Tag: Art

in Mythology,

Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. He was conceived after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus. Myrrha had sex with her father in complete darkness for nine nights, but he discovered her identity and chased her with a sword. The gods…

Max Jacob, Charge of Eastern Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 44

Mar 26, 2019

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Max Jacob (12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. He was one of the first friends Pablo Picasso made in Paris. They met in the…

Italian School 18th century, Rebecca at the Well 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 120

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in Religious Art

Abraham went about finding a wife for his son Isaac. He commanded his servant to journey to his birthplace of Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own family, rather than engage Isaac to a local Canaanite girl. Abraham sent along expensive jewelry, clothing and dainties as gifts to the bride and her family. …

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #35

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in Portait of a Lady

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…

Thomas Saliot, Green Hotel 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #149

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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…

Nathaniel Sichel, The sorceress 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 43

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Nathaniel Sichel’s artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the…

20th Century School, Passenger Ship Entering New York Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #150

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Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for…

Philip Krevoruck, Women Watching 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #32

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in Portait of a Lady

Philip Krevoruck, (1919-1999) was born January 26, 1919 in Fitchburg, MA. He was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / China. He is known for abstract urban and industrial scene painting. Krevoruck completed 4 years of college prior to WWII and taught art. The artist is well versed in a variety of extraordinary styles. Particularly known…

Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes

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in Art

The woman in black, the leering coupler, “in a nun’s costume”, could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, “wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves”, has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. The man, a soldier, in the red jacket is fondling the young woman’s…

Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Untitled 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2m

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in MIDDLE EASTERN ART

Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iran, b. 1937) Untitled Oil and metallic paint on canvas 146 x 97cm (57 1/2 x 38 3/16in) Private collection Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937 Tehran) is one of Iran’s most accomplished modern artists, and as a founding father of the highly influential Saqqa Khaneh movement, has been a pioneering figurehead of Iranian…

José Cruz Herrera, A draped reclining beauty 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 8

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in Art of the Nude

José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August 1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca. His talent was soon apparent and he began formal training in Cádiz. He…

Parvaneh Etemadi, Woman and Urn 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2l

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in MIDDLE EASTERN ART

Parvaneh Etemadi, born in Tehran in 1948, with nearly five decades of lively presence on the scene of visual arts, Parvaneh Etemadi is one of the most successful and popular Iranian artists both in the eyes of art virtuosos and laymen. Even though she was born in Tehran, Etemadi she spent her early childhood in the…

Gaetano Bellei, Giornata di pioggia, (Rainy day) 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #31

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in Portait of a Lady

Capturing something of the Belle Époque, Bellei painted a number of large canvases which feature elegant women, either set in glamorous interiors, such as In the theatre and Off to the Masquerade, or battered by the elements, such as Gust of wind and A windy day. These works allow the artist to demonstrate his skill…

Egisto Massoni, Venezia-Canal Dei Fuseri 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #51

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in Benjamin Brown, BUNNER, Ken Howard, Richard Price, Serge Mendjisky, Venise,

Venice is known as “the City of Canals” and contains 182 named canals which break down further into Canal Segments connecting Venice’ islands.. The longest canal is the Grand Canal which spans 4,016 meters. In Venice, a single canal is called rio. The current canals of Venice are descendants of natural lagoon channels that separated…

Henri Frédéric Schopin, The halt of the caravan 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 41

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Henri Frédéric Schopin was born in 1804 in the north-German city of Lübeck to French parents. His father was the sculptor Jean-Louis-Théodore Chopin, of whom very little is known. Young Henri entered the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros and at the same time followed courses at the École des beaux-arts between 1821-1831, which allowed him to compete…

Arthur Sarnoff, Hook Oars and Stand By 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #148

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There are typically five oarsmen under the headsman in a whaleboat. The oarsman in the bow of the boat is the harpooneer — he whose job it is to stick the sharp-pointed arrow-headed iron spear into the body of the whale to “fasten” to it (it’s a huge fish hook, if you will). After a…

Suad Al Attar, (Iraq, born 1942) 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2k

Mar 16, 2019

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in MIDDLE EASTERN ART

This vibrant work, by Suad al Attar, is electrified through the hyper-realistic rendering of a tree’s root system fanning out from the central trunk like lightning through the sky. The color scheme of intense reds and yellows contrasted with black adds to the visual vibrancy of the piece. More on this painting Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is…

The New York piers in the 1950s 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #145

Mar 14, 2019

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The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal (and also known as Luxury Liner Row or New York Cruise Terminal) is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. More on The New York piers The New York piers in the…

Jean-François Portaels, The tambourine player in repose, 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 42

Mar 14, 2019

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