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It presents a clear and nuanced picture of girlhood in art from the 15th century through to the mid 20th century. Topics such as beauty, status, faith, power, authority, love, loss, and family provide a fascinating insight into the pictorial and thematic characteristics of girl portraits.
30 kwi 2019 · Portrait of Sally Mann. Photo by Annie Leibovitz. Sally Mann's made poetic photographs explore the most fundamental themes of the human condition: family, nature, desire, death, and storytelling.
Many of the photographs show typical childhood activities such as reading the newspaper funnies, playing dress up, vamping, sleeping and playing board games as well as skinny dipping. But some seem to suggest and explore darker themes such as loneliness, insecurity, sexuality, injury and death.
31 lip 2012 · Four-hundred and fifty unclothed women are arrayed on the floor around the information booth in New York's Grand Central Terminal as they are photographed by artist Spencer Tunick as part of a ...
16 mar 2024 · Van Gogh painted no fewer than thirty-five self-portraits and so became arguably one of the most recognizable faces in Western art. This exhibition will feature Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist (1887), which is on loan from Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Young woman playing a virginal. by Catharina van Hemessen. painting by Catharina van Hemessen (Museum: Wallraf-Richartz Museum) Credit: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. More: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19186181.
This painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Jan Fyt depicts spoils of the hunt: the lifeless body of a hare surrounded by dead birds. These elements are also conventions of memento mori still...
