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  • can be made from any material, including wood, canvas, plaster, or regular walls of glass or aluminum. The roof, however, must be of organic material ...
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  • the viewer's eye into the center of the canvas. In his early works, particularly versions of village life in Brittany, showing dancers (c ...
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  • his career. Marciano was knocked down to the canvas only twice in his professional career. The first occurred in his first championship bout, against ...
    19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
  • subject, extending outside the frame of the canvas. In "View of the International Exhibition", soldiers relax, seated and standing; ...
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  • for its breadth and unity, its vast canvas includes 580 characters, many historical, and others fictional. Its depiction of the battle scenes ...
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  • thumb|200px|Gypsy Fortune Teller. 1841. Oil on canvas. Winner of the 1841 Silver Medal at the Imperial Academy of Arts.]] In 1841, the epic poem ...
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  • Feszty and assistants' vast (over 8000 m²) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary, now displayed ...
    20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
  • In 1899, White's son donated the oil-on-canvas painting to the U.S. Senate, where it has hung since. The slave was not named, however, until ...
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  • 200 px|Vincent Van Gogh, Potato Eaters (oil on canvas, Nuenen, April 1885)]] By the seventeenth century, the potato had become firmly established ...
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  • right|250px|Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Oil on canvas by Osip Braz, 1898. From the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.]] Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ...
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  • By incorporating watercolor techniques into canvas painting, American artists not only re-popularized the medium but continued a long tradition ...
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  • landscape of the people of India: a canvas for disease gene exploration."] Journal of Genetics 87(1) (2008): 3-20. Retrieved August 14, 2020. ...
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  • Tacitus has been and “paints on a far wider canvas,” suggesting that his “geographical, ethnological” and sometime “scientific digressions” ...
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  • the Spanish Civil War—Guernica. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war. Asked to explain its symbolism ...
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  • effects abstract expressionists had created on the canvas. Though many of his poems also speak to the ways in which he felt the emotional power of painting ...
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  • Jouett (1788-1827) after Ary Sheffer, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the U.S. National Portrait Gallery, gift of the John Hay Whitney Collection.]] ...
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  • *Jeans—or other sturdy, close-fitting trousers made of canvas or denim, designed to protect the legs and prevent the trouser legs from snagging ...
    23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
  • Battle of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner (oil on canvas, 1822–1824) shows the last three letters of the famous signal, "England expects that every ...
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  • of 1569, by Jan Matejko, 1869, oil on canvas, 298×512[[centimetre|cm ... ]—The Fall of Poland," oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1866, 282×487cm ...
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  • short stories, Prus decided to employ a broader canvas. Between 1886 and 1895, he completed four major novels on great societal questions. Perennial ...
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