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  2. Day and Night (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Along the center, the image is divided into complementary black (right) and white (left), or, as the title suggests, day and night. The birds of the image contradict the overall partition of black and white throughout the image, as the black birds are in the white part of the image, while the white birds are in the black part, each of them ...

  3. Dog Barking at the Moon - Wikipedia

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    The painting presents a sparse, earthy brown landscape set against a black sky. However, Miró uses bright and playful colors to depict the distorted figure of a dog in the right foreground barking at the half moon and bird above it. In the left foreground, a ladder extends from the bottom of the painting before receding into the dark night sky.

  4. Skyscape art - Wikipedia

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    Sky can be depicted as many different colors, such as a pale blue or the lack of any color at all, such as the night sky, which has the appearance of blackness, albeit with a scattering of stars on a clear night. During the day, the sky is seen as a deep blue due to the sunlight reflected on the air. Astronomically speaking, the sky is a ...

  5. Night in paintings (Western art) - Wikipedia

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    Archip Kuindshi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper 1882 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1874 [1] [2] The depiction of night in paintings is common in Western art. Paintings that feature a night scene as the theme may be religious or history paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, or other ...

  6. Sky and Water I - Wikipedia

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    Sky and Water I is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in June 1938. The basis of this print is a regular division of the plane consisting of birds and fish . Both prints have the horizontal series of these elements —fitting into each other like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle —in the middle, transitional portion of ...

  7. Category:Birds in art - Wikipedia

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    Sky and Water I; Sky and Water II; Smiling Fishergirl; The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) Solly Madonna; A Sparrowhawk; St. Jerome at Prayer (Bosch) St. John the Evangelist on Patmos; Stele of the Vultures; Still Life of Fruit and Dead Fowl; Still Life of Fruit, Dead Birds, and a Monkey; Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets; Study of a Stork ...

  8. Cultural depictions of dogs - Wikipedia

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    Dogs of various types, and occasionally of specific breeds, occur as charges and supporters in many coats of arms, and often symbolise courage, vigilance, loyalty, and fidelity. [19] Three encaustic tiles dating from the 15th century feature a white hound, the Talbot crest and the inscription "Sir John Talbot" (the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury). Part ...

  9. Night sky - Wikipedia

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    Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...