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Grimus. Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie. It was his literary debut . The story loosely follows Flapping Eagle, a young Native American man who receives the gift of immortality by drinking a magic fluid. Thereafter, Flapping Eagle wanders the earth for 777 years 7 months and 7 days, searching for his immortal ...
Grimus performing at Waves Vienna 2013. While studying in Cluj-Napoca, the members started out as the 5-piece rock band Revers. In 2006, after having suffered multiple changes in the lineup, Grimus released a demo album. Their song Solitude is declared Song of the Year 2006 by City FM Radio. By 2007 the band received invitations to play at most ...
Nautilus. (photograph) Nautilus (1927) Nautilus is a black-and-white photograph taken by Edward Weston in 1927 of a single nautilus shell standing on its end against a dark background. It has been called "one of the most famous photographs ever made" and "a benchmark of modernism in the history of photography." [1]
Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography ...
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of neutral grey ranging from black to white. [ 1] Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan, blue, or ...
Black Iris, formerly called Black Iris III, [1] [2] is a 1926 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. [3] Art historian Linda Nochlin interpreted Black Iris as a morphological metaphor for female genitalia. [4] [5] O'Keeffe rejected such interpretations in a 1939 text accompanying an exhibition of her work, in which she wrote: "Well—I made you take ...
Van Gogh's artistic transition reflected in his still lifes (1886–1887) Vase with Red Gladioli, 1886, Private collection (F247) This painting represents some of Van Gogh's early Paris still life, where he introduced brighter, contrasting color. Fritillaries in a Copper Vase, 1887, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (F213) This is an example of Van Gogh's ...
Pen and black ink on light cream wove paper 50.01 cm x 31.75 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art Teeny: 1938 Linoleum block print on paper 30.3 cm x 22.7 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art Romanian Blouse: Blouse romaine: 1938 Charcoal Canberra: NGA: Drawing of a Woman: Dessin d'une femme: 1944 Pen and ink on paper