Flower-and-bird painting is one of three major genres of ... Wu Changshuo (1844–1927), “Red Plum” (1924), hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, 61 × 33 1/8 inches (collection of Tianjin ...

What can a flower — or a painting of a flower — do when you ... and yellow — in a thin white frame. A long scroll of tiny thumbnail images showing the changes in Mondrian’s painting ...

To go to The Scroll, which was your undergraduate thesis project: It is a manuscript painting. It is horizontal ... have used to paint a throne or a flower. It occurred to me—this is something ...

The Wiltshire-based artist has been observing and painting nature for her whole life ... And of course implicit in any cut flower, she continues, is “that small window of perfection before ...

“As I’m painting, I’m truly inside the flower. I don’t see the edges of the canvas. I’m fully immersed and present within the flower—it contains me.” Bickmore’s subject matter ...

The second move, this one artistic but no less momentous, was that Casteel, 35, began painting pictures of flowers ... Hill’s next group of flower paintings — soft, sprightly renderings ...

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The still-life watercolour was painted when Adolf Hitler was in his mid-twenties, and sold by his Jewish art dealer Samuel Morgenstern, who was later sent to the Lodz Ghetto This 1912 still life ...