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In fiction, a character is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). [1] [2] [3] The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. [2]
Michael Fell Hon RE [1] [2] [3] (31 January 1939 – 12 March 2023) was a British painter, printmaker and draftsman in the figurative tradition. [4] Fell was active in both Britain and France, exhibiting paintings, drawings and prints in Britain, the United States of America and France over the course of his life.
Sheila Fell RA FRSA (20 July 1931 – 15 December 1979) [1] was an English artist. She was born at Aspatria , Cumberland , in 1931. Although she lived in London for the greater part of her life, she devoted her career to painting the Cumberland landscape.
The English word "fell" comes from Old Norse fell and fjall (both forms existed). [1] It is cognate with Danish fjeld, Faroese fjall and fjøll, Icelandic fjall and fell, Norwegian fjell with dialects fjøll, fjødd, fjedd, fjedl, fjill, fil(l), and fel, [2] and Swedish fjäll, all referring to mountains rising above the alpine tree line.
Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.
The more recent and specific sense of the word art as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art emerged in the early 17th century. [18] Fine art refers to a skill used to express the artist's creativity, or to engage the audience's aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of more refined or finer works of art.
English art is the body of visual arts made in England.England has Europe's earliest and northernmost ice-age cave art. [1] Prehistoric art in England largely corresponds with art made elsewhere in contemporary Britain, but early medieval Anglo-Saxon art saw the development of a distinctly English style, [2] and English art continued thereafter to have a distinct character.
The character, overtly or otherwise, behaves like, has the personality of, and may even be described as physically resembling the author of the work. In visual art , the equivalent of self-insertion is the inserted self-portrait , where the artist includes a self-portrait in a painting of a narrative subject.