_Arts

Bathing Girl by H.W. Bissen, 1888 Description Bathing Girl by H.W. Bissen, 1888 Exhibit in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Dantes Plads 7, Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum permitted photography without restriction. This artwork is now in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago. Date 12 May 2012 Source http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Author Daderot Camera location . Permission Public Domain / CC-Zero Licensing This work has been released into the public domain by its author. This applies worldwide. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication . The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. ...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams (1957- )

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history. - André Malraux (1901-1976)

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard (1937- )

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss ? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... - Dawn French (1957- )

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. - Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback Description The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback Artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766) Date 1758 Medium ink and color on silk Dimensions Height: 322.5 cm (127 in). Width: 232 cm (91.3 in). Current location Palace Museum References Pamela Kyle Crossley (1999) A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, University of California Press, pp. 272-276 ISBN: 9780520234246. Source/Photographer MondoMostre Licensing 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 less. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/ From http://joeungul1.blogspot.com/

Luncheon on the Grass Author/Artist Édouard Manet (1832–1883) Title French: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe "Luncheon on the Grass" Description French: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe "Luncheon on the Grass" Date 1863 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 208 × 264 cm (81.9 × 103.9 in) Current location Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France References Joconde database: entry 000PE003916 Source/Photographer wartburg.edu Permission Public Domain Licensing 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 less.

Daughter Author Ilya Repin (1844–1930) Title . Description English: Dragonfly. Portrait of Vera Repina, the artist's daughter. Oil on canvas. 111 × 84,4 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Español: La libélula. Retrato de Vera Repina, hija del artista. Óleo sobre lienzo. 111 × 84,4 cm. Galería estatal Tretiakov, Moscú. Русский: Стрекоза. Портрет Веры Репиной, дочери художника. Холст, масло. 111 × 84,4 см. Государственная Третьяковская галерея, Москва. Date 1884 Medium Oil paintings Current location Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Source/Photographer http://dhl.hlhl.net/dhl/asp/imageManage/image81bb.html?url=art/oil&name=Repin&number=007&total=21&chName=列宾 Permission Public Domain Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/