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An archive of pictures at
Portal:Visual arts (displayed in reverse chronological order) followed by former featured pictures at
Portal:Art (prior to the shift in coverage to the broader field of the arts).
Portal:Visual arts
Image
Introduction
Completion
6
Reply to Red
Reply to Red by
Yves Tanguy (1943)
February 21, 2007
present
5
Creation of the Birds
File:Remediovaros.jpg Creation of the Birds by
Remedios Varo
November 26, 2006
February 21, 2007
4
The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble
October 17, 2006
November 26, 2006
3
Matryoshka dolls
Matryoshka dolls date from
1890 . They are not a traditional Russian
handicraft although the concept of nested objects was familiar in
Russia . The first set of dolls is said to have been made by a painter in the
Abramtsevo estate inspired by a set of
Japanese wooden dolls representing the
Seven Gods of Fortune .
July 26, 2006
October 17, 2006
2
Savoy Vase
May 28, 2006
July 26, 2006
1
I and the Village
Marc Chagall ,
I and the Village (
1911 ),
Museum of Modern Art ,
New York City
March 14, 2006
May 28, 2005
Portal:Art
Title
Image
Carceri d'Invenzione
Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione (
1745 )
Twilight in the Wilderness
Frederic Edwin Church , Twilight in the Wilderness (
1860 ),
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Winged Victory of Samothrace
The Winged Victory of Samothrace , was created in 200 BC in commemoration of a Greek naval victory at
Rhodes . (Paris:
Louvre )
The Musician
Tamara de Lempicka , The Musician (
1929 ), Private collection
Horse jumping (Muybridge)
Eadweard Muybridge was one of the first photographers to use multiple cameras to capture motion.
Makonde carving
Makonde carving. c.
1974 .
Soft Bathtub
Claes Oldenburg , Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version.
1966 .
Hirshhorn Museum ,
Washington, DC
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable , Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (c.
1825 ),
Frick Collection ,
New York
St. John the Evangelist
Jacopo Pontormo ,
St. John the Evangelist (c.
1525 ), Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità,
Florence
Rotative plaques verre
Marcel Duchamp , Rotative plaques verre (
1920 )
Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower
Robert Delaunay , Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower (
1911 -
1923 ),
Art Institute of Chicago
Great Sphinx
The
Great Sphinx with Khafre's pyramid in the background. Giza Plateau, Cairo.
The Yellow Christ
Sand mandala
Untitled (Madge Gill)
Regatta at Cowes
Raoul Dufy , Regatta at Cowes , (
1934 ),
National Gallery of Art ,
Washington D.C. .
Phoenix from Aberdeen Bestiary
12th century
illuminated manuscript image of a phoenix from
Aberdeen Bestiary .
The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin ,
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais ;
1888 ), Victoria Tower Gardens,
London
The Tetons and the Snake River
Ansel Adams , The Tetons and the Snake River. (
1942 ). Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the National Park Service.
Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty by
Robert Smithson set in
Great Salt Lake, Utah . Created
1970
Sand art
Intricate
sand castle
sculpture , approx. 10 feet high.