Tag: Art
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Andrés Serrano, HEAVEN AND HELL 02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 28
“In Heaven and Hell, Andres Serrano challenges the benevolence of the Catholic Church while also taking on the sexualization of violence against women. The work was made in collaboration with political artist Leon Golub, who appears in the photograph wearing the red robes of a Cardinal, subtly smiling as he looks away from the blood-splattered nude…
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Jan or Frans Verbeeck, The Witches’ Sabbath 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Witches’ Sabbath, with Footnotes – 151
The Witches’ Sabbath is a term applied to a gathering of those considered to practice witchcraft and other rites. Bristol University’s Ronald Hutton: “the witches’ sabbath represents a combination of three older mythical components, all of which are active at night: A procession of female spirits, often joined by privileged human beings and often led by a…
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Walid Ebeid, The immigrant 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 14
“People who feel strangers in their own countries seeking for a better life in other places where they will realize that they are more strange”. Walid Ebeid was born in Cairo in 1970 and raised in Yemen during his childhood. Walid graduated with a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, in 1992. His work has been exhibited…
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Jack Vettriano, SURRENDER 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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EMILE ALBERT GRUPPE, Gloucester Dock Workers 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #18e
Gloucester Quays is located next to the beautiful Historic Docks of Gloucester – one of the UK’s most inland Shipping Ports and one of Gloucester’s busiest tourist attractions. Filled with Victorian Architecture, Gloucester Docks is the perfect place to enjoy interesting views and learn about Gloucester’s History. The Ship Canal was opened in 1827 and allowed…
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Filippo Indoni, Two ladies and two gentleman 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 41 – With Footnotes
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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French School Early 20th century, Parisian street view under rain 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 48 – With Footnotes
School of Paris refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. The School of Paris was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900…
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Simone Pignoni, Mary Magdalene 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 134
Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named more than most of the apostles. Based on…
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James Edward Buttersworth, American clipper Black Warrior 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #18d
The ‘Black Warrior’ was a medium clipper ship launched late in 1853 from the yard Austin & Co., Damariscotta, Maine and immediately purchased by William Wilson and Son of Baltimore for $90,000. The Black Warrior was 234 feet in length, 42.5 feet in breadth, 23 feet in draft and the weight was 1828 tons. Captain Murphy…
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Theodor Grust, Profile of a Woman, 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #38
Theodor Grust (1859-1919) was a German genre and porcelain painter from the Saxon town Meissen. Grust studied at the Academy in Dresden as a pupil of Theodor Grosse. Later he went to Munich. The artist travelled to Belgium and to the Netherlands before he settled down in his hometown Meissen. Grust worked there in the famous…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, MOROCCAN RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 52
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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Conrad Jon Godly, Amber Smith 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 16
Amber Smith was born in Tampa, Florida. Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she was represented by Irene Marie Models in Miami Beach and traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a…
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Theodor Grust, Red Cross Nurse 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #39
Theodor Grust (1859-1919) was a German genre and porcelain painter from the Saxon town Meissen. Grust studied at the Academy in Dresden as a pupil of Theodor Grosse. Later he went to Munich. The artist travelled to Belgium and to the Netherlands before he settled down in his hometown Meissen. Grust worked there in the famous…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, BACK TO THE KSAR 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 51
Ksar, is the North African term for “Berber castle”, possibly loaned from Latin castrum. The term generally refers to a Berber fortified village. The counterpart of Maghrebi ksar in literary Arabic, qaṣr, means “castle” or “palace”. Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter…
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Tom Wesselmann, Study for Nude Lithograph, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 15
Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from their rocket-red mouths. Their crisp outlines resonate with the immediacy of a neon sign. Like the nudes of Titian, Velasquez, or Rubens, Wesselmann’s mid-century modern nudes…
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Henry Scott, The clipper ship Ben Nevis 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #165
The Ben Nevis was an iron fullrigged ship built in 1868 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 218’0″×34’6″×21’0″ and 1109 GRT, 1061 NRT and 999 tons under deck. The forecastle was 36 feet long and the poop 46 feet. The Ben Nevis, built in 1868, was one of the new clippers at the time which were much…
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Mona Trad Dabaji, L’attente/ The wait 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 11
Mona Trad Dabaji graduated from the American University of Beirut, just after the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon. She lives and works in Beirut where she has been teaching painting since 1993. The artist has exhibited in Lebanon, France, Jordan, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Beirut, The Phantom City, a Beirut…
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Harutyun Khachatryan, The Game 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 38 – With Footnotes
Harutyun Khachatryan ( born 9 January 1955) is an Armenian film director, script writer, director of photography, film producer, General director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Meritorious Artist of the Republic of Armenia and voting Member of European Film Academy since 2006. Khachatryan was born in Akhalkalak (Georgian SSR, now Georgia). 1981 he…
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Edouard Cortès, PLACE SAINT-MICHEL 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 47 – With Footnotes
The Place Saint-Michel is a public square in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. It lies on the left bank of the river Seine facing the Île de la Cité, to which it is linked by the Pont Saint-Michel. The northern end of the Place Saint-Michel, the end closer to the river, is on the left-bank…
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