His hand is close to the photographer so is slightly out of focus, and he cups his
Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems make us look and think twice. At first glance, this seems to be a 19th-century sepia-toned print of three girls in an idyllic pastoral setting.
She wears a floral-patterned dress and holds her right hand up to the top of her
How the duo’s book documents their artistic collaboration and romantic relationship through beautiful, witty, and sometimes irreverent mixed media art.
Disrupting this quaint scene is a human hand holding a bottle of hair oil—an uncanny
blue, yellow, red, and pink flowers, woven with strands of ivy, dangles in the hand
the man leaning down to tie his skate, and, in reverse, the young couple skating hand
The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
He holds his left hand, farther from us, in front of his chest with his open palm
His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a
This rare example of an intact portable triptych from the late fifteenth century is further enhanced by its superb state of preservation. On the exterior wings are two of the most popular saints in Western art, Saints Barbara and Catherine, who represent the active and the contemplative life, respectively.
(Text by John Oliver Hand, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue
This painting evokes the art of the past only to break boldly with its conventions. The boy is posed like an aristocrat in a 16th-century Italian portrait.
His right hand, to our left, is planted on that hip.
One hand props up Jesus’s shoulder and the other wraps around his other forearm.
