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Dorothy Braund, Bathers I 01 Marine Painting – Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #260
Dorothy Braund was born in Melbourne in 1926 and studied at the National Gallery School, and the George Bell School. Her travel studies in the 50s and 60s took her across Europe, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Persia, and Turkey. Braund’s restrained figurative style has, at its core, the natural world, people and activity, observed with distinctive wit…
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Léon Cauvy, MARKET IN ALGERIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #52
Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings, although his interests soon turned to decorative work. Later, he went to Paris and spent some…
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Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, Consuelo 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, with Footnotes. #85
Consuelo ( Barcelona , 1888 – Barcelona, 1905 ) was a model of Gypsy ethnic group that had a close relationship with Isidre Nonell . The painter repeatedly portrayed her between 1901 and 1905, until she died tragically at seventeen. In the middle of the year 1900, Isidre Nonell returned from Paris to Barcelona. In a shared…
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10 Works, Today, April 2nd, is Saints Margaret Clitherow’s Day, With Footnotes – #90
Margaret Clitherow was born in 1556. Her father was a respected businessman. He died when Margaret was fourteen. She married John Clitherow, a wealthy butcher and a chamberlain of the city, in 1571 and bore him three children. The family lived in The Shambles… Please follow link for full post
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2,500 Museums You Can Now Visit Virtually
If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections. Source: 2,500 Museums You Can Now Visit Virtually
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10 Works, Today, April 1st, is Saint Mary of Egypt’s Day, With Footnotes – #89
Mary of Egypt (is revered as the patron saint of penitents, most particularly in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches, and Oriental Orthodox Churches. Saint Mary, also known as Maria Aegyptiaca, was born somewhere in the Province of Egypt, and at the age of twelve she ran away from her parents to the city of Alexandria.…
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Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière, ARAB WOMEN BY THE OASIS 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #51
Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière was born in Paris on May 1, 1864 died in Moret sur Loing on January 14, 1945. -Ecole Française A pupil of Jules Lefèvre, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant, he began in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was named Sociétaire in 1898. Honorable mention at the Universal…
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José García y Ramos, Bridge of Sighs 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #76
The Bridge of Sighs is an enclosed bridge made of white limestone. It has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.…
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Kimberly Dow; Unfastened, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Kimberly Dow (Dow Kimberly) – American contemporary artist, born in 1968, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion. Today Kimberly writes professionally and exhibited his realistic paintings at various galleries in the United States over the last 20 years. the…
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Linda Weir, (Men Coming Home. St Ives Harbour 02 Marine Paintings – Linda Weir, With Footnotes, #260
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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06 Works, Today, March 31st, is Righteous Joseph’s Day, With Footnotes – #89
Righteous Joseph the Handsome was a son of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob, and died in about the year 1700 before the Birth of Christ. His brothers by birth were jealous of him, because the father loved him more than the other brothers, and they feared him, since he told them about his dreams, foretelling his…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #15
Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual. Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British…
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Donald Hamilton Fraser; Study for Seascape 02 Marine Paintings – Donald Hamilton Fraser, With Footnotes, #259
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats. There has always been a need for small tender boats for transporting goods and personnel to and from anchored sailing ships. Together with other smaller work craft such as fishing and light cargo, small inshore craft have always been in evidence. Charles II of England had a private…
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Melinda Matyas, Room without a view 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 71
Melinda Matyas’ work is based on the contemplation of the “hidden”, the “less visible”, searching the fragmentation and disintegration of the subject where the color and texture become the binding element. In her work the figurative representation breaks up, the forms are slightly falling apart giving free hand to the less visible to emerge, this way…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
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Russell James; Ten New Angels 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 70
Russell James (born 1962 in Perth) is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. Russell was born in Western Australia and spent much of his childhood moving from city to city due to his working class father. After dropping out of school at age 14, Russell got his first job working in a factory that made trashcans.…
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The art of Kartikey Sharma
My name is Kartikey Sharma, “I am 27 years old, I have always been an artist but couldn’t take any formal art education due to my upbringing in a conservative middle class family. I pursued mechanical engineering and during college I decided to make art my career. I knocked doors of an esteemed art university in…
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