Discover works by William Christenberry and learn about the artist
Accession ID 2015.19.3180 Artwork Memory Form Memory Form William Christenberry, Pyramid
light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids
African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) was widely recognized during his lifetime for pastoral landscapes of American, Canadian, and European scenery. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to focus on a small group of still-life paintings (fewer than a dozen are known) that Duncanson produced during the late 1840s.
Classically composed with fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid, the painting includes
Rockwell Kent painted Citadel in 1932 during the second of his three excursions to Greenland. It depicts the most prominent mountain on Karrat Island, which Kent described as a “great citadel.” During the course of Kent’s many far-flung travels, mountains came to occupy an especially prominent place in the artist’s imagination.
Visual Description A tall, rocky, pyramid-shaped mountain rising sharply from flat
In the early 17th century, Frans Snyders created a new form of still life by combining fruit and game into a single image, and Still Life with Grapes and Game is an outstanding example of this innovation. Snyders’s lavish still lifes—wittily arranged and executed with his broad, firm brushstrokes and characteristic palette of bright and direct colors—have a dynamic character unmatched by other artists.
painting, luminous green, blue-black, red, and purple grapes are piled up in a rough pyramid
Trick or treat? Discover artists‘ materials that range from spooky to delicious.
are structures that look like the Manhattan skyline, Greek temples, and Egyptian pyramids
During the late 1930s the aging Marsden Hartley experienced a number of personal and professional reversals that prompted him to return to his native state to reinvent himself as a Maine artist. In September 1937, he settled in Bangor, where he realized a long-standing objective to paint Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain.
Pinnacles & Pyramids: The Art of Marsden Hartley.
Before establishing himself as a pioneering member of the dada movement during and after World War I, Picabia experimented with various forms of modernist painting. Procession, Seville belongs to a group of works from 1912 in which the artist demonstrates a sophisticated and highly idiosyncratic assimilation of recent developments in cubism and futurism.[1] Fragmented planes, shallow space, and an allover pattern of flickering lights and darks are all associated with the analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque;
pewter and silver gray, white, pale pink, and coral orange pile up to form a rough pyramid
Biography of an American Artist (Boston, 1992), 161. [16] Jeanne Hokin, Pinnacles and Pyramids
Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut. Yet he was one of the major transmitters of the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to artists in the North.
The athletic Christ Child, the stable pyramid of the Virgin’s form, the strong, and
