Homo Algus
French sculptor Sophie Prestigiacomo created a series of swamp creatures, Installed in the wetlands of the Séné Nature Reserve in Brittany, France. The sculptures, first made in 2012, are made with a metal frame covered only with mud + the seaweed which has a resemblance to skin after it dries. The sculptures change with the weather + with their temporary nature will return to the earth from whence they came , over time ...
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Finding Home in India: The Artistic Journey of Julia Usmanova India Through Russian Eyes
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Death of the Seated Nude & Death of the Standing Nude, 2018
Jay Senetchko, Born in Edmonton, Alberta, now living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Landscapes
UK Artist Stefan Orlowski, 1986
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Landscapes
UK Artist Stefan Orlowski, 1986
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Dame Laura Knight
In 1926, Dame Laura Knight traveled to the USA where she gained access to the Johns Hopkins segregated wards, creating a series of sketches of patients + nurses. While in Baltimore, she befriended Pearl Johnson, an African American worker at the hospital. Johnson introduced Knight to the early American civil rights movement, bringing her to local lectures + concerts, prompting Knight to famously write that there was "a whole world of beauty" to explore in "Negro life" in America.
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Dame Laura Knight
In 1926, Dame Laura Knight traveled to the USA where she gained access to the Johns Hopkins segregated wards, creating a series of sketches of patients + nurses. While in Baltimore, she befriended Pearl Johnson, an African American worker at the hospital. Johnson introduced Knight to the early American civil rights movement, bringing her to local lectures + concerts, prompting Knight to famously write that there was "a whole world of beauty" to explore in "Negro life" in America.
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Beulah
Portraits of Romany Gypsy woman Freedom (Freda) Smith by Dame Laura Knight. .
"To say she was beautiful is not enough, apart from perfection of the mould she bore the mark of tragedy as well.”
Knight befriended the Romany community making daily visits to the settlements to represent their lives through painting. She visited daily for several months during the 1930s
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