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An ancient oak stands at the centre of the painting, clearly damaged but still standing. The tree's branches, dark in silhouette, project into the largely overcast morning sky. Banks of cloud seem to form a dome above the tree. The crown of the tree is dead, and the top of its trunk and two truncated branches resemble a cross.
Bathing or Children Bathing is an oil-on-canvas painting in the collection of the Louvre Museum, which depicts landscape with children played naked on and around a boat on a body of water with a windmill in the distance. It is presumed to have been painted between 1655 and 1660.
Rather than painting landscapes from afar like traditional painters, 19th-century rural painters climbed or walked into forested areas for a close view of wooded scenes. Paintings of the sous-bois, evoking the trees and grassy undergrowth, were often made vertically on canvas, as opposed to horizontal views of sweeping landscapes.
According to one poll, the painting is the second most popular in Russia behind Bogatyrs by Viktor Vasnetsov. [5] Shishkin's similar paintings are the Forest in Spring (1884) and The Sestroretsk Forest (1896). It is believed that Shishkin painted the pine trees near Gorodomlya Island, which is located on Lake Seliger. [6]
A lookout at Grand Lake now marks the site of the painting with a plaque that notes the significance of Thomson's work and depicts the painting alongside a photograph of the scene from the 1970s, before the tree fell. The painting was the inspiration for Lone Pine Sunset by author and artist Douglas Coupland, an installation located at ...
An Oak Tree. An Oak Tree is a work of art created by Michael Craig-Martin in 1973, and is now exhibited with the accompanying text, originally issued as a leaflet. [2] The text is in red print on white; the object is a French Duralex glass, which contains water to a level stipulated by the artist and which is located on a glass shelf, whose ideal height is 253 centimetres with matte grey ...
Cubist Landscape is an oil painting on canvas in horizontal format with dimensions 97 cm × 130 cm (38 in × 51 in), signed and dated Alb Gleizes, 14, lower right.. Executed in a Cubist style, the work is notable in its fusing of foreground and background, the multiple perspective—also called simultaneity or multiplicity, [3] successive views at various moments in time of the elements—the ...
Tree Without Leaves (落葉樹, Rakuyōju, lit. "Deciduous Tree") is a 1986 Japanese autobiographical [ 3 ] drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō . Plot