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The work has been compared to the description of the artist's appearance in old age in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as "delicate and gentle, with long and battered beard and hair, almost a saviour, different from what had been". Its attribution to Parmigianino is almost unanimous among art historians and is upheld by Fagiolo dell'Arco (1970 ...
Female self-portrait in painting is the representation of a person of the female gender painted by herself. While using pictorial techniques and responding to the motivations of the self-portrait in general, the female self-portrait differentiates itself from the male by aspects concerning the physiognomy , the anatomy and the physiology of the ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Art historian Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. described the painting as a picture of an old man with light caressing his face, revealing wrinkled skin. The man has a furrowed brow and glinting off of his eyes. It was created during a time when Lievens etched numerous tronies (1620s and early 1630s). [5] He said Lievens "indicated the transparency of the ...
The Eternal Feminine is an 1877 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. [1] The ambiguous work shows men gathered around a single female figure. A range of professions are represented: writers, lawyers, and a painter (possibly Eugène Delacroix or Cézanne himself).
The Infant The Schoolboy The Lover The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world's a stage from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age. The set of paintings are in pen and ink ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Another painting from the same year, called The Great War on Facades (La Grande Guerre Façades, 1964), features a person standing in front of a wall overlooking the sea (as in The Son of Man), but it is a woman, holding an umbrella, her face covered by flowers. There is also Man in the Bowler Hat, a similar painting wherein a man's face is ...