followed the school’s well-established formulas for depicting expanses of rural and wild
followed the school’s well-established formulas for depicting expanses of rural and wild
For centuries of Western art, it was reserved solely for painting the Virgin Maryâ
For centuries of Western art, it was reserved solely for painting the Virgin Maryâ
and a Wild Sheep Plate 12: A Cheetah(?)
and a Wild Sheep Plate 12: A Cheetah(?)
Craig Saffoe, the National Zoo’s curator of Great Cats, explores Rubens’s depiction of lions in a key moment of drama.
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Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captured the essence of modern life in New York City. Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city. He instead drew on several bustling commercial districts to create an imaginary composite, an impossibly crowded image that would best convey a sense of the city’s frenetic pace.
CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.
