Portal:Visual arts/Featured picture

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An archive of former featured pictures at Portal:Art (prior to the shift in coverage to the broader field of the arts) and selected pictures at Portal:Visual arts.

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[edit] The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble

John Nash, The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble (exhibited 1922), Tate, London

[edit] 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.

[edit] Savoy Vase

The Savoy Vase, also known as the Aalto Vase, is a piece of glass art created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino Marsio. It was displayed for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.

[edit] I and the Village

Marc Chagall, I and the Village (1911), Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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[edit] Carceri d'Invenzione

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione (1745)

[edit] Twilight in the Wilderness

Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Cleveland Museum of Art

[edit] 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)

[edit] The Musician

Tamara de Lempicka, The Musician (1929), Private collection

[edit] Horse jumping (Muybridge)

Eadweard Muybridge was one of the first photographers to use multiple cameras to capture motion.

[edit] Makonde carving

Makonde carving. c. 1974.

[edit] Soft Bathtub

Claes Oldenburg, Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version. 1966. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

[edit] Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (c. 1825), Frick Collection, New York

[edit] St. John the Evangelist

Jacopo Pontormo, St. John the Evangelist (c. 1525), Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità, Florence

[edit] Rotative plaques verre

Marcel Duchamp, Rotative plaques verre (1920)

[edit] Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower

Robert Delaunay, Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower (1911-1923), Art Institute of Chicago

[edit] Great Sphinx

The Great Sphinx with Khafre's pyramid in the background. Giza Plateau, Cairo.

[edit] The Yellow Christ

Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ (1899), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

[edit] Sand mandala

Tibetan monks making a temporary sand mandala in the city hall of Kitzbuehel in Austria in 2002.

[edit] Untitled (Madge Gill)

Madge Gill, Untitled, ink on cardboard drawing by well-known British Outsider artist.

[edit] Family portrait

Max Beckmann, Family portrait, (1920), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège

[edit] Regatta at Cowes

Raoul Dufy, Regatta at Cowes, (1934), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..

[edit] Phoenix from Aberdeen Bestiary

12th century illuminated manuscript image of a phoenix from Aberdeen Bestiary.

[edit] The Burghers of Calais

Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais; 1888), Victoria Tower Gardens, London

[edit] 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.

[edit] Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson set in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Created 1970

[edit] Sand art

Intricate sand castle sculpture, approx. 10 feet high.

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