Tag: Art
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Charles Haigh Wood; Mending the sail 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #214
Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) was a genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are some of the most endearing and popular of all images. His patrons adored them, a successful businessman of Haigh-Wood’s day with any pretension to artistic taste had to…
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Kees van Dongen, NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 42
Cornelis Theodorus Maria ‘Kees’ van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter and one of the Fauves at the controversial 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. Kees van Dongen was born in Delfshaven, a borough of Rotterdam. He was the second of…
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Walter Langhammer, Untitled (Indian Woman with Amphora) 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #59
An amphora is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphorae were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine. More on amphora Walter Langhammer, 1905 – 1977, went to India before World War 2,…
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Robert G. Harris, LOVERS ON THE BEACH, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Robert George Harris was born September 9, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. Harris studied at the Kansas City Art Institute since the age of fourteen. In 1933 he left Kansas City and drove a motorcycle all the way to New York City. He opened an art studio in New Rochelle at 560 Main Street. His…
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Rasha Amin, Always remember 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 35
“In the real world we find repetitive actions and experiences of violence, hatred, and loneliness. Unfortunately the reality became so connected to the digital world, especially with the rise of social media. As many researches has shown they make us more isolated, responsible for increasing of our negativity, violence, anger and hatred to grow within…
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Emvienne Maria Anvers, Paris on the Roofs 02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Part 64 – With Footnotes
“This painting is a part of my personal collection of art works dedicated to the Parisian rooftops, and as the rest of them a tribute to the their strange beauty, reflecting centuries of life unfolding under them.” Please follow link for full post
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Jane Long; Worth my Salt 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #202
Jane Long is a photographer and digital artist, born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, she combines photography and photomanipulation to create slightly surreal images that straddle the line between reality and fantasy. Completely self-taught, she has worked with Photoshop since 1994, both commercially and for personal work. More recently she has…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Virgin of Consolation 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5i
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1825 – 1905 Vierge Consolatrice, The Virgin of Consolation, c. 1875 Oil on canvas 204 x 148 cm, (80¼” x 58¼”) Les Musees de la Ville de Strasbourg (France) Starting in the 2nd century, Catholics venerated Mary as Our Lady of Consolation, one of her earliest titles of honor. The title of “Our…
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Bernard Dufour, FEMME NUE 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 41
Dufour cannot paint anybody. He paints the woman he most desires among all the ones he sees. It cannot work without desire. He chooses to represent female nudes, but not any woman, she who touches him the most, his. Dufour speaks about bodies: the other’s body. And by doing so, he speaks about the very…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, La Vierge au Lys, The Virgin of the Lilies. 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5h
The Madonna of the Lilies depicts Mary as a seated figure, a pose which has been favoured in religious iconography since the fifteenth century. The child is lovingly supported by his mother while his arms reach out to the viewer. White lilies placed around her throne symbolise chastity and purity. More on Madonna of the Lilies William-Adolphe…
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, SHIPS AT SEA, 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #201
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Moses Soyer, Seated Nude. 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 40
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer’s brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer’s wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring…
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Joseph Steininger; Abaft 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #200
Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using the traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium. Though spray paint is still seen by many…
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Juarez Machado, Tango, 2005. 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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Hosni Radwan; Jerusalem #6. 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 34
Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad in 1955. He studied fine arts at the University of Baghdad specializing in graphics. He held a number of solo exhibitions in Iraq, Lebanon, Cyprus, Japan and Palestine. Radwan took part in international biennales including those of Berlin, Cairo and Sharja. He left Baghdad in 1979 and headed to Beirut…
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Christopher James; Chez Camille, Paris. 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 63 – With Footnotes
“I was attracted to the look and character of this Parisian restaurant, which is often used by artists and musicians. I found painting the sidewalk and road interesting as well, as it was an strong contrast to the red of the restaurant..” Chez Camille, Paris, is a typical Parisian brasserie, Camille offers authentic and traditional…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Le Saintes Femmes au Tombeau. 01 Works RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5g
Le Saintes Femmes au Tombeau, 1890, translated to The Holy Women at the Tomb, depicts the three Marys, Mary the Mother of James, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Cleophas, at the tomb of the resurrection. The viewer, compositionally, is placed in a prostrated position and looking up first notices the expressions of bewilderment on the central Mary’s…
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Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal; Shrouded Woman. 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADYr, with Footnotes. #58
Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal commonly known as B. C. Sanyal (22 April 1901 – 9 August 2003), the doyen of modernism in Indian art, was an Indian painter and sculptor and an Art teacher to three generations of artists. During his lifetime he not just saw the partition of the Indian subcontinent three times, 1905, 1947 and…
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Jules Bastien-Lepage, Venise : la nuit sur la lagune. 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #68
Here, the painter produces a highly synthetic painting with great economy of means. An analytical approach and feeling for detail bring it closer to Naturalism. Jeanne Magnin speaks of a “symphony in blue where the artist has not sought to create an effect, but has expressed a personal impression of his only trip to Venice,…
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Jock MacInnes; SEAGULLS’ SALUTE. 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #197
Jock MacInnes R.G.I. (Scottish B.1943) studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he graduated in 1966. Like many Artists Jock MacInnes spent his early career teaching Art – in his case at the Glasgow School of Art. Throughout his time teaching Jock continued with his own painting regularly exhibiting and winning art Awards and Scholarships.…
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