Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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Seif Wanly, Spanish Ballet Dancers 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2h
Seif Waly (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter, born Mohammed Seif al-Din Waly into an aristocratic family, of Turkish origin, in Alexandria, Egypt. He was introduced to modern art after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham…
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Eugen von Blaas, A STOLEN GLANCE 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #29
Eugene de Blaas, (24 July 1843 – 10 February 1932), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. He was born at Albano, near Rome, to Austrian parents. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He…
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Pascale Taurua, Ripped jeans 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
“As women, we know we want to be sexy. But is being sexy just about sex? Not really. It’s not even about how we walk or what we wear. It’s about our personality and how we say and do what we say and do.” Pascale Taurua Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected…
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Jamil Hamoudi 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15
“Calligraphy for the Arab artist was for centuries a major outlet of creativity: he employed it inventively and in endless modulations to express a powerful aesthetic impulse often associated with ‘spiritual’ feelings, largely because most of the phrases thus written were of a religious nature. The words were sufficient unto themselves as ‘content’, the beauty of their meaning being reflected…
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Tahia Halim (Egypt, 1919-2003) 02 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2g
Both works by the artist were executed in the 1960s during the artist’s Nubian period. Halim visited Nubia twice in the early 1960s, once with her friend and colleague Cleopatra Shahata in 1961 and again with a group of fifty academics and artists in 1962 on a trip organised by Tharwat Okasha, the then Minister…
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Steven Doyle, Rushing to get to prayers 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART, With Footnotes – 118
Buddhists monks hurrying to their prayers at The Dzong Paro Bhutan. More on this photograph Rinpung Dzong is a large dzong – Buddhist monastery and fortress – of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District, Bhutan. It houses the district Monastic Body and government administrative offices of Paro Dzongkhag. It is listed as a…
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Evgeniy Monahov, Young wolves 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 47 – With Footnotes
Evgeniy Monahov was born in Moscow, Russia in 1974, and developed a love for painting at a very young age. In 1996 he completed the first stage of his formal studies by graduating from the Moscow College of Art. Demonstrating a unique talent and advanced artistic skills, Evgeniy was invited to enroll in the prestigious Surikov…
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Fateh Moudarres, A Song from the Syrian Countryside 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2f
The present composition depicts the life of the simple peasants, showing the country bride and wedding party. In such a scene one might expect to see joyful celebration, but instead there is a palpable aura of sadness, as Moudarres reveals something of his feelings about suffering and helplessness of these women in the rural areas. More…
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CHARLES WYSOCKI, ROCKLAND BREAKWATER 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #144
The city of Rockland is located on the west side of Penobscot Bay in the Mid Coast region of Maine. Its harbor, long regarded as one of the finest east of Portland, was frequently used in the 19th century as a safe harbor during bad weather. It was less than ideally suited to this task, because…
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Edgar Degas, At the Mirror 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #28
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, preferring to be…
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Louay Kayyali, The Young Ka’ik Seller 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2e
Ka’ik Seller: Street vendor selling Ka’ik (bread with sesame seeds) Louay Kayali (1934–1978) was a Syrian modern artist. He was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz School where his work was first exhibited in 1952. He met Syrian artist Wahbi Al-Hariri there…
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Detlev Nitschke, A STROLL ALONG THE BOULEVARD 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
Detlev Nitschke (German, born 1935) is a German artist known for his picturesque scenes developed from plein-air painting into designs for calendars and maps. His work is heavily influenced by both the American Impressionists and his travels throughout Europe and Russia. Born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany, Nitschke studied lithography at Meisterschule Fur Druck & Graphik,…
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Thomas Saliot, Lips and tongues 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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Romina Ressia, The Woman & The Hen 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #27
A bedraggled hen is rescued from certain starvation by an old woman. The old woman leads a meagre existence, but willing and generously shares food and water with the hen. The hen, it turns out, is capable of laying crystal eggs which reveal within their shells visions of future disasters. The woman attempts to warn…
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