The subject of the painting is a large tower. The scene is struck by low, angular evening light.

In the foreground below the tower are two small shadowy figures resembling those in future
works by Salvador Dalí. This painting is the most famous example of the tower theme whch
appears in severa

Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting by

American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery
of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings.l of de Chirico's
works. Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas

The painting has been described as a "masterpiece of melodrama", and is one of

the artist's earliest images depicting women in tragic situations, a theme to which he often
returned in the mid-1960s. It shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea. She is emotionally
distressed, seemingly from a romance.