The United States is frequently described as a “nation of immigrants.� Immigrants have played a pivotal role in the country’s history and understanding of itself.
What emotions do you imagine Gorky might have felt while making this painting?
The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
What emotions do the works of Audubon and Middleton evoke in you?
See how six artists envisioned the Bard’s plays, from “Romeo and Juliet� to “King Lear.�
She focused on faces and expressions, bringing out the emotions and drama of the
Nearly every artist makes drawings at some point. Some use them as a way of thinking, jotting ideas down as quickly as they occur. Such rough sketches can offer fascinating glimpses into the artist’s imagination or their process. Meanwhile, many artists make elaborate drawings as finished works.
Some artists explored the human form and emotions through portraits of loved ones
Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s composition, contain and present light, allowing us to forge a deeper relationship with an ephemeral substance.
CELESTE HEADLEE: It occurs to me that we so often ascribe emotions to colors in the
Although his name occurs in documents for the first time in the years between 1346 and 1348, when he enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali (the Florentine guild to which painters also belonged),[1] Nardo, brother of the painters Andrea and Jacopo , was already considered one of the leading painters of his city by midcentury.[2] An artist whose paintings have been described as fragile, delicate, dreamy, or remote , characterized by a peculiar, “lyrical mood,�[3] Nardo must have been trained under the influence of such painters as Maso and Stefano. Of the few works by his hand cited in the documents, only the fragments of a cycle of frescoes in the Oratorio del Bigallo in Florence, commissioned in 1363, have survived, but it has been argued, probably correctly, that an image of the Madonna formerly in the Ufficio della Gabella dei Contratti, once signed and dated 1356, can be identified with the panel of the Madonna and Child with four saints now in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.[4] It is also certain that the painter made his will in May 1365 and that by the following year he was already reported dead.
in this cycle, men and women of proud mien but also capable of expressing deep emotions
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She often used art to process her emotions.
See how Titian, Cezanne, and Rozeal. remix and reinterpret conventions for painting people.
We sense his conflicted emotions: uncertainty and pride.
, in a word, all bodily movements and expressions that result from man’s many emotions
When Dutch artist Willem van Aelst painted dead animals, did he use the images to grapple with the full circle of life?
look for hunting-season or slaughter-day pictures that remind me of conflicted emotions
