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3 unusual facts about Oil on Canvas


Oil on Canvas

(The name of Barbieri's track is taken from the novel The Temple of Dawn by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima.)

Rain Tree Crow

It was the first time all four members of the band, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn and Richard Barbieri, collaborated on a project since the compilation of the 1983 live album Oil on Canvas.

The Very Best of Japan

The album was accompanied by a DVD release, which includes seven promo videos as well as the Oil on Canvas concert recorded in 1982.



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Abolhassan Etessami

In addition to architecture projects, Abolhassan Etessami left a series of oil on canvas paintings including Some ruins in Dowlat-Abad, A village home in Niavaran, and Pasteur's intercession for Napoleon, and some novels including The left alone man and The malicious Mohil-o-doleh.

Beach in Pourville

one of a series of oil-on-canvas works made by Monet that year in the small seaside resort of Pourville-sur-Mer (now part of the commune of Hautot-sur-Mer), near Dieppe in northern France.

Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches

Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches is a 1901 oil on canvas work by Scottish painter Joseph Farquharson.

Ernest Zobole

Zobole's paintings, originally oil on canvas, later switching to oil on board, reflected the industrial setting of the Rhondda Valleys.

Fabián de la Rosa

Fishermen's Huts on Balut Island, Tondo, oil on canvas, Private Collection, USA

Garçon à la pipe

The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.

Gerard ter Borch

1658, oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm (31½ × 29 9/16 in.) in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the cover of Marilyn Stokstad's second edition of Art History.

Green Wheat Field with Cypress

Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil on canvas painting by a Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.

Harriet Lane Levy

Henri Matisse, Corsican Landscape, 1899 oil on canvas; La Table au café (Café Table), ca.

Jean Carolus

One of his most celebrated works entitled La partie de billard sous Louis XV (A Game of Billiards under Louis XV), 1855, oil on canvas, 75 x 96 cm, can be seen at In Flanders Fields Museum.

Pietro Perugino

St. Sebastian Bound to a Column (c. 1500–1510) — Oil on canvas, 181 × 115 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil

Right and Left

Right and Left is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Winslow Homer.

Self-portrait in a circle of friends from Mantua

Self-portrait in a circle of friends from Mantua is an oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, produced between 1602 and 1604.

Sheldonian Theatre

The 32 oil on canvas panels originally painted by King Charles II’s court painter, Robert Streater, were removed and conserved.

Street in Venice

Oil on canvas, 46 cm × 37.5 cm, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Tanzio da Varallo

La fuga in Egitto, oil on canvas, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Samuel H. Kress Collection.

The Bride of the Wind

The Bride of the Wind (Die Windsbraut) (or The Tempest) is a 1913-1914 oil on canvas painting by Oskar Kokoschka.

The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute

The Grand Canal at the Salute Church (Italian: El Gran Canal en la Iglesia Salute) is an oil on canvas painting by Canaletto.

The Horse Fair

The Horse Fair is an oil on canvas painting by Rosa Bonheur, painted ca.

The Red Tower in Halle

The Red Tower in Halle (German: Der Rote Turm in Halle) is a 1915 oil on canvas painting by a German expressionist painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

The Totteridge XI

The Totteridge XI is an 1897 oil on canvas work by English painter Arthur Wardle.

Theodore Garman

One of the most popular paintings at The New Art Gallery Walsall, is his Summer Garden, South Harting (1944, oil on canvas, 66×76 cm).

Titus as a Monk

Titus as a Monk is a 1660 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, showing his son Titus in the habit of a Franciscan monk.

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361 is a historical painting (oil on canvas, signed in 1882) by the Swedish historical painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1851 – 1890).

View of Florence from San Miniato

View of Florence from San Miniato is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Thomas Cole.

White House at Night

White House at Night is an oil on canvas painting created on 16 June 1890 at around 8:00 PM in the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh, a mere six weeks before his death.

Yin Zhaohui

This oil on canvas painting was inspired by John Coplans’ “Self Portrait Fingers,” a series of photographs that show Coplan’s own hands in various sexually suggestive positions.