Portal:Visual arts/Selected picture/Archive

An archive of pictures at Portal:Visual arts (displayed in reverse chronological order) followed by former featured pictures at Portal:Art (prior to the shift in coverage to the broader field of the arts).

Portal:Visual arts

		Image	Introduction	Completion
6	Reply to Red	Reply to Red by Yves Tanguy (1943)	February 21, 2007	present
5	Creation of the Birds	File:Remediovaros.jpg Creation of the Birds by Remedios Varo	November 26, 2006	February 21, 2007
4	The Moat, Grange Farm, Kimble		October 17, 2006	November 26, 2006
3	Matryoshka dolls	Matryoshka dolls date from 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.	July 26, 2006	October 17, 2006
2	Savoy Vase		May 28, 2006	July 26, 2006
1	I and the Village	Marc Chagall, I and the Village (1911), Museum of Modern Art, New York City	March 14, 2006	May 28, 2005

Portal:Art

Title	Image
Carceri d'Invenzione	Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione (1745)
Twilight in the Wilderness	Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Cleveland Museum of Art
The Winged Victory of Samothrace	The Winged Victory of Samothrace, was created in 200 BC in commemoration of a Greek naval victory at Rhodes. (Paris: Louvre)
The Musician	Tamara de Lempicka, The Musician (1929), Private collection
Horse jumping (Muybridge)	Eadweard Muybridge was one of the first photographers to use multiple cameras to capture motion.
Makonde carving	Makonde carving. c. 1974.
Soft Bathtub	Claes Oldenburg, Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version. 1966. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds	John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (c. 1825), Frick Collection, New York
St. John the Evangelist	Jacopo Pontormo, St. John the Evangelist (c. 1525), Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità, Florence
Rotative plaques verre	Marcel Duchamp, Rotative plaques verre (1920)
Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower	Robert Delaunay, Graphic Champs de Mars: The Red Tower (1911-1923), Art Institute of Chicago
Great Sphinx	The Great Sphinx with Khafre's pyramid in the background. Giza Plateau, Cairo.
The Yellow Christ
Sand mandala
Untitled (Madge Gill)
Regatta at Cowes	Raoul Dufy, Regatta at Cowes, (1934), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..
Phoenix from Aberdeen Bestiary	12th century illuminated manuscript image of a phoenix from Aberdeen Bestiary.
The Burghers of Calais	Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais; 1888), Victoria Tower Gardens, London
The Tetons and the Snake River	Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River. (1942). Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the National Park Service.
Spiral Jetty	Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson set in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Created 1970
Sand art	Intricate sand castle sculpture, approx. 10 feet high.