Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation

building of a new national collection through private means, a challenge to which the nation

acknowledgment of African American contributions to the progress of both state and nation

„The eye must grasp, bring things together,“ Cézanne said, „The brain will give it shape.“ In a still life, where the artist also creates the world he paints, each object, each placement, each viewpoint represents a decision. Cézanne painted and repainted the objects pictured here many times.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

On this decorative screen, Edouard Vuillard painted the Place Vintimille (now the Place Adolphe-Max), as seen from his fifth-floor apartment. Vuillard was an avid photographer, and he took snapshots from his window to use as reference for these panels.
Vuillard, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1938, no. 135. 2000 Art for the Nation

Two of Magritte’s favored themes were the „window painting“ and the „painting within a painting.“ The Human Condition is one of Magritte’s earliest treatments of either subject, and in it he combines the two, making what may be his most subtle and profound statement of their shared meaning. The Human Condition displays an easel placed inside a room and in front of a window.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

In December 1872, Sisley traveled to Port-Marly, a village in the western suburbs of Paris. There he produced four paintings showing the flooding of the Seine River.
, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 73, repro 1986 Gifts to the Nation

Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1987-1988, no. 27A, repro. 1991 Art for the Nation

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 125, repro 1986 Gifts to the Nation

, 1904-1912, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1997, no. 8, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation