

The shadow was represented graphically as a small human figure painted completely black as well, as a figure of death, or servant of Anubis.

The walls were probably painted at one time – a very small fragment of a dragon or a serpent-like creature still exists on the wall of the old rood staircase.

Inside the city, a small commercial district includes the ubiquitous California Central Valley water tank painted with the city's name.

The male courtly ideal included a faint moustache and thin goatee, while women's mouths were painted small and red, and their eyebrows were plucked or shaved and redrawn higher on the forehead.

A large " Sabena " title covered the fuselage in light blue and the name " Belgian World Airlines " was at times just visible, though the title was also painted on the fuselage in small, clear letters.

Once made it is painted with bright colors and filled with candy or small toys.