Painted during World War II, these were possibly included in support of a campaign to gain equal rights at home and abroad for African American soldiers as a reminder of their contributions during the Civil War. In the last of Charles White’s three early murals, The Contribution of the ...
This important book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and following the war, in the years between 1852 and 1877. Author Eleanor Jones Harvey surveys paintings made by some of America's finest artists, including Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, Winslow Homer, and Eastman ...
From 1919 onward Miró lived alternately inSpainand Paris. He was one of the many artists who made their way from abroad to Paris during the first two decades of the 20th century. Most of these foreign artists elected to become French citizens after coming into contact with the exciting Frenc...
Women's fashion and attitudes were also reflective of the 1920s art movement; it was experimental and more revealing, as women's rights movements flourished and created change in society. Various art movements sprung up in the 1920s, and thematic changes were made to artistic mediums, like li...
craftsmen (手艺人),they need knives and gravers of various types to make complicated (复杂的) patterns.For complicated patterns,people first paste the pattern on the paper,and then use various kinds of knives to make it.No mistake can be made during the process otherwise the work w...
The Soviet art of war began to take shape during the Civil War and the military intervention of 1918-20 and the following years on the basis of using the experience of World War I and generalizing the combat operations of the Red Army. Its theoretical foundation is historical materialism and...
(Giardini) made off-season in the Giardini (municipal gardens) section of Venice, where the U.K.pavilionfor the Biennale was sited. He released his second commercial movie,Shame, in 2011. Its somewhat transgressive subject was the story of a man’s sex addiction. Again McQueen used ...
made. Several countercultural movements arose simultaneously with feminism in the 1960s. At this time the United States experienced social upheaval coming with the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, economic prosperity, the arrival of oral contraceptives, reforms in the Catholic Church, nostalgia...
This is the most recent painting on this list,and it shows the German bombing of the town of Guernica in the Basque region during the Spanish Civil War.The painting has that distinctive Picasso style,and its serious examination of the horrors of war made it an essentia...
She made “illustrated cue sheets from which they ran the lights and the videos.” She spoke about not having enough money to afford velcro to enclose the band, so she had to use staples. 11 years later, another 4-piece band looked like this- No staples here! U2, “Innocence & ...