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In 1927, she exhibited at the International Exhibition of Art Industry and Decorative Arts in Monza. Her works continued to appear in exhibitions in the USSR. [4] [2] [3] Shchekatikhina painted landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, painted fabrics, and designed models of men's and women's clothing.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts of the world. ... century women artists; List of 21st-century women ...
One of best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting entitled Mona Lisa, named for Lisa del Giocondo, [41] [42] [43] a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The famous "Mona Lisa smile" is an excellent example of applying ...
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
The portraits of Vallotton featured both precision and a certain cold realism. He painted the celebrated American writer and art patron Gertrude Stein the year after Pablo Picasso made his Portrait of Gertrude Stein, and depicted her as seemingly without emotion. One of his late portraits, The Roumanian in a Red Dress (1925) caused a minor ...
Neel's subject matter changed; she went from painting portraits of ordinary people, family, friends, strangers, and well-known art critics to female nudes. The female nude in Western art had always represented a "Woman" as vulnerable, anonymous, passive, and ageless and the quintessential object of the male gaze. [5]
Of Eakins' later portraits, many took as their subjects women who were friends or students. Unlike most portrayals of women at the time, they are devoid of glamor and idealization. [69] For Portrait of Letitia Wilson Jordan (1888; image link), Eakins painted the sitter wearing the same evening dress in which he had seen her at a party. She is a ...
Barkley L. Hendricks (April 16, 1945 – April 18, 2017) was a contemporary American painter who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism.While he worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work took the form of life-sized painted oil portraits of Black Americans.