Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Olive

Piet Mondrian intended his abstract or so-called „neo-plastic“ paintings to express his fundamentally spiritual notion that universal harmonies preside in nature. The horizontal and vertical elements of his compositions, assiduously calibrated to produce a balanced asymmetry, represented forces of opposition that parallel the dynamic equilibrium at work in the natural world.
Chicago, 2001: 94-95, 211, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Imported olives and a simple roll rounded out the feast, which would have been washed

Through the 1920s, Matisse stayed in Nice from late fall to early spring of each year, while his wife and family remained in Issy-les-Moulineaux outside Paris. Pianist and Checker Players is set in Matisse’s Nice apartment and shows the artist’s favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, and her two brothers.
New Haven, 2000: 264 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

A painting may provide a “window� into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
Henri Matisse. 1994: repro. 40. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Latin America, with its rich histories and cultures — as well as dense jungles, towering volcanoes, and mountain ranges — fascinated American artists in the mid-19th century. Frederic Edwin Church traveled in the tropics and used the sketches he made in different locations to create popular landscape paintings.
London, 1996: no. 213, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Milan, 2002: no. 92/3, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

In this Arcadian portrait, Anthony van Dyck pictures Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, standing before a shimmering green drapery against a rocky backdrop, while holding a shepherd’s houlette in the crook of his arm. His regal pose and his sumptuous attire with its rich golden-yellow, purple, and emerald tones convey both grace and elegance, while his gaze exudes self-confidence.
[1] Oliver Millar, "Philip, Lord Wharton, and His Collection of Portraits," The

Eighteenth Century Studies 33, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 548, 551, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver

Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Hand, John Oliver.

A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World, 1998: 1, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver