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unusual facts about Western art



Shirakabaha

The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan.

The Fall of the Damned

David Freedberg assessed this painting manner as the "most brilliant assemblages of lusciously naked flesh in Western art".


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Füreya Koral

Füreya Koral (12, June 1910 – 26, August 1997) was one of the first female Turkish ceramists whose work blended the elements of Islamic and Western art from the East with abstract and other influences from the West.

Gene Zesch

His work has also been displayed in special exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (United States) (1993), the Museum of Western Art (2004), and HemisFair '68 (1968).

Giuliano Pisani

In his book Giuliano Pisani takes us into the heart of one of the great masterpieces of Western art: the symbol-laden frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel.

Interpretatio Christiana

Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, 1960 and later re-editions

James Mollison

He is notable for establishing the Gallery and building on the collection that had already been assembled of mainly Australian paintings by purchasing icons of modern western art, most famously the 1974 purchases of Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock ($1.3m), and Woman V by Willem de Kooning ($650,000).

Kevin Red Star

Red Star’s works are the focal point of several important museum collections, including the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian; C.M. Russell Museum; Heard Museum; Denver Art Museum; Eiteljorg Museum; Southwest Museum; Whitney Museum of Western Art; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum; United States Department of State; and scores of others.

Le Bateau ivre

Ship of fools, an allegory in western art depicting a ship of madmen, who sail oblivious of their destination.

Maria Thins

For her help she received The Art of Painting, one of the finest, most mysterious and famous paintings in the history of Western Art.

Mosesbrunnen

With apparent Biblical authority, and the added convenience of giving Moses a unique and easily identifiable visual attribute (something the other Old Testament prophets notably lacked), it remained standard in Western art to depict Moses with small horns until well after the mistranslation was realized in the Renaissance.

Sammy Ofer

The paintings depict a kangaroo and a dingo, and are the first depictions of Australian animals in Western art.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

The Pearce Collections at Navarro College

The Pearce Western Art Gallery is home to original representational works of art by acknowledged masters of Western Art as well as recent original works by members of the National Academy of Western Art, the Cowboy Artists of America, and the National Sculpture Society, among others.

Woolaroc

Woolaroc is also a museum with a collection of western art and artifacts, American Indian material, and one of the largest collections of Colt firearms in the world.