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Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is illustrated here by Hokusai's Red Fuji from his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji series.
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Matryoshka dolls, also known as Russian nested dolls or Babushka dolls, were seen as early as 1890. They are not a traditional Russian handicraft, although the concept of nested objects was familiar in Russia. The first set of dolls is said to have been made by a painter in the Abramtsevo estate inspired by a set of Japanese wooden dolls representing the Seven Gods of Fortune.
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The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a piece of glass art created by Finnish artists Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino Marsio. It was displayed for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his etchings of imaginary "prisons" as illustrated here by Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione.
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Frederic Edwin Church, whose Twilight in the Wilderness is shown here, was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, thought to date from between 220 to 190 BC, is one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Greek Hellenistic period. It now stands at the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase.
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John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823) hangs in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
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Buon secco fresco, as illustrated by a detail of Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512), is a challenging painting technique involving the application of watered-down pigment to wet plaster. Painters are forced to work quickly to apply the pigment before the plaster dries.
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Paul Gauguin's The Yellow Christ (1889) is a quintessential example of Cloisonnism, a post-Impressionism movement noted for its bold forms and dark contours. The painting now hangs in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in New York City.
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Sandpainting in the form of a temporary sand mandala, constructed by Tibetan Buddhist monks in the City-Hall of Kitzbuehel in Austria.
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Illustration detail of a phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary, a 12th century example of an illustrated manuscript.
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One of 12 casts of The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin (1888), located in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, England.
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Ansel Adams, whose The Tetons and the Snake River (1942, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming) is pictured here, is best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley.
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Sand art, as illustrated by this detailed, large-scale sand castle, has evolved from simple beach play into a mature art form with competitions that push the limits of what can be done with sand and water.
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Guidelines
Selecting an image
There is no formal nomination process for adding a new image to the selected images collection. Before adding an image, keep the following in mind:
- Images must be free, either public domain or freely licensed. Fair use images are not permitted outside of the article namespace (see Fair use policy criteria #9).
- Images should be of high quality.
- Images should be a useful means to point to Wikipedia content. Do not add an image that is not in use somewhere within a Wikipedia entry. To determine this, check the bottom of the image page itself, where you will find a list of File Links.
Suggest an image
Feel free to leave any suggestions for a selected image in this section. Comments are helpful.
Nominations:
If you are feeling ambitious, the instructions for adding an entry to the selected image collection are outlined below. Any questions or disagreements about the appropriateness of an entry should be discussed on the talk page.
Adding an image
- Go to Portal:Visual arts/Selected image/Layout and grab the layout template.
- Go to the next available subpage (Portal:Visual arts/Selected image/n+1 - where n is the number of the topmost image on this page, as it will be throughout these instructions).
- Paste the layout template into the subpage and fill in the appropriate fields.
- On this page, add the following text directly above the topmost selected image:
{{Portal:Visual arts/Selected image/n+1}}
[[Portal:Visual arts/Selected image/n+1]]
<hr/><br/>
- Go to the main portal page edit screen and find the following text. Look closely as there are other similar components on the page.
{{Random portal component|max=n|seed=29|header=''selected image''|
footer=More selected images...|subpage=Selected image}}
- Change the max attribute from n to n+1. Save and you're done! Thanks for the contribution.
