_Arts

Day (1881) William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Day (1881) In ancient Greek city cults, Tyche (Τύχη, meaning "luck" in Greek, Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Day_(1881).jpg This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

Dawn Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Dawn Year: 1881 This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

The Naiads, 1881 Description: The Naiads, 1881 Date: 1881 Author: Gioacchino Pagliei (Italian, 1852-1896) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gioacchino_Pagliei_-_The_Naiads,_1881.JPG This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. Gioacchino Pagliei | Naiads | 1881 paintings | Mothers and daughters in art | Female nude in paintings | Shells in art | People in nature | Females with birds in art

In the Tepidarium Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Title: In the Tepidarium Date: 1881 Technique: Oil on canvas The tepidarium was the warm Roman bath. This painting shows a girl holding an ostrich feather and a strigel used for scraping the skin after soaping and oiling it. Alma-Tadema generally contrasted archaeologically accurate detail with aggressively modern figures and attitudes. He was also the most gifted exponent among Victorian painters in rendering exactly textures, surfaces and colours. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tepidarium_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_(1836-1912).jpg http://akorra.com/2010/03/06/top-20-beautiful-female-nude-artwork/ This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Cubism Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes." Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism and non-Western sources. The stylization and distortion of Picasso's ground-breaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Museum of Modern Art, New York), painted in 1907, came from African art. Picasso had first seen African art when, in May or June 1907, he visited the ethnographic museum in the Palais du Trocadéro in Paris. The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of p...