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David Hockney. Portrait of Shinro Ohtake. Early 1978
Pencil and coloured chalks on white paper.
Signed with initials and inscribed Shinro DH at the lower right.
235 x 265 mm.The subject of this portrait drawing is a young Japanese artist who befriended Hockney in the late 1970's
@historydefined A phyrry victory comes from a victory which is so costly it may as well be a defeat. Here are few samples: It's a victory that just isn't worth it. Battle Of Malplaquet.Battle Of Lutzen. Second Boer War. Battle Of Chancellorsville.Pearl Harbor. Battle Of Borodin. World War I
Maya Ruiz-Picasso, a daughter of Pablo Picasso who as a child was painted and drawn by her famous father numerous times, and who after his death in 1973 was frequently consulted for her knowledge about his works, died on Tuesday in Paris surrounded by her family. She was 87.
Walt Disney -John Hench,the official portrait artist for Mickey Mouse.Walt Disney pioneered the use of sound &colour in motion pictures with cartoon shorts as The Three Little Pigs 1933.He also planned &built Disneyland,opened in 1955.Before his death begun building Disney World,
Hope your Turkey Day is full of fun, food, family, and most importantly, football.”
ALEXANDER BOGOMAZOV. Sharpening Saws,1927. He was a Ukrainian painter, known artist & modern art theoretician of the Russian Avant-garde. In 1914, Alexander wrote his treatise: The Art of Painting and the Elements. He mastered several art styles: Cubo-Futurism and Spectralism.
The 1938 painting White Crucifixion represents a critical turning point for Marc Chagall:it was the first of an important series of works that feature the image of Christ as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of European Jews (1930s).
Cubism and The Trompe l’Oeil. Pablo picasso, Still life with Chair Canning, 1912; Juan Gris. Breakfast 1914; Georges Braque, Still Life, Fruit Dish,Ace of Clubs. On View at The Met. How the modern masters of Cubism use perspective to create illusions or confound the viewer.
In the immeasurable expanses of time, we see how life advances and ascends from its origins to man, and we cannot deny that infinite possibilities of perfection still await humanity. Thomas Mann.
Duccio. The Temptation of Christ is one of a series of panels illustrating the life of Christ painted for the Maestà, a huge double-sided altarpiece commissioned for the altar of the Siena Cathedral. In the Frick panel, a majestically towering Christ is shown rejecting the devil