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Margaret D. H. Keane (born Margaret Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups.
Femme au Chien (English: Woman with dog) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted in 1962. It is a portrait of Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline Roque , and their dog Kaboul, an Afghan Greyhound.
The Woman With A Dog belongs to Fragonard's Figures de Fantaisie (Fantasy Figures) series, with artworks often painted within an hour. While some elements such as the hairstyle, pearls, or the blue and pink colors correspond to the Rococo style, the dress itself is in a 16th/17th-century style, and has been compared to Rubens' portraits of Marie de Médici or Anne of Austria.
A dog, when included in an allegorical painting, portrays the attribute of fidelity personified. [12] In a portrait of a married couple, a dog placed in a woman's lap or at her feet can represent marital fidelity. If the portrait is of a widow, a dog can represent her continuing faithfulness to the memory of her late husband. [11]
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
Saints Ahrakas and Oghani as dogheads (dogfaces to a degree, as the hair is human); 18th-century Coptic icon. Long before modern comics and animation, dog-headed people (called cynocephalics, from Greek κυνοκέφαλοι (kynokephaloi), from κύων-(dog-) and κεφαλή (head)) have been depicted in art and legend in many cultures, beginning no later than ancient Egypt.
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In Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, Jews are depicted with mouse heads, while Americans have dog heads, Germans have cat heads, and the French have frog heads. Doghead is a villain in the comic book Ghost Rider. Dog-headed creatures appear in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.