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Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico. Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.
The Lady of Shalott an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting, is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works. It depicts a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight and the predicament of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an ...
Such works were painted on wooden panels, but towards the end of the 15th century canvas began to be used as a support, as it was cheaper, easier to transport, allowed larger works, and did not require complicated preliminary layers of gesso (a fine type of plaster). Venice, where sail-canvas was easily available, was a leader in the move to ...
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey, known in Japan as Kakukaku Shikajika (Japanese: かくかくしかじか, "So-and-so, Such-and-such" [1]), is an autobiographical josei manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura.
Originally an unbroken feral horse, now primarily a word for the horses used in rodeo bronc riding events, where the horse tries to buck off a rider. [1]: 31 May describe any undisciplined horse, especially one that bucks. See also outlaw. broodmare A mare that is used for breeding. [8]: 75 broodmare sire See damsire. brothers-in-blood
Whaam! adapts a panel by Irv Novick from the "Star Jockey" story from issue No. 89 of DC Comics' All-American Men of War (Feb. 1962). [23] [24] [25] The original forms part of a dream sequence in which fictional World War II P-51 Mustang pilot Johnny Flying Cloud, "the Navajo ace", foresees himself flying a jet fighter while shooting down other jet planes.
A critic has noted that Manet's 'preliminary study shows her placed off to the right, whereas in the finished canvas she is very much the centre of attention.' Though Manet shifted her from the right to the center, he kept her reflection on the right.
A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, [1] or pump [2] (also known as a gym shoe [2] [1] or a sandshoe [1]), is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole. The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, [citation needed] there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s.