Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation

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

War art often memorializes battles and turning points. It also commemorates military leaders, from classical era generals like Zenobia, to medieval heroes like Joan of Arc, to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the American Civil War. Today, war artists document the human cost of conflict, with photography serving as a powerful tool.
And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation

In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hoschedé and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it.
Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat. 2000 Art for the Nation

; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, no. 165. 1986 Gifts to the 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.