Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Knees and Arms, with footnotes # 130
Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger. — died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined…
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01 Marine Painting – Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s Leaving Port, wth Footnotes, #333
Edward Henry Fletcher was born in Hammersmith on the 23rd July 1857. He was the son of a Bengal river pilot, and having spent his early years in India, the family returned to England while he was still a boy. He was educated at the Christ’s Hospital and later at the Chelsea School of Art.…
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This Day in History, September 8, Paris was attacked by Joan of Arc. 38 Artists Embedded in her Military Campaign, With Footnotes
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries. The following works cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. They represent portrayals that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Winifred Knights’ The Deluge, with Footnotes – #193
You can see Noah’s Ark in the distant right while figures in the foreground scramble for higher ground. Steely gray water fills up the scene and dulls the landscape; keep in mind that this was painted shortly after the end of the First World War when Britain was still recovering. Art historian Georgina Coburn writes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christina Robertson’s Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova, with Footnotes. #133
Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia’s largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nabil Nahas’s COLOR BLIND, with Footnotes, #53
Lebanese artist Nabil Nahas has firmly established himself as a pioneer of abstraction through his unique use of color, texture and complex composition to create spellbinding canvases. Nahas received his MFA from Yale University in 1973, and although formally trained in Western painting, his work is inspired by a multiplicity of sources including nature and the geometric…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Paul Guiragossian’s Mother and Child in Mandorla, with Footnotes, #48
Child in Mandorla by Modern master Paul Guiragossian represents the artist’s quest to find harmony in both his works and his life. Seeking a balance between an expressionist touch that references reality and chromatic elements that express emotional movement and a new reality, the present work shows a deep precision in his brushstroke and composition,…
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01 Marine Painting, Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s On the Thames at Blackwall, with Footnotes, #332
Blackwall is a locale in East London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also forms part of the Port of London and the conservation area of Coldharbour. Blackwall’s name presumably derives from the colour of the river wall, built in the Middle Ages with its stairs. It was known as Blackwall by at…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Jack Lestrade’s Venice, with footnotes. #99
Jack Lestrade was born in South West France, in Gascony, in 1932 He has always been attracted to traveling to special places to do what he likes the most, painting. Self-taught, he spent five years in Canada and more than forty years in the United States of America. He became well established as an internationally respected…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Conor’s MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, with Footnotes. #126
William Conor OBE RHA PPRUA ROI (1881–1968) was a Belfast-born artist. Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s. His artistic talents were recognized at the early age of ten when a teacher of music noticed the merit…
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01 Marine Photograph – Kasia Derwinska’s He promised to come back, with Footnotes, #331
Melancholy: The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sea Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as…
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05 Paintings, The amorous game, The Unequal Lovers, Part 76 – With Footnotes
The theme of unequal lovers has a long literary history, but in the visual arts it most often appeared in prints, usually accompanied by a moralizing inscription. The theme took two different forms, that of an old woman soliciting a handsome young man, and, more commonly, an old man soliciting a pretty young woman. Here…
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03 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – Ports of Call, with Footnotes
Palazzo donn’anna, in the background, is a historical residence palace in naples, italy Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria — 1942 in Naples) was an Italian painter. He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy,…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nasser Ovissi’s Thorses, with Footnotes, #47
Nasser Ovissi is an American-Iranian painter whose work is characterized by stylized figures of Arabic women and horses. Set amidst geometric patterns and decorative elements, his figures seem to merge into and out of the space behind them. “My work is dedicated to the beauty of life and I hope those who experience my work…
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05 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian/Roman legend, Ceri Richards’ Rape of the Sabines, with footnotes #24
The theme of the rape of the Sabine women, taken from Roman legend, was a recurring subject in academic history painting. The story of the abduction of the women of the Sabine tribe by the men of Rome in order to populate the city presented a theme through which Richards could further his interest in…
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03 Orientalist Paintings, Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes, #100
The title of this painting refers to the Arabic word analeim, meaning learned woman, which originally applied to professional female improvisers of songs and poems. By 1850, the term meant virtually any woman dancer. Their alluring dances, accompanied as shown here by musician playing a two-stringed cello. European travelers came to think of these dances…
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1 Religious Icon, Sano di Pietro’s Saint Margaret, with footnotes #16
Margaret is celebrated as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches on July 20 and on July 17 in the Orthodox Church. Her historical existence has been questioned. She was declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I in 494, but devotion to her revived in the West with the Crusades. She was reputed to have…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138
Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his…
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09 works, Today, August 28th, is Moses the Black’s day, his story illustrated #240
Moses the Black (330–405), also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian , and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. Moses was a servant of…
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