Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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Edouard Verschaffelt, Fantasia 01 Orientalist Painting , with footnotes, 50
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the…
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Paula Bronstein; wo women taking a selfie 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #82
wo women were photographed taking a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach in Pattani, Thailand, on June 5th, during Eid al-Fitr festivities. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, and reflection for Muslims. Artsy Magazine Paula Bronstein is a photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is…
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Willy Aractingi, UNTITLED, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #13
Willy Aractingi, (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was born in New York in 1930, Aractingi was raised in Cairo, studied in Grasse, before finally settling in Beirut in the late 1940s. Aractingi undertook painting at a very young age. His works are often differentiated by his use of unique colour gradations, bold pigments and recurring use of nature. Aractingi’s…
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William Lentz Weiss; Boston Harbor Scene 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #257
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614,[2] Boston Harbor has been an important port…
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Philip Pearlstein, Seated nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67
Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art…
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06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes – #71
Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century… Please follow link for full post
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Ali Banisadr , STARDUST 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #11
Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art’s Top 100 Artists of 2011 Originally, from Tehran Banisadr moved with his family when he was twelve to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a…
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Jordanian artist taps absurd for ‘Camel in the Room’
With iconic imagery such as camels and locks, artist Raed Ibrahim explores the complexities of Middle Eastern identity, memory and the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Source: Jordanian artist taps absurd for ‘Camel in the Room’
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Edgar Yaeger, Trans Atlantic 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #256
Edgar Louis Yaeger (1904–1997) was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan. Yaeger studied at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder’s Society Purchase Prize. Subsequently, with the backing of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Traveling Scholarship, Yaeger embarked on a study tour of eight European countries, from France…
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05 Works, Today, March 10th, is Saint Quadratu’s Day, With Footnotes – #68
During a persecution against Christians,in the third century, a woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. The infant remained alive and was nourished in miraculous manner: a cloud appeared over him, dropping a sweet dew into…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian boar hunt 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the artists of their time, with footnotes #42
The Calydonian or Aetolian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honour her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in…
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Egypt’s Coptic philanthropist nominated for Nobel Prize
Visits to the garbage slums of Cairo transformed Magda Gobran — a businesswoman and an academic with a comfortable life — to Mama Maggie of the poor. Source: Egypt’s Coptic philanthropist nominated for Nobel Prize
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