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Thomas Saliot, Sailing girl 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #246
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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03 Icons, Today, February 10th, is Saint Valentina of Palestine’s Day, With Footnotes – 41
Virginmartyr Valentina of Palestine was from Caesarea in Palestine. She was small and known for wearing old, worn out clothing. One day, when she was with her friend Thea, they joined a group of Christians gathered to hear the Holy Scriptures. Local officials broke up the meeting, grabbed Thea and tortured her… Please follow link…
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In Iraq, Where Beauty Was Long Suppressed, Art Flowers Amid Protests – The New York Times
Painters, sculptors and musicians are rallying to Baghdad’s protests, and the capital is overflowing with political art.
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‘I Am Not Part of Some Propaganda Machine’: Artists Defend Their Participation in the Saudi-Backed Show Desert X
Curator Neville Wakefield and participating artists in the inaugural Desert X AlUla hope that Saudi controversies don’t overshadow the art. Source: ‘I Am Not Part of Some Propaganda Machine’: Artists Defend Their Participation in the Saudi-Backed Show Desert X
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Vik Muniz, NYMPHEAS, AFTER CLAUDE MONET 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #6
“With photographs you can see history through your own eyes and you can make your own judgments and interpretations… When people look at one of my pictures, I don’t want them to actually see something represented. I prefer for them to see how something gets to represent something else.” Vik Muniz Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born…
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Frederick James Elliott, Tall Ship in Stormy Seas 01 Work of Art, Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #245
Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects. Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott was born in Paignton near Brixham, Devon, UK, son of Alfred Elliott. Fred Elliott immigrated to Queensland in 1876 when his father was appointed teacher at…
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Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Marie Rapp 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #78
Marie Rapp was Alfred Stieglitz’s secretary at his 291 Gallery, and a lifelong friend. She not only helped run the gallery but assisted with the publication of Camera Work. He photographed her many times. A close friend and confidante, she was an excellent subject, her natural grace and beauty resulting in a touching image. More on this…
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04 Icons, Today, February 9th, is Saint Maron’s Day, With Footnotes – #40
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro, was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Syriac Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. The religious community which grew from this movement are…
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Helmut Newton, Lisa Lyon 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #244
Lisa Lyon (born 1953) is a female bodybuilder and photo model from the United States, and is regarded as one of female bodybuilding’s pioneers. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953. Lisa Lyon studied art at the University of California at Los Angeles. There she became accomplished in the Japanese art of fencing, kendo, but found…
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Ships in harbour 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #244
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter, born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec. He studied art in Montreal and worked at the Montreal Post Office, and at an Edmonton bank. He studied art abroad. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the St. Lawrence…
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Boris Georgiev, Haydarabad Princess Nilufar 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #77
Princess Begum Sahiba Niloufer Khanum Sultana Farhat of Hyderabad (4 January 1916 – 12 June 1989) was one of the last princesses of the Ottoman Empire. She was married to the second son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad in India. Niloufer was born at the Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, at a time when her…
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Eric Fischl | A Visit To / A Visit From / The Island (1983) | Artsy
From Whitney Museum of American Art, Eric Fischl, A Visit To / A Visit From / The Island (1983), Oil on canvas, 84 × 168 in Source: Eric Fischl | A Visit To / A Visit From / The Island (1983) | Artsy
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05 Works, Today, February 8th, is Saint John of Matha’s Day, With Footnotes – # 39
Saint John of Matha (1160–1213) was a Christian saint of the 12th century and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, dedicated to ransoming captive Christians. Between the eighth and the fifteenth centuries medieval Europe was in a state of intermittent warfare between the Christian kingdoms of southern Europe and the Muslim polities of…
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Syrian woman’s Aleppo documentary takes top British award, up for Oscar
“For Sama,” a documentary depicting the struggle of a Aleppan mother and journalist, has won BAFTA’s award for best documentary and is now in the running for an Oscar. Source: Syrian woman’s Aleppo documentary takes top British award, up for Oscar
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Massimo Vitali, Papeete Beach Regatta 01 Work of Art, Marine Photograph – With Footnotes, #244
Massimo Vitali (b. Como, Italy in 1944) is an Italian photographer based in Lucca. Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing. He initially worked as a photojournalist for the Report Agency in the 1970s, and later as a movie camera operator. In 1995 he took on fine art photography, often standing on a podium…
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06 Works, Today, February 7th, is Saint Theodore Stratilat’s Day, With Footnotes – 38
Theodore Stratelates, also known as Theodore of Heraclea, is a martyr and Warrior Saint venerated with the title Great-martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches… Please follow link for full post
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Mosè Bianchi, Common lady 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #76
Mosè Bianchi ( Monza , 1840-1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Bianchi’s family moved from Monza to Milan and he enrolled at the Brera Academy . Having interrupted his studies to serve in the second war of independence, he returned to attend the school directed by Giuseppe Bertini . The award of a grant in…
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Kour Pour, LOVE CHILD, 2010 03 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, # 5
Kour Pour (born 1987, Exeter, Devon) is a British artist of part Iranian descent based in Los Angeles. His father owned a small carpet shop in England, and Pour would spend time there as a child. He also often travelled to Los Angeles to visit family members on his father’s side, and would ultimately move there…
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Angel Botello, Boats in port 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #243
Ángel Botello (June 20, 1913 – November 11, 1986) was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was dubbed “The Caribbean Gauguin” for his use of bold colors and depictions of island life. Botello is considered one of the greatest Latin American post-modern artists and recognition and demand for his artwork continues to grow…
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