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Amedeo Modigliani, The Servant Girl, 1918, Oil on canvas, 61.0 cm x 152.4 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
It shows a young woman standing in a somewhat awkward position against a bluish-grey wall, with her hands solemnly folded in front of her. Is she waiting for her next assignment from her employer? Her gaze is haunting. Her eyes are gaping holes in her long, narrow face. Some have deemed it to signify a void within the artist, while others find it to be representative of a lost innocence. Nevertheless, many believe that, although eyes are supposedly windows to the soul, hers purposefully prevent onlookers from seeing inside her in order to know her better.
Belem Tower, c. 1514, Lioz stone, 30 m, Lisbon.
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Lisbon that played a key role in Europe’s Age of Discoveries, since it served both as a fortress and as a port from where Portuguese explorers departed to establish what would be the first European trade in history with China and India.
Vincent van Gogh, Café Terrace at Night, 1888, Oil on canvas, 80.7 cm × 65.3 cm (31.8 in × 25.7 in), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
This painting of colorful outdoor view is a picturesque work, the vision of a relaxed spectator who enjoys the charm of his surrounding without any moral concern. It recalls Van Gogh's mood when he wrote that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." The color is more profuse and the eye wanders along the steeped or dove-tailed edges of neighboring areas - irregular shapes fitted to each other like a jigsaw puzzle design. To divide this space for long into large object and background themes is difficult for the eyes; the distant and nearer parts are alike distinct. The yellow of the cafe plays against the blue-black of the remote street and the violet-blue of the foreground door, and, by a paradox of composition that helps to unify the work, at the strongest point of contrast the awning's blunt corner nearest to us touches the remote blue sky.
Jack Vettriano, The Singing Butler, 1992, oil on canvas, 71cm x 91cm, sold at auction in 2004 for £744,800.
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It depicts a couple dancing on the damp sand of a beach on the coast of Fife, with grey skies above a low horizon. To the left and right, a maid and a man hold up umbrellas against the weather.
Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, City of Arts and Sciences, 1998, Valencia, Spain.
It is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex, the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park.
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Hair Ribbon, 1965, Oil and magna on canvas, 121.9 cm x 121.9 cm, private collection.
Girl With Hair Ribbon was painted by Roy Lichtenstein during a period in which he was working with comics exclusively. In this painting the highly stylized beauty of the woman's face shows an overpowering pure femininity in the painting. However, a certain narrative quality also pervades the painting. The woman is looking out towards the viewer, with an expression that hints at longing, pensiveness, or perhaps even fear.
Eduard Riedel, Neuschwanstein Castle, 1886, Hohenschwangau, Germany.
Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany, commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.
Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa, Sultanahmet Mosque, 1609-1609, Ashlar, brick, 73 m x 65 m x 43 m, Istanbul.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii) is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A popular tourist site, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues to function as a mosque today and men still kneel in prayer on the mosque's lush red carpet after the call to prayer. The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I.
Paul Klee, Highway and Byways, 1929, oil on canvas, 20x25 cm.
This is the most important painting to come out of Paul Klee's trip to Egypt, from mid-December, 1929, to early January, 1930. He visited Luxor, Karnak, Thebes, Aswan, and Cairo. The journey was nearly as great an experience as the earlier one to Tunisia. He must surely have had a fairly clear idea of what he was looking for. It is noteworthy that certain works done long before the journey exhibit similarities to the works inspired by Egypt.