Sentences with phrase «19th century icons»

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Today the dodo bird is an icon of extinction and the mammoth a giant of de-extinction prospects, but during the 19th century there were people that believed the dodo bird was a myth and that mammoths would be discovered still alive in the unexplored reaches of America.

An exceptional exhibition Russian Icons: Spirit and Beauty, comprising a collection of forty Russian and Greek icons dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries, will be staged by Jan Morsink Ikonen of Amsterdam at Trinity House, 50 Maddox Street, London W1S 1AY, from Saturday 22 November to Thursday 27 November Icons: Spirit and Beauty, comprising a collection of forty Russian and Greek icons dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries, will be staged by Jan Morsink Ikonen of Amsterdam at Trinity House, 50 Maddox Street, London W1S 1AY, from Saturday 22 November to Thursday 27 November icons dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries, will be staged by Jan Morsink Ikonen of Amsterdam at Trinity House, 50 Maddox Street, London W1S 1AY, from Saturday 22 November to Thursday 27 November 2014.

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

The beautifully carved wooden houseboats, which are area icons, date to the 19th century, when they shielded British officials from the subcontinent's penetrating summers.

Meanwhile, other examples of woodblock prints can be seen at Lady Lever Art Gallery in the autumn, where works owned by local collector Frank Milner reveal the celebrities, sports champions, fashion icons and villains of 19th century Japanese culture.

The 20th - century modern and contemporary galleries are larger, more flexible rectangular spaces, and their contents will undoubtedly surprise visitors who expect the collection to concentrate on 19th - century icons.

In her signature painted and photographic portraits of family, friends, lovers, and pop - culture icons, Thomas draws on and deconstructs 19th - and 20th - century traditions of portraiture, replacing the ubiquitous white female nude with voluptuous African American women.

His work was then based on long established styles and subjects favored by such European Modernists as Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, as well as on kitschy icons of 19th - century American painting such as Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851).

WEATHERFORD GALLERY: 1200 Second Ave. «Icons: Windows into Heaven,» painted 18th - and 19th - century wooden panels made for holy use in churches, at home or while traveling.

Over the course of her trailblazing artistic career, Mickalene Thomas has drawn inspiration from prolific artists and pop culture icons alike, from 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson to Edouard Manet's Odalisque figures of the 19th Century.

Which is why Katz and Ward tried to give an art history lecture, working their way through the show, slide by slide, starting with 19th - century icon Walt Whitman and a racy painting of boxers by Thomas Eakins.