1935-1937 | Watercolor
Unavailable at this time Artwork Medium:  Watercolor Full Title:  Nature ... and prevented from working directly from nature for several years. During his ... Nature and Struggling Imperious Man and the smaller Early Western ...
1992 | Two-channel video and sound installation with double-sided rotating screen, looped
of vignettes of daily human activity and life: newborn babies, children at play, ... nature-a catalogue of everything that constitutes the world we inhabit ... believes," and so on. His incantation evokes human consciousness ...
1968 | Oil on canvas
Bravo (1902–2002) in Mexico made use of the uncanny nature of mannequins ... paint purposefully creates the illusionistic effects that occur naturally ... frame in the space occupied by the viewer. Tamayo invokes the human figure ...
1888 | Oil on canvas
confidence—stand in contrast to the relatively passive human figures, who seem little ... the coup-de-grace. Surand's shift from human to animal protagonists suggests ... between the expectations of academic art, natural science, and visual ...
circa 1800 | Wood
in the eastern most area of Polynesia, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) lacks the natural ... this minimal amount of natural wood or found pieces, ... an abstract human face made up of a long, thin, nasal ridge that curves up ...
circa 1700-1710 | Ink on paper
in nature or a human activity. Kumbha Ragaputra is likened to the sound ...
500-700 | Camelid fiber and cotton slit tapestry weave with fringe
the gods of nature was imperative in its pantheistic and polytheistic ... creatures in human, animal and composite form with myriad limbs ... and aspect of nature. Early textiles from about A.D. 100 to 400 depicted ...
circa 1918 | Oil on panel
and naturalized it in his painting. The other is less obvious but just as important ... to think of his painting surface as something natural. These two wildly ... landscape, and uniting both an interest in Asian art and in natural science, ...
1899 | Oil on canvas
themes, and ultimately on the relationship of humanity to nature, Eakins ... depth, his primary focus was the body, the human being embodied in his ... of what one must learn is how to depict the human body in action, how ...
before 1919 | Oil on canvas
in capturing the more delicate and serene aspects of nature. The soft, grayish ... of the newer interest in the emotive potential of the human form. Equestrian ... firsthand the boy’s experience of nature. The painting was bought from ...
circa 1775 | Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
embodies Vishnu’s protective nature. He is a savior who is worshipped ... is used as a metaphor for the attraction of the human soul to divinity. Its ...
18th century | Copper with traces of devotional paint
half-human mount of Vishnu), Indrani rides an elephant, Kumari rides a peacock, ... and multifaceted nature of the divine feminine. The Nava Durga are worshiped by both ...
circa 1950 | Wood and pigment
and a large head, all of which imply its sacred nature in the art of the Sawos People of the Middle Sepik River region. Their art primarily depicts human ...
1865-1869 | Plaited natural straw, silk ribbon
Not currently on public view Artwork Medium:  Plaited natural straw, silk ribbon ... of the newer interest in the emotive potential of the human form. Equestrian ...
1898 | Oil on canvas
for art's sake." His argument that art is neither didactic nor natural ... with great delicacy. This balance of the human interest of the subject ... potential of the human form. Equestrian bronzes by Frederic Remington ...
1849 | Oil on canvas
natural phenomena came to fully dwarf any human presence. Immense paintings ... natural phenomena but also to the mid-nineteenth century’s general enthusiasm for nature and geology, an enthusiasm shared by Field. During ...
650–800 CE | Slip-painted ceramic
animal and human characteristics. They represent wayob', the companion ... contacted by the living king to sustain the well-being of the human community. ... Megan E. <em>Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts from the Los ...
1870 | Oil on mahogany panel
a faint human face emerge in the cloudy sky. Similar images of a floating ... of a personal nature rather than to describe the material world. The art historian ... nature of life and the dreamlike quality of memory. In its quiet, ...
1936 | Oil and collage on masonite | On View
World expanded the human imagination.” Young American students still ... the human mind but also encouraged the liberation of social conduct, ... a diagram relating three different births—of plants, of humans ...
circa 1872 | Oil on canvas
of the period to convey the nationalistic pride of a country rich in natural resources and human energy. Although Whittredge explained his attraction ...