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25.7 cm × 37.9 cm (10.1 in × 14.9 in) The Great Wave off Kanagawa ( Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[ a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm ...
Abstract impressionism is an art movement that originated in New York City, in the 1940s. [ 1][ 2] It involves the painting of a subject such as real-life scenes, objects, or people (portraits) in an Impressionist style, but with an emphasis on varying measures of abstraction. [ 2] The paintings are often painted en plein air, an artistic style ...
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [ 1 ] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of ...
Peter Marshall, the cheery actor, singer and nightclub comedian who became one of America's best-known game show hosts on the long-running program "The Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981, died ...
The average purchase rate on a 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage is 6.76%. Purchase rates for Tuesday, August 20, 2024. 30-year fixed rate — 6.58%. 20-year fixed rate — 6.36%. 15-year fixed rate ...
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental or conceptual photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a ...
The logo of Firefox since June 2019, featuring a stylized orange fox surrounding a purple globe representing the Earth. The Firefox logo depicts an orange fox partially surrounding and overlooking a globe . While the initial design of the logo depicted a phoenix, it was changed to depict a fox after the name of the web browser was changed from ...
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author.