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Monday, June 21, 2010

The Sun In Art..... Happy Summer Solstice!

HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOW THE SUN AS BEEN PORTRAYED IN ART THROUGH OUT THE AGES: 




This relief from the Great Palace at Amarna depicts Akhenaten's worship of Aten, the light within the sun's disk.




Miro would often use the sun/star shape as a way of beginning a painting or drawing.