The 18th-century French still life painter considered it one of her best paintings.
Her early works closely followed the model of French still life painter Jean Siméon
Nineteenth-century viewers and critics were immediately taken with Rodin’s three-dimensional group, entitled Paolo and Francesca , the passionate lovers from the fifth canto of Dante’s Inferno . When one enthusiastic critic referred to it as The Kiss , the new title stuck, and the association with Dante’s ill-fated lovers gave way to a more contemporary, universal response to their passionate embrace.
Search Breadcrumb Home Artworks The Kiss (Le Baiser) The Kiss (Le Baiser) model
Learn about the lives and works of artists of Latin American descent working in the United States from the 1930s to today.
She was her own model, photographer, stylist, makeup artist, writer, and graphic
): cxxvii. [2] The Kuhns’ files describe that the work was “painted direct from model
A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
He was extremely precise in where the model is standing, where the window is, where
The popular Florentine subject of the young John the Baptist is here presented in a different conception from that of Antonio Rossellino’s delicately beautiful marble bust. The difference is not only in the medium, painted terra cotta, which has retained much original coloring that contributes to an immediate naturalism.
1490 Florentine 15th Century Sculptor Florentine 15th Century, probably after a model
How Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Thomas Hart Benton depicted the humble structures—and how they mask the struggles of farmers today.
Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.706 Wright Morris, Model
Some layers, such as the soft lavenders that model the shaded portions of the lower
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art—form—by analyzing the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures. Students will then experiment with line in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.
Slideshow: Form in Works of Art Roy Lichtenstein, House I, model 1996, fabricated
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
small bronze versions cast after 1905. [5] According to Dina Vierny, Maillol’s last model
