"Hoffman to exclaim to his wife: ""…look, he's doing it… he's doing it!"" While recording ""Band on the Run"" in Lagos, Nigeria, Wings were invited to former Cream drummer Ginger Baker's ARC Studios in the nearby suburb of Ikeja. While Baker insisted to McCartney that they should record the entire album there, McCartney was reluctant and agreed he would spend one day there. ""Picasso's Last Words"" was recorded during that time and Baker contributed by playing a tin can full of gravel. Personnel per ""The Beatles Bible"". Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) ""Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"" is"
"came to an abrupt conclusion. After coming in from the cold-weather shoot of the glass painting, Pollock, who had been treated in the 1930s for alcoholism, poured himself a tumbler of bourbon whiskey after supposedly having been sober for two years. An argument between Namuth and Pollock ensued with each calling the other a ""phony"", culminating in Pollock overturning a table of food and dinnerware in front of several guests. From then on, Pollock reverted to a more figure-oriented style of painting, leading some to say that Namuth's sessions robbed Pollock of his rawness and made Pollock come to feel"
"so-called grades of portraits were offered, from the merely representational to the more expressionistic and the narcotics-assisted. Many of his paintings were annotated with mnemonics listing the drugs taken while painting a particular painting, even if this happened to be only a cup of coffee. He also varied the spelling of his name, signing himself ""Witkac, Witkatze, Witkacjusz, Vitkacius"" and ""Vitecasse"" — the last being French for ""breaks quickly"". In the late 1920s he turned to novel-writing, writing two works, ""Farewell to Autumn"" and ""Insatiability"". The latter, his major work, encompasses geopolitics, psychoactive drugs, and philosophy. In 1935 he was"
"he lost his lease on the Bowery in 1978. Indiana grew reclusive in his final years. He died on May 19, 2018, at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, of respiratory failure at the age of 89. One day before his death, a lawsuit was filed over claims that his caretaker had isolated him from family and friends, and was marketing unauthorized reproductions of his works. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like ""EAT"", ""HUG"", and, his best known example, ""LOVE"". In his ""EAT"" series, the word blares in paint or light bulbs"
"James has consumed sixteen glasses of wine and is severely inebriated. Miss Sophie, who has herself had four rounds of wine, still appears sober; she tells the very drunk James that she wishes to retire to bed. Hand in hand, they head to the staircase, at which point the closing lines of dialogue are uttered: Wylie is said to have written the sketch in the 1920s. Some sources indicate that Frinton performed ""Dinner for One"" on stage with Warden on Britain's seaside piers as early as 1945, paying royalties to Wylie until 1951, at which point Wylie died and Frinton"
"huge, sublime, misunderstood picture [...]. The color [...], far from losing its cruel originality in this new and more complete scene, is still bloody and terrible"". Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius is an 1844 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. A preliminary sketch of the painting that was given to Delacroix's student Louis de Planet is also kept in the museum. This large painting depicts the last hours of the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, as Delacroix admired the"
"Étant donnés Étant donnés (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas, French: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage) is Marcel Duchamp's last major artwork, which surprised the art world because it believed he had given up art for competitive chess which he played for almost 25 years, following a prolific art career. He made work with the Surrealists when he made ""The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even"" (also known as ""The Large Glass""). He made other very famous works like ""Fountain"" among others. This work is a tableau, visible only through a"
"decline rapidly owing to alcoholism and syphilis, which he reportedly contracted from Rosa La Rouge, a prostitute who was the subject of several of his paintings. On 9 September 1901, at the age of 36, he died from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at his mother's estate, Château Malromé in Saint-André-du-Bois. He is buried in Cimetière de Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometres from the estate. His last words reportedly were ""Le vieux con!"" (""the old fool""), his goodbye to his father, though another version has been suggested, in which he used the word ""hallali"", a term used by huntsmen"
"to the work, claiming that ""the picture is merely a work of art, and has nothing to do with drink or sociology."" L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the"
"appears to have fallen into a dissolute life of drink and the demand for his work started to fall off. Tragically over the latter part of his life he was often destitute and even bartered his sketches for drinks at his favourite watering holes like the Mitre Tavern. Gill's last commissions was given to him by the architect, Mr. Arthur Peck. On 27 October 1880, Gill was adding embellishments to the perspective view of a building. But according the report in The Sun his hands shook to such an extent that the architect mistrusted his fitness for holding a brush"
"Although he was never able to make another film after 1912 or stage another theatrical performance after 1923, he continued to draw, write to and advise younger film and theatrical admirers until the end of his life. By late 1937, Méliès had become very ill and Langlois arranged for him to be admitted to the Léopold Bellan Hospital in Paris. Langlois had become close to him, and he and Franju visited him shortly before his death. When they arrived, Méliès showed them one of his last drawings of a champagne bottle with the cork popped and bubbling over. He then"
"very last shillings he possessed on a pencil to continue sketching. Blake's last years were spent at Fountain Court off the Strand (the property was demolished in the 1880s, when the Savoy Hotel was built). On the day of his death (12 August 1827), Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series. Eventually, it is reported, he ceased working and turned to his wife, who was in tears by his bedside. Beholding her, Blake is said to have cried, ""Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to"
"Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius is an 1844 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. A preliminary sketch of the painting that was given to Delacroix's student Louis de Planet is also kept in the museum. This large painting depicts the last hours of the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, as Delacroix admired the Stoics and particularly Marcus Aurelius. The character is represented in the center of the painting as an old, sick man who grabs the arm of a"
"than fifty paintings by Roesen, which were presumably traded for lodging and for beer, the artist's favorite beverage. Roesen's last dated painting is from 1872, and his life after, as well as his date and place of death, remains unknown. Over three hundred still life paintings by Roesen have been recorded, of which only about two dozen are dated. While Roesen's paintings reveal a meticulous attention to detail in their precise arrangements and close brushwork, his subject matter, even down to specific motifs, did not change throughout his career. Sometimes he made near copies of paintings, but usually he merely"
"Maria della Grazie in Milan. It represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death, and shows the moment when Jesus has just said ""one of you will betray me"", and the consternation that this statement caused. The novelist Matteo Bandello observed Leonardo at work and wrote that some days he would paint from dawn till dusk without stopping to eat and then not paint for three or four days at a time. This was beyond the comprehension of the prior of the convent, who hounded him until Leonardo asked Ludovico to intervene. Vasari"
"L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Painted in 1875–76, the work portrays a woman and man sitting side-by-side, drinking a glass of absinthe. They"
"work, ""Practica de educación irreligiosa"" (1936), is listed in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. He was a close friend of the painter Fernando Leal, who portrayed him as one of the characters of his cycle of frescoes dedicated to ""Bolivar's Epic"". In one of his last interviews he said: ""I want to die smiling, as I expect to do soon, since I don't want to continue abusing life, especially when the doctors have taken all the fun away by forbidding me alcohol and women."" He died in Mexico City at the age of 100, one of the last survivors of the"
"Death and Fire Death and Fire, known in German as Tod und Feuer, is a 1940 expressionist painting by Paul Klee. It was one of the last before his death in June 29 of that year. In 1935 Klee started to suffer from scleroderma, which manifested itself with fatigue, skin rashes, difficulty in swallowing, shortness of breath and pain in the joints of his hands. Paintings during this period tended to be simpler and representative of the suffering he was going through. ""Tod"", the German word for death, is a common motif throughout the painting. It can be seen most"
"Graham was and how his life got out of control. The lessons of the man are still to be learnt – that lack of communication leads to violence in society."""" His last exhibition of paintings, ""Hokonui Moonshine Final Works"", opened the same night of his death. Hokonui Moonshine was illicit alcohol produced in the Hokonui Hills during the height of New Zealand's Temperance movement. Other series include Moffitt died at his home in Christchurch on Tuesday, 11 April 2006. While Moffitt's work was admired by his peers, it was only shortly before his death when he began to receive substantial"
"What the Water Gave Me (painting) What the Water Gave Me (""Lo que el agua me dio"" in Spanish) is an oil painting by Frida Kahlo that was completed in 1938. It is sometimes referred to as What I Saw in the Water. Frida Kahlo’s ""What the Water Gave Me"" was her biography. As the scholar, Natascha Steed, points out, ""her paintings were all very honest and she never portrayed herself as being more or less beautiful than she actually was."" With this piece she reflected on her life. Kahlo released her unconscious mind through the use of what seems"
"The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) The Last Supper ( or ""L'Ultima Cena"" ) is a late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. It is one of the western world's most recognizable paintings. The work is presumed to have been started around 1495–96 and was commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles,"
"Louis Tocque, Louis-Michel and Charles van Loo. He displayed religious paintings (""Saint Sebastien"", ""Last Judgment"", ""Ascension""), history paintings (""Lucretia and Brutus"", ""Death of Cleopatra"") and portraits (""Mignot, sculptor of the king"".) But his work for the Salon will earn him in 1763 violent criticism of Diderot after some praise on his ""Socrates on the Verge of Drinking Hemlock"" in 1761:""It looks like being painted a hundred years ago; but it is much older for the way than for the color. It looks like it's a copy after some ancient bas-relief. There reigns a simplicity, a tranquility, especially in the main"
"work, Nieto became exhausted and depressed. His sleeping was erratic, his mind began wondering, seeing things, speaking and acting unusual. He seemed to have an awareness of his life coming to an end. In the Mexican tradition of laughing at death with skull art he began to paint Calaveras (skulls) in the Nieto tradition of mentally taking apart the structural elements only to reassemble them in a different perception. His brief life ended on June 24, 1985. One of the last things he told Nancy was “Keep my paintings. Someday they will be very valuable.” Nancy Glenn-Nieto continues to paint"
"The Absinthe Drinker (Manet painting) The Absinthe Drinker (French: ""Le Buveur d'absinthe"") is an early painting by Édouard Manet, c.1859, considered to be his first major painting and first original work. Manet became a student in the studio of Thomas Couture from 1850 but grew to dislike his master's Salon style and thereafter set up his own studio in 1856. Little of Manet's earliest work survives and much may have been destroyed by Manet himself. ""The Absinthe Drinker"" is a full-length portrait of an alcoholic ""chiffonnier"" (rag-picker) named Collardet who frequented the area around the Louvre in Paris. Collardet is"
"work be installed and viewed after his death, Duchamp's widow Alexina Duchamp and his step-son Paul Matisse installed the work and made it available to the public at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969, a year after Duchamp's death. Étant donnés Étant donnés (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas, French: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage) is Marcel Duchamp's last major artwork, which surprised the art world because it believed he had given up art for competitive chess which he played for almost 25 years, following a prolific art career. He made"
"of his paintings were destroyed, while he is best known today for his portrait of the Duke of Alva, that was copied many times. The surviving ""last supper"" is still in the original frame with a Latin inscription around it with the words of Luke 22:21-23 which are translated as: ""But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me [is] with me on the table. And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should"
"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (), painted and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1882, is considered the last major work of French painter Édouard Manet. It depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris. The painting originally belonged to the composer Emmanuel Chabrier, who was a close friend of Manet. Chabrier hung it over his piano. The painting is currently in the Courtauld Gallery in London. The painting exemplifies Manet's commitment to Realism in its detailed representation of a contemporary scene. Many features have puzzled critics but almost all of them have"
"alternate Spanish name, ""Los Borrachos"" (The Drunks) or ""Los Bebedores"" (the drinkers), who are paying mock homage to a half-naked ivy-crowned young man seated on a wine barrel. The painting is firm and solid, and the light and shade are more deftly handled than in former works. Altogether, this production may be taken as the most advanced example of the first style of Velázquez. In 1629, Velázquez went to live in Italy for a year and a half. Though his first Italian visit is recognized as a crucial chapter in the development of his style—and in the history of Spanish"
"the positions of hands and loaves of bread can be interpreted as notes on a musical staff and, if read from right to left, as was characteristic of Leonardo's writing, form a musical composition. The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) The Last Supper ( or ""L'Ultima Cena"" ) is a late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. It is one of the western world's most recognizable paintings. The work is presumed to have been started around 1495–96 and was commissioned as part"
"His last composition from 24 March was a sketch for a statue of the ""genie"" in chalk on a blackboard. At night he had dinner with his friends Adam Oehlenschläger and H. C. Andersen, and he is said to have referred to the finished museum saying: ""Now I can die whenever it is time, because Bindesbøll has finished my tomb."" After the meal he went to the Copenhagen Royal Theatre where he died suddenly from a heart attack. He had bequeathed a great part of his fortune for the building and endowment of a museum in Copenhagen, and left instructions"
"Last Supper (Rosselli) The Last Supper is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painters Cosimo Rosselli and Biagio d'Antonio, executed in 1481–1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. On 27 October 1480 Rosselli, together with other Florentine painters, left for Rome, where he had been called as part of the reconciliation project between Lorenzo de' Medici, the ""de facto"" ruler of Florence, and Pope Sixtus IV. The Florentines started to work in the Sistine Chapel as early as the Spring of 1481, along with Pietro Perugino, who was already there. The theme of the decoration was a parallel between"
"Klee's pictures were included in an exhibition of ""Degenerate art"" and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis. Klee suffered from a wasting disease, scleroderma, toward the end of his life, enduring pain that seems to be reflected in his last works of art. One of his last paintings, ""Death and Fire"", features a skull in the center with the German word for death, ""Tod"", appearing in the face. He died in Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland, on 29 June 1940 without having obtained Swiss citizenship, despite his birth in that country. His art work was considered"
"Drunken Silenus (Ribera) Drunken Silenus is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera, produced in 1626 in Naples and now in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. The central figure is Silenus, lying on a cloth and offering a wine cup to the figure behind him. To the right is Pan, crowning Silenus with vines and surrounded by a shell (the symbol announcing his death) and a turtle (symbol of laziness). At the bottom right is a snake symbolising wisdom. Its first recorded owner was the Flemish merchant Gaspar Roomer - he definitely did not commission the work, since he first"