Tag: Art
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Charles Anslow Thornley, Harbor in Gravesend 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #152
Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Charles Thornley, British fl 1858 – 1893, was a member of the Royal Society of British Painters, working mainly in oil. He lived in London…
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Henry Varnum Poor, Mother and Child 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 25
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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01 Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #15
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of…
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Pierre BONNARD, Women at the window 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 43 – With Footnotes
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for…
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Laila Shawa, Red Table 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2q
Laila Shawa (Born Gaza 1940) is a Palestinian artist. Her work has been described as reflecting a view of the politics of her country highlighting perceived injustices and persecution. Often her work uses photographs that are used as the base for silkscreen printing. Her work has been internationally exhibited and has work on display in many…
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Maurice de Vlaminck, NU COUCHÉ 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 10
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. Vlaminck was one of the…
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Tintoretto, St George 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 118
Saint George (circa 275/281 – 23 April 303 AD) was a soldier in the Roman army who later became venerated as a Christian martyr. His parents were Christians of Greek background; his father Gerontius was a Roman army official from Cappadocia and his mother Polychronia was from Lydda, Syria Palaestina. Saint George became an officer in…
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Safwan Dahoul, Reve/ Dream 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2o
Safwan Dahoul completed his first Dream in 1987, he has painted the same woman in the same muted monochromatic colours on what he assumes has been more than 1,000 canvases (although he never kept count). Every time, he titled it Dream. More on Dream Safwan Dahoul was born in Hama, Syria in 1961. He graduated from the Fine Arts…
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Wayne Thiebaud, NUDE on the stretcher 01 painting, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 9
Nude is a stunning example of Wayne Thiebaud’s singular mastery of realist painting. Having worked from a live model, Thiebaud reveals his gifted draftsmanship and technical skill in the distinctive individual features of the sitter. Thiebaud deliberately avoids placing the figure in a context that would lead to an implied narrative. By positioning the figure…
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Willi Bauer, Harbor Scene 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #151
Willi Bauer is a contemporary German painter known for his Impressionist-styled depictions of garden parties and rustic villages. Born on July 7, 1923 in Spessart, Germany, Bauer studied at the Staedel College of Fine Art in Frankfurt under the artist Della Villa. In the spirit of German painters like Otto Eduard Pippel, Bauer often painted people…
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Filippo Lippi, The Adoration in the Forest 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 116
Adoration in the Forest is a painting completed before 1459 by the Carmelite friar, Filippo Lippi, of the Virgin Mary and the newly born Christ Child lying on the ground, in the unusual setting of a steep, dark, wooded wilderness. There are no shepherds, kings, ox, ass – there is no Joseph. “Lippi removes a whole…
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Pál Fried, Woman with Guitar and Flamenco Dancer 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #36
Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and his subjects were almost always women, although he also painted Paris, seascapes, and cowboys and landscapes of the American West. He signed his paintings, as is…
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Monique Laville, Carnaval Venitien 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #52
Monique Laville, self-taught professional painter, born in Marseille on February 2, 1950 under the name of Saccomanni, “I exhibit in France as well as abroad solo or in group since 1984 with different artistic recognitions and awards. My paintings are strongly influenced by the Impressionist movement with a very personal touch, my painting expresses the…
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Giulio Rosati, A horseman stopping at a Bedouin camp 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 46
Giulio Rosati, 1858 – Rome – 1917, specialised in eighteenth century costume pieces, comical scenes of from the life of the clergy and Orientalist subjects. His preferred medium was watercolour, though he also worked in oils. Rosati studied at the Academy of Rome. He was the pupil of several eminent artists, in particular the poet and architect…
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Pino Daeni, Fountain 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 45
Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 – May 25, 2010) was an Italian-American book illustrator and artist. He is known for his style of feminine, romantic women and strong men painted with loose but accurate brushwork. Considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3,000 book covers, movie posters and magazine…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Perseus and Andromeda 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #36
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia’s hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice…
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Nell Dorr: Tasha Tudor and Child 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 23
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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Adel El-Siwi, Umm Kalthom 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2n
Umm Kulthum December 31, 1898, (or May 4, 1904) died February 3, 1975) was an internationally renowned Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab El Sharq “Planet of the Orient”. Umm Kulthum was known for her extraordinary vocal ability and style, and she…
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Jan Kelderman, Harbour view 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #154
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands. Amsterdam’s name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city’s origin as a dam of the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became…
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Giovanni Boldini, Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #33
Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (1874-1944) was an Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist. She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). The latter is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the…
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