Tag: Art
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis John Wyburd’s Xarifa, with Footnotes. #176
Scene on the walls of the city overlooking the field of battle. On the distant hills is seen the Spanish camp. Moors pass hastily across the stage, and look anxiously over the walls on the combatants beneath. Wyburd often painted Eastern subjects of a fashionable romantic kind, inevitably drawing at least some of his inspiration from…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, BRUCE WEBER’s LISA MARIE, PALM BEACH, with footnotes # 173
Bruce Weber is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer best known for his racy, erotically charged imagery. Weber has shot the ad campaigns of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Renato Guttuso’s Nudo, with footnotes # 171
Renato Guttuso (26 December 1912 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter. His best-known works include Flight from Etna (1938–39), Crucifixion (1941) and La Vucciria (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre and did illustrations for books. Those for Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (1954), introduced him to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Charles Edward Hallé’s Archer, with Footnotes. #176
Within this work, Hallé demonstrates his interest in classical themes by depicting Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and nature. Though tackling a mythological subject, Hallé stylistically expresses his alignment with the Pre-Raphaelites through Diana’s flowing auburn hair, pale porcelain skin and green eyes. Here the huntress turns on the viewer, gazing coolly out…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Inji Efflatoun’s FELOUKAS ON THE NILE, with Footnotes – #23
A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, in Egypt and Sudan (particularly along the Nile), including Malta and Tunisia, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. The crew consists of two or three people. Despite the availability of motorboats…
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39 Works by 39 Old Masters Artists Embedded with Helen of Troy, with Footnotes
Throughout his career, Gustave Moreau showed remarkable fidelity to the character of Hélène de Troie by devoting an exceptionally rich ensemble to her. Main rival of Salomé in the heart of the artist, the most beautiful woman of antiquity appeared in his work in 1852, then returned triumphantly in the company of Galatea on the…
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01 painting, The amorous game, William Oxer’ s Love’s Fragility, with Footnotes, #88
William Joseph Oxer B.A. Hons. (Wrwk) F. R.S.A. is a passionate artist driven by traditional ideas of how beauty should be represented, William formed the intellectual basis to his work under the tutelage of Professor Regius Peter Davidson of Oxford University. After graduating, William was offered a place at the Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture but…
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02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Giovanni Boldini’s Al caffè and Scène de fête, with footnotes, Part #84
Here, Boldini is certainly depicting the Moulin-Rouge just after it opened in 1889. The establishment quickly became one of the hot spots of Parisian nightlife. The vigorous and dynamic brushstrokes and the liveliness of the red recreate the feeling of fun and freedom… Please follow link for full post
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary 20th C. Interpretation of the Bible!, František Drtikol’s Étude de la Crucifixion – #12
František Drtikol (3 March 1883, Příbram — 13 January 1961, Prague) was a Czech photographer of international renown. He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits. He had his own studio, until 1935 where he operated an important portrait photostudio in Prague. Drtikol made many portraits of very important people and nudes…
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1 Work , Pal Fried’s The Picador, with footnotes
A picador is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullfight. If the public feels that a picador is better than the bull the public will whistle,…
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01 Classic Work by the Old Masters, Edward Coley Burne-Jones’ The Answering String – With Footnotes, #22
A heavily draped female figure, her head covered, stands in an enclosed space beside a building of stone construction and with a single barred window. A woman stands in the foreground holding a dulcimer the strings of which she appears to pluck. The drawing’s title – The Answering String – seems to imply that she…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Emmanuel de Dieundonné’s Turkish Beauty with a Narguilé, with footnotes, #121
A hookah; shisha, Narguilé, or waterpipe is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium. The smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. More on the Narguilé As a young artist, Emmanuel de Dieudonné devoted himself to academic art, painting in the style of Alexandre Cabanel, under…
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08 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Pierre Bonnard’s Place Clichy, with footnotes, Part #83
Bonnard’s La Place Clichy depicts a busy Parisian square near Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, which was a popular artists’ quarter in the early twentieth century. Bonnard and his fellow artist Édouard Vuillard, who lived nearby, took joy in observing and painting the crowded streets around Place Clichy and the bohemian lifestyle of its inhabitants……
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11 works, MARC CHAGALL. A RETROSPECTIVE (1908 – 1985) – Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The art piece follows a similar piece by the same artist called the White Crucifixion, where he showed the suffering of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust by using the image of Jesus Christ, a Jew. In this masterpiece, the artist continues to discuss the plight of the Jews. In this art piece, he shows Jesus…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Francesco Furini’s St. Agatha, With Footnotes – #173
This devotional image shows the saint contemplating God while tenderly holding the pincers, the instruments of her sufferings through which she achieved her sanctity. The palm branch is the attribute of martyrs. More on this painting Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania…
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Alphonsine de Challié’s Young brunette woman with a pink veil at her toilet, with footnotes # 31
Alphonsine de Challie worked in the studio of Charles Joshua Chaplin and was a friend of Berthe Morisot. In 1875, Berthe Morisot painted the’ Woman with her toilet ‘which is today preserved at the Art Institute of Chicago. Is she undressing or getting ready? The same mystery surrounds this picture of Alphonsine Challie who was probably…
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05 Works, Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Medieval soldiers scenes, with footnotes
An army always made sure to put in place what was called a “ supply train” , this is even known from the times of Alexander´s campaigns. The supply train was the logistic mechanism that allowed resupplying the army with everything it needed. The bigger the army and the deeper it was into enemy territory, the…
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1 Work , John Lewis Brown’s Battle of Reichshoffen, with footnotes
The Battle of Reichshoffen (also known as the Battle of Wörth) took place near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. It is referred to as the second battle of Wörth (the first occurred during the French Revolutionary wars in 1793). In the second battle depicted…
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