From the earliest known painted representation of the Highland dress, John Michael Wright's Highland Chieftain, all that can be learned is that a small cross-check, or "tartan," pattern was adapted to use in kilt, plaid, and hose about 1660.
Katia Bassanini, for instance, painted representations of famous paintings through history, including works by Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian, on acrylic press-on nails that will sell in the gallery for $150 each.
A painted cutout of a birdcage, worthy of a Sotheby's folk-art auction, hung over center stage, and painted representations of drapes framed the proscenium.
Close-ups of body parts, cropped and tight, hold my eye; they're not photographic – pure paint representations – but clearly closely observed.
And yet as we look from one to another of these painted representations of Venice by Canaletto and his peers and younger rivals, comparing various different treatments of the same scene, we sense – we know – that the catastrophe, the emasculation, has already happened.
He wanted to free painting from representation, and free art from expectations, but this was not without contradictions.
Although dealing with a near-identical biblical moment, the differences in the style of painting, the representation of Christ and the other protagonists, and the darkening of the chiaroscuro are striking.
In the 1940s Nicholson returned to landscape and still-life themes, often painting simplified representations of still-life motifs within otherwise largely abstract compositions.
He is recorded as having been among the first to paint a representation of Vimalakīrti, the Buddhist saint who became popular in China.
It was rebuilt with layers of wood and stone, and its interior ceiling and columns were painted with representations of Abraham, Mary, and Jesus.
