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Harlequin with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1917. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1] The harlequin with his checkered costume was a favorite theme of cubists and Gris portrayed him in approximately forty works between 1917 and 1925.
The guitar comes to represent the guitarist's world and only hope for survival. This blind and poor subject depends on his guitar and the small income he can earn from his music for survival. Some art historians believe this painting expresses the solitary life of an artist and the natural struggles that come with the career.
Still Life with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1913. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Gallery 905. [1] The work was created in the small French town of Céret in the Pyrenees.
Woman Playing a Guitar is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Simon Vouet, executed c. 1618. The painting is in tenebrist style and depicts a finely dresses woman distractedly playing a guitar. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press. The frontispiece to the portfolio mentions Hockney's dual inspirations: "The Blue Guitar Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by
The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Queen's guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, when Brian was a teenager in the early 1960s. [1] [2] The Red Special is sometimes referred to as the Fireplace or the Old Lady by May and by others. [3]
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The guitar had a Floyd Rose vibrato system, built by Ping, which lowers pitch only as the device plate sits on the body top (similarly to the Ernie Ball Music Man EVH model) but added a d-Tuna device on the low E-string, which allowed that string to be instantly tuned to and from D (a former design of this device, named "The Willie" [12] was ...