Alicante, or Alacant, is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. The second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Community are located in this province. Alicante is bordered by the provinces of Murcia on the southwest, Albacete on the west, Valencia on the north, and the Mediterranean Sea on the east. The province is named after its capital, the city of Alicante.
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 â June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. Lawrence referred to his style as dynamic cubism , though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.
By GRACE GLUECK. AMONG the many isms of American art, the amorphous one known as Tonalism has a rather low profile. Almost a kind of anti-Impressionism, substituting muted hues and misty effects for the Impressionists' exuberant here-and-nowness of color and light, Tonalism expressed itself mainly in landscape.'A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion,'' Inness said. And despite the specificity of its title, his ''Spring Blossoms, Montclair, N.J.'' (1891), a careful color orchestration in which muted greens predominate, is more a meditation on the season than a rendition of a real place.