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Depictions of tobacco smoking in art date back at least to the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, where smoking had religious significance. The motif occurred frequently in painting of the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age, in which people of lower social class were often shown smoking pipes. In European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, the social ...
Self-Portrait with Cigarette (Norwegian: Selvportrett med sigarett) [2] is an 1895 painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.Munch's use of the cigarette and physical decay as a rejection of societal values aroused controversy following the self-portrait's 1895 exhibition.
In 1887–88, van Gogh painted two more paintings with skulls, the only other works of his (besides a drawing from the same period) to use skulls as a motif. [2] The work measures 32 by 24.5 centimetres (12.6 in × 9.6 in). It is considered a vanitas or memento mori, at a time when van Gogh himself was in poor health.
Man with a Pipe is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 93.7 × 65.4 cm (36.5 by 25.75 inches), signed JMetzinger lower right. The work represents a man sitting at a table upon which is placed a mug of beer.
Conisbee, Philip. “An Introduction to the Life and Art of Georges de La Tour,” in Philip Conisbee (ed.), Georges de La Tour and His World, exh. cat. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum 1996, pp. 13–147. David, Jasper. "The Work of Art as Religious Enactment: Georges de La Tour's The Repentant Magdalene".
The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time smoking was new and controversial. [3] Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke. [4]
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The Reunion – smoking and drinking, camaraderie; Riding the Goat – Masonic initiation; Sitting up with a Sick Friend (1905) – poker, gender relations; Stranger in Camp – poker, camping; Ten Miles to a Garage – travel, car trouble, teamwork; A Waterloo (1906) – poker (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff) [7]