The 1949 opening of the Apadana gallery in Tehran signaled a commitment to the creation of a form of modern art grounded in Iran.
Graduates of the school were taught in a manner radically different than in Kamal
Glass was present in nearly every aspect of daily life—from a lady’s morning toilette to a merchant’s afternoon business dealings to the evening cena, or dinner.
Merchants and traders routinely packed, shipped, and sold all manner of foodstuffs
Whistler began to envision and entitle his works with the abstract language of music, calling them symphonies, compositions, harmonies, nocturnes, and arrangements.
reveal that he had rejected his earlier commitment to transcribing nature in the manner
Jorge A. Lines, San Jose, Costa Rica, until 1932; [Joseph W. Dammann, Hollywood, CA, until 1956]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1956, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1956–1978
skills of the artist(s) who made it, from the selection of the raw material to the manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the Artist, after Filippino Lippi Edouard Manet ca. 1857 Self-Portrait in the Manner
In addition to their radical technique, the bright colors of Impressionist canvases were shocking for eyes accustomed to the more sober colors of Academic painting.
this time, few of the participants were working in a recognizably Impressionist manner
Rejecting the idealized classicism of academic art and the exotic themes of Romanticism, Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world.
such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, satirizing government officials and the manners
Initially trained as a lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one.
early work, which he began exhibiting in 1895, was informed by the dry academic manner
Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner
The first comprehensive survey of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings ever presented in America, this international loan exhibition brings together nearly 120 works of extraordinary beauty by one of the great masters of all time, surveying his staggering contribution as an artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher.
an art-historical term created to describe his seamless blending of tone in the manner
