Tag: amorous
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01 painting, The amorous game, John Lewis Brown’s The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, With Footnotes, #86
The word grisette has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. By the 1835 she…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Gurcharan Singh’s Saturday Night, With Footnotes, #85
Gurcharan Singh is an Indian painter, known for his figurative paintings.[1] He was born in 1949 at Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab and studied at Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chandigarh.[2] He has had several and group exhibitions in India and abroad and his works were exhibited at the International Biennale in Tokyo…
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Sergii Mykhalkiv’s Boudery Fun # 11, With Footnotes, #82
Sergiy Mykhalkiv was born in 1975 in Lviv. He was teaching the art of photography in several photo schools. In 2017 he opened his own photo studio “RedLight”. Mykhalkiv was a two-time winner of the annual contest of the “Playboy” magazine, and winner of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine Contest “Photo Portrait” in…
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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84
K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until…
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, With Footnotes, #81
Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in on the shoes themselves in the present work from Private Property Suite II. Beginning an exploration of what high heels represent in society, he investigates the way class presents itself through footwear. Newton later went on to photograph x-rays of feet in high heels…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Ilia Balavadze’s Lets Talk About War, With Footnotes, #79
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. Afterwards and for many years, he worked on painting the walls of many orthodox churches all around Georgia. The artist is very well distinguished…
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01 Painting, The amorous games, Francesco Vinea’s Merriment in the tavern, Part 78 – With Footnotes
Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 – Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects. He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without a home. He worked for a photographer, also as…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Francesco Vinea’s The courtly guest in the wine cellar, Part 78 – With Footnotes
Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 – Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects. He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without a home. He worked for a photographer,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Quiringh van Brekelenkam’s A soldier drinking with a young woman, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Quiringh van Brekelenkam was probably trained in Leiden, probably under Gerard Dou (1613–75). He was one of the founders of the Guild of St Luke there in 1648. He continued to be active as a painter, paying his guild fees until 1667. His last known painting, a portrait, is dated 1669. Brekelenkam’s genre scenes share their…
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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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01 Painting, The amorous game, Louis Anquetin’s La Femme à la berthe rouge, Part 63 – With Footnotes
The spontaneous gesture gives this painting its energy and power. Through his mastery of oil painting, Anquetin emphasizes his volumes and endows his figures with a rare materiality. The canvas mattness, obtained with a blotter to absorb the shine of the medium, reinforces the dimensionality of the composition. More on this painting Louis Anquetin (26 January…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Tito Lessi’s THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE. Part 62 – With Footnotes
Tito Lessi (1858 – 1917) was born in Florence, then became a resident of Paris. He studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri. Lessi painted a watercolor titled: L’ anticamera del Papa. Charles Sedelmeyer invited him to Paris, where he painted small canvases: The Testament; Le lever du Dauphine;…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Vittorio Reggianini’s Flirtatious Glances, With Footnotes, #78
Born in Modena, Vittorio Reggianini studied in the Academy of Arts of this city, of which he will become later one of the professors. Following the example of the Italian artists of his period, he leaves to Florence, where he participates in 1900 in the Concours Alinari, with a painting entitled « Tristis Matris Nati Presaga…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Vincent van Gogh’s A Pair of Lovers , Part 66 – With Footnotes
Painted in March 1888, the month after van Gogh arrived in Arles, the present work is an intimate depiction of two lovers walking along the bank of a river. It once formed the central motif of a larger composition depicting a pair of lovers walking along a canal path towards the Pont de Réginelle, known…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Edouard Manet’s Au père Lathuille, 1879 , Part 66 – With Footnotes
Chez le Père Lathuille (At the Père Lathuille Restaurant) is an 1879 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet. In the background is the proprietor. Manet also painted a portrait of his daughter. Père Lathuille’s cabaret, and later restaurant, was situated in the Batignolles quarter, on the site now occupied by a cinema at 7 Avenue de Clichy,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Hans Buchner’s The Ace of Hearts, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Hans Buchner, 1856 – 1941, was born in Germany in 1856. Buchner enjoyed painting from an early age and it is probable that he studied in Paris, although he spent most of his life in Munich. Buchner, along with esteemed contemporaries such as Reggianini, Ricci and Soulacroix, focused on portraying images of the sheer luxury…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Henri Decaisne’s Fallen woman, Part 66 – With Footnotes
“Fallen woman” is an archaic term which was used to describe a woman who has “lost her innocence”, and fallen from the grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman’s chastity and with female promiscuity. Its use was an expression of the…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger’s Spanish Farmers. Part 64 – With Footnotes
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger (6 August 1814, Frankfurt am Main – 21 February 1893, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French portrait and genre painter of German birth. He was especially known for his lively and sensitive depictions of young women. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was originally active in that…
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