Category: amorous game
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Léon Zeytline, Champagne with a bitter taste 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Leon Zeytline, (1885 -1962), was a Russian painter who moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century. He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920’s, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the “Boulevard de l’Opéra” and “Les Champs Elysées”. His work is…
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David Manzur Londoño; LA SERENATA 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
David Manzur Londoño (born December 14, 1929) is a Colombian painter. His subjects include still lifes, mounted knights, and saints. Manzur was born in Neira, Caldas, Colombia. His father, Salomón Manzur, was a Lebanese businessman; his mother, Cecilia Londoño Botero, was Colombian. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in the Canary Islands,…
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Igor Semeko, Hug 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Igor Semeko was born in Belarus in 1961, and he studied at the Minsk School of Art from 1976 until 1980. He continued his art studies in the Academy of Art Republic Belarus, until 1986. Semeko specializes in decorative and applied arts in oil, and his works are characterized by rich textures and colors. He…
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Ezio Ricci; Old Couple 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Ezio Ricci, (Lucca 1885 – 1968), was born in Lucca, a pupil at the local Istituto di Belle Arti, Ezio Ricci showed an early talent for real life painting. In 1916 he was appointed professor of the decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, where he spent seven years working hard but…
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EUGEN VON BLAAS, FESTIVAL DAY, VENICE 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 – October 4, 1935) was a French painter, noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. He was renowned in Paris society due to his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. He also painted religious subjects in a contemporary setting. Pictures…
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Johnny Popkess, Holiday Romance 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Johnny Popkess was born in London, “I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state – as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of…
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Juarez Machado, Tango 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…
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Ralph Hedley, Jack ashore, old Whitby 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea. Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East…
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Marco Cornini, Untitled 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
The artist of desire, essentially, is Marco Cornini (Milan, 1966). Graduated in sculpture at Brera, his hands have almost exclusively modeled female figures for thirty years. In terracotta colored with acrylics, of medium size. Slim young women, long hair, all rather similar to each other, always very little dressed, sitting or half-lying, isolated in space, in a waiting position. Softly (very…
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Badri Narayan, Untitled 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Badri Narayan (22 July 1929, Secunderabad, India – 23 September 2013, Bangalore) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the…
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Jurij Frey, Seated 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always…
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Zhanna Kondratenko, Twain 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Zhanna Kondratenko: “Art has been rooted in my mind since early childhood. And since that time painting has become the special tool of learning, not only external world, but also the inner one. I believe we can find beauty and inspiration even in any trifle. I am interested in art with all its genres and…
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Jules Worms, Rendezvous 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
Jules Worms was born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers in the early years of the July Monarchy, a period in French history that is characterized by the cultivation of a thriving comic tradition in the visual arts. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, beginning in 1849 under Jean-Baptiste-Adolf Lafrosse, and made his debut at…
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