Khairpur
Khairpur , city (1981 pop. 61,447), SE Pakistan, in Sind prov. It trades in wheat, cotton, tobacco, and dates and is linked by road and rail to Karachi. Manufactures include textiles, carpets, refined sugar, and leather goods. The city was the capital of the former princely state of Khairpur, which was founded in 1783 and merged into Pakistan in 1955. It is a cultural center with fine historic buildings, notably the Faiz Palace, and with several colleges affiliated with Sind Univ.
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Casey, Edward. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps. Minneapolis...explores how landscape paintings and maps allow place, as...main parts. Part 1, "Painting the Land" (chapters 1...the recent appearance of landscape painting in Western culture...treatment of Northern Sung ...
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Sacred Earth: Daoism as a preserver of environment in Chinese landscape painting from the song through the Qing Dynasties.
Magazine article from: East-West Connections; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the Chinese garden, landscape painting can be understood...term for landscape painting (shawhui hua...this balance in their paintings, The Daoist beliefs...The Chinese term for landscape painting, shanshui...this balance in their paintings, and the concept...treatise on ...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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John Constable Liked Painting Landscape, But Looked to Sky.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 5/24/2004; 700+ words
; ...the sky in a full-scale landscape suggests that Constable himself...re not only very beautiful paintings, but must be counted among...feature of the "skying" paintings that, from our historical...century Abstract Expressionist painting. They were not, of course, conceived as abstract ...
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"Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings" The National Gallery of Art.(Exhibition note)(John Constable)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings...31, 2006 The large landscape paintings of John Constable...the most arresting landscape paintings of the nineteenth...Washington, each painting shown alongside a...day, Constable's landscapes made, if not a splash...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Louw creates landscapes of the soul; His paintings construct their own narratives in a way that can't be done in any other medium.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 10/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...studying famous landscape paintings of previous centuries...front of a landscape painting by Johann Louw - say...tones of the barren landscape, the relentless road...bleak and melancholic landscape suggests a tough task...Gouws talks of wounded landscapes and violence. ...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Impressive display of Impressionism ; The art museum brings summer to the fall with a display of more than 40 landscape paintings.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/21/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of Impressionism landscape paintings featuring masterworks...Hassam and others. "Landscapes from the Age of...survey of progressive landscape painting. With oil-laden...School of French landscape painting. In the Barbizon...final, dramatic paintings in the ...
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In Landscape Paintings, Kensett Found Clarity.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 11/5/2001; 700+ words
; ...1816-72), whose late paintings are currently the subject...our major 19th-century landscape painters were seen to be simply...of 19th-century American landscape paintings remained in storage...other 19th-century American landscape painters, Kensett was both...
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Feature: Chinese landscape paintings strike Belgian artists
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/12/2009; 664 words
; Feature: Chinese landscape paintings strike Belgian artists by Xinhua...Vanmechelen at an exhibition of Chinese landscape paintings held here Monday in Brussels...landmark building in Brussels, 10 huge landscape paintings by Chinese artist Xu Longsen...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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INSPIRED BY NATURE; ELLEN HAFFAR'S LOCAL LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY AT EUREKA CRAFTS.(Stars)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 7/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...fuel his creative fires. Paintings of the water garden in his...trees in the surrounding landscape are highlights of museum...shelving below Haffar's paintings; the 3-D pieces are present...conceptual dimension to the painting and, frankly, they don...own. Many of Haffar's paintings are ...
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Landscapes of Sport, Landscapes of Exclusion: The "Sportsman's Paradise" in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canadian Painting
Magazine article from: Journal of Canadian Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of late-nineteenth-century landscape paintings that were painted for members...appropriation of the environment as landscape. For this reason it can be argued...Atlantic Canada as the recreational landscape of these elite tourists-"a...
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landscape painting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
landscape painting portrayal of scenes...element in another kind of painting. Early Landscapes In the West, the concept of landscape grew very slowly. Nature...As a result landscape painting as an independent art was...the Hellenistic pastoral paintings of antiquity to the ...
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Art: Landscape Painting
Book article from: American Eras
...School. Landscape painting became the first major...unspoiled American landscape. Far from being “ pure landscape ” artists...often infused their paintings with moral and literary...later immortalized in paintings such as The Rocky...grandeur of the western ...
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Landscape in the Arts
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...prominent elements in a painting that coordinate the...understanding of the idea of "landscape." The early nineteenth...acceptable category of painting by the academy equal...visual diversity of the paintings that form this visual...not any discussion of landscape painting is ...
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watercolor painting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...oil and also to the paintings produced by this process...pigment, watercolor painting had achieved a high...The oldest existing paintings, found in Egypt...particular colored landscape drawings in a manner...technique of complete painting. This technique became...mostly for landscape ...
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Hudson River School of Painting
Book article from: American Eras
...to find a style of painting that would deliver...x2019; s later paintings were poetically sjuggestive landscapes which reconciled to...thus brings to his painting a particularly American...theory the American landscape, as panited by American...Cole ’ s paintings, which drew ...
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