Saints played a very important role in the popular piety of the late Middle Ages. They were considered to be not only patrons and protectors against all manner of ills, but also mediators between the individual worshiper and God.
loincloth, stands in a shallow body of water facing another man who kneels on the bank
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Romare Bearden’s collage Tomorrow I May Be Far Away. Students learn how to look at this collage, what you can read to learn more, how to create a collage, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
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Painted late in her career when she was experimenting with unconventional viewpoints, Sky with Flat White Cloud is the second in a series of seven paintings in which Georgia O’Keeffe took inspiration from flying in an airplane high above the earth’s surface, observing the surrounding atmosphere and cloud formations. Excited by the experience of air travel, she remarked, “I’ve often thought how wonderful it would be to simply stand out in space and have nothing!” In this painting and two others in the group, she divided the vista into three horizontal bands;
Norfolk, 2015-2016, no catalogue. 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank
By 1900, John Singer Sargent ’s notoriety as a portrait painter had earned him a ceaseless flow of commissions from prominent families in both England and the United States. But he grew tired of the demands and restrictions of these grand manner portraits, and began spending part of each year in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Spain.
Recenter Visual Description Gnarled, ash-brown roots woven through a muddy, rocky bank
Color Panels for a Large Wall was created by Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) in 1978 for the Central Trust Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
It was installed at the bank until 1992, when the building was renovated and the
Executed in 1927, Line and Curve is the last in a group of four highly abstract, predominantly white, narrow vertical compositions whose imagery can be traced in part to Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in Manhattan’s modern architecture. As its title indicates, Line and Curve consists of a simple juxtaposition of a vertical line running down the center of the canvas intersected by a sweeping curve that extends through the upper right quadrant of the composition.
Norfolk, 2015-2016, no catalogue. 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
The land rises in a sloping bank to our right, and leads back to open fields with
A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 — Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener. Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.
Recenter Visual Description A woman stands on a sun-dappled path, which runs past a bank
A bank of cream-white and some pale gray clouds fill most of the sky, breaking to
Born in Okayama, Japan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi had no intention of becoming an artist when he emigrated alone to the United States at age 16. Encouraged by a high school teacher in Los Angeles, he attended that city’s School of Art and Design for three years.
Prohibited from owning a camera or binoculars, the artist also had his bank account
