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The so-called aria della piovra ("Octopus aria") Un dì, ero piccina in Pietro Mascagni's opera Iris (1898), on a libretto by Luigi Illica, may have been inspired by this print. The main character Iris describes a screen she had seen in a Buddhist temple when she was a child, depicting an octopus coiling its limbs around a smiling young woman ...
The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Figurative art is present in Europe and Southeast Asia , beginning around 50,000 years ago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Non-figurative cave paintings , consisting of hand stencils and simple geometric shapes, are somewhat older, at least 40,000 years old, and possibly as old ...
Eitaku was born 22 April 1843, a third son of Miura Kichisaburo. At the age of 12 or 13 he became an apprentice under the Kanō school painter Kanō Eishin.Few years later he started to work for Ii Naosuke of Ii clan in Hikone as an official painter, he was given a samurai status.
The NROL-39 mission patch, depicting the National Reconnaissance Office as an octopus with a long reach. Cephalopods, usually specifically octopuses, squids, nautiluses and cuttlefishes, are most commonly represented in popular culture in the Western world as creatures that spray ink and use their tentacles to persistently grasp at and hold onto objects or living creatures.
Gyotaku eventually evolved into an art form with three different approaches: The direct method (直接法, chokusetsu-hō) is the closest to the original method. The fish is cleaned, prepped, supported, and then inked. At this point, dampened washi ("rice" paper) is applied to the fish, and an image is created by careful hand rubbing or pressing.
Entrance to the cave. The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951.It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic.It contains cave art, most notably a total of 71 hand stencils, enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, [1] but also linear designs and some animal paintings.
The Octopus represents a construction resting upon eight ‘Octopus’ arms with eight arched openings between them. It is an iron structure, pulled together and welded on the spot according to a special plan. In architecture it is known as double shell or gridshell structure. The structure is coated with iron netting, plastered and faced with ...
The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art", [1] as well as being a contender for the "most famous artwork in Japanese history". [2] This woodblock print has influenced several Western artists and musicians, including Claude Debussy, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.