Category: Portait of a Lady
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Arthur Breakspeare’s Resting, with Footnotes. #123
William Arthur Breakspeare (19 January 1856 – 8 May 1914) was an artist from Birmingham, England, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. In 1877, he moved…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Suzanne Fabry’s Autoportraits, with Footnotes. #193
This current work recalls classical depictions of female beauty, whilst also calling them in to question. The slight contortion of Fabry’s limbs suggests a certain artifice to the pose, whilst her direct gaze and the prominent positioning of her brush reinforce a sense of authority that pre-emptively rejects any attempt to perceive the sitter as…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Breakspeare William Arthur’s The Gypsy Girl, with Footnotes. #122
William Arthur Breakspeare (19 January 1856 – 8 May 1914) was an artist from Birmingham, England, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. In 1877, he moved…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Malcolm T. Liepke’s Three Moods, with Footnotes. #121
Malcolm T. Liepke. Largely self-taught, Malcolm T. Liepke paints in a style that synthesizes the work of other artists—John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, and James McNeill Whistler, among others—to create portraits that are both visually familiar and wholly unique. Liepke favors portraits of ordinary women in glamorous contexts, producing voyeuristic nudes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Youssef Nabil’s Ehsan Crying, with Footnotes. #120
Youssef Nabil (born 6 November 1972) is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Nabil started his photography career in 1992. In 1997, Nabil worked in Paris with the Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino till late 1998. In 1999, Youssef Nabil had his first solo exhibition in Cairo. Nabil left Egypt in 2003 for an artist residency at the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Miles Aldridge’s Home Works, with Footnotes. #119
Miles Aldridge (born 1964, London) is a fashion photographer and artist.Born in North London to graphic designer Alan Aldridge, Miles grew up accustomed to celebrity. He studied illustration at the Central St Martins to follow his father’s steps and afterwards briefly directed pop videos. He moved into photography by chance when he sent some photos of…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Greg Gorman’s Jodie Foster, with Footnotes. #118
Jodie Foster, original name Alicia Christian Foster, (born November 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), popularly known as Jodie Foster, is an American actress, director and producer. She has won many BAFTAs, Academy Awards and Golden Globes in a career that spanned from her childhood to maturity. She started her Hollywood career at the tender…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ivan Pili’s Peoples of the world: Berber with Footnotes. #117
Berber people are indigenous to North Africa occupying regions stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. They speak the Berber language belonging to the Afroasiatic family. There are about 25-30 million Berber speakers in North Africa today with the majority found in Libya, Algeria, and Morocco. The majority of the population in North Africa…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Robert Philipp’s Theatre #2, with Footnotes. #116
Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America’s top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Charles Levier’s Jeunes Filles, with Footnotes. #115
Charles Levier, French (1920 – 2003), was born in 1920 of a French father and American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II came along and Levier served in the French…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Antoine Malliarakis Mayo’s Femme et masque, with Footnotes. #115
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Melville Kelly’s Mokihana, with Footnotes. #112
John Melville Kelly (1879–1962) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the Partington Art School (San Francisco) and with Eric Spencer Macky (1880–1958). Kelly worked for fourteen years as an illustrator for the…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Manolo Valdés’ Odalisque with white and orange face, with Footnotes. #153
Manolo Valdés (born March 8, 1942) is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture, and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony. Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia on March 8, 1942. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Flemish School’s Helena Fourment, with Footnotes. #111
Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She was the subject of a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for other religious and mythological paintings. Helena was the youngest child of Daniël I Fourment, a wealthy Antwerp silk and carpet…
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04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, American artist Deborah Lanino, with Footnotes. #200
American artist Deborah Lanino has a unique connection to the art world. As a direct descendant of Bernardino Lanino, a successful Renaissance painter from Vercelli, Italy over 400 years ago, she finds this connection imbues her fusion of impressionism and expressionism with a unique insight… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, DOROTHEA LANGE’s Migrant Mother , with Footnotes. #110
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Both her parents were Cherokee. The family lived on a small farm in Indian Territory outside of Tahlequah. Seventeen-year-old Florence married Cleo Owens, a 23-year-old farmer’s son from Stone County, Missouri, on February 14, 1921. They soon had their first…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Édouard Manet’s Berthe Morisot, with Footnotes. #109
Berthe Morisot was the first lady of Impressionism, she first exhibited in the Salon de Refuse in 1864 set up by Napoleon 3 to show work rejected by the Academy. Berthe and her sister Edma trained together, they visited the Louvre to study, for three years they studied with their tutor Guichard. Undervalued for over a century,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chris von Wangenheim’s SUSAN SARANDON, with Footnotes. #107
In the late 70s to early 80s, Chris von Wangenheim loved all the trappings of the punk scene-the tattoos, leather motorcycle jackets, and wildly colored hair-and incorporated them into his high-fashion work such as the image with Susan Sarandon for the Crawdaddy Magazine cover of May 1978 issue.The cover featured the tagline “Wild Dreams Wicked…
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