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When Monet came back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the death of his beloved wife, Alice, in 1911 he made some radical changes in his approach, namely in the scale of the canvases, they were monumental in scale, most measuring about 2 m square. He also changed his palate and used brilliant spots of color to suggest the flowers. Monet was a painter of impressions to the end. His last 30 years of painting devoted to the depiction of light and reflection on his pond. The depths beneath the surface of the water and the space behind the picture frame were of utmost importance to him, and he finally dispensed with frames altogether so his paintings could become a continuum of the world around him. His avant garde approach on his extraordinary use of paint and color began the trail for subsequent art movements. His contemporary Paul Cezanne became affiliated with post Impressionism on re. Matisse, who had studied Monet, became the first of the Expressionist artists at the last census. In 1992 the collection exceeded 3.5 million specimens. It is perhaps best known for its extensive holdings of carnivorous since of which dire wolves canIs Styris, saber toothed cats, Smilodon Fate, Alice and coyotes canIs low trends predominate among the 60 plus species of mammals. Asphalt is a superb preservative that protects small and delicate fossils such as hollow bird bones. As a result, our collection of fossil birds is one of the world's largest. Although historic collectors focused on large mammals like Sabretooth, cats, skulls and grounds Laughlin Bones, the recent excavations spend a lot of time recovering the smaller fossils. Nearly all of the plants invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles and small mammals are known on Lee from these recent collecting efforts, painted in bold and highly contrasting colors, the assumption of the virgin oil painting depicts the miraculous raising of Mary, Mother of Jesus into heaven, bidding her farewell on the ground. Below are the apostles who reach up towards Mary's figure as it's lifted up by angelic cherubs. Amidst the clouds. The elderly male personification of God peers down at Mary from the golden light of heaven as an angel beside him carries a crown to present to marry. The entire painting stands at 22 ft high, and it is said to be the most famous painting of Mary's assumption that was ever created in 1962 when Mel Ramos portrayed the Adam, also known as the Mighty Mite in the grand tradition of oil painting, such superheroes were still considered subversive, corrupting agents on America's youth Onley. Eight years earlier, the comic industry, bowing to congressional pressure, had agreed to police itself, assuring that in their stories, crime and criminals would be punished and good triumph over evil. Here, Ramos is. Adoption of the flat colors associated with comics is evident, although in actuality his paint handling is precise. The Adam was among many superheroes he depicted, including three iconic Green lantern and Superman. In this large canvas, the Adam, whose power lay in his ability to diminish in size even to the atomic level, struggles against a carnivorous Venus flytrap. Playing off this concept of scale, Ramos gives his tiny specimen a monumental portrayal. With billboard like appeal. The combination of subjects on the obverse and reverse is thought provoking because one is mythological, on the other reflects fifth century BC Athens In its mythological prehistory, Athens was attacked by the Amazons, a tribe of warrior women whose homeland lay beyond the black Sea. Sisi is the legendary king of Attica, fought against the invaders and married and type E the Amazon Queen. The iconography here brings an event of the distant past into the reality of the present, composed of sheets of layered plywood roughened by scoring, cutting, burning and staining. Loma Prieta is a massive sculptural object in creating such a large piece. And would Dennis Leon addressed the process of making it and underscored the object as the lasting record of his engagement even struggle with the material? Loma Prieta was started in his Oakland studio about two weeks before the big earthquake of October 17th, 1989. Since the sculpture was about how some rocks are formed by earthquake action, he respectfully named it after the earthquakes epicenter. Loma Prieta speaks of the power of nature and the forces that have shaped and reshaped the California coast for millennia.