Tag: Art
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Edouard Kasparides’ The penitent Mary Magdalene in the cave, with Footnotes – 127
The penitent Mary Magdalene was a sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend. According to the tenets…
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Shakir Hassan Al-Said’s UNTITLED (MAN AND HORSE), with Footnotes – #5F
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative and influential artists. Born in Samawa, Al Said lived, worked and died in Bagdad. In 1948 he received a degree in social science from the Higher Institute of Teachers in Baghdad and in 1954 a diploma in painting…
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42 Posters – The Art and evolution of the Automotive, Grand Prix and La Mans Posters, from 1896 -1970, with footnotes
Roger de Valerio, pseudonym of Roger Laviron , born in Lille on May 16, 1886 and died in Paris on April 16, 1951 was a French illustrator , poster designer and painter. de Valerio studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . From 1911 to 1914 he worked as artistic director for the newspaper Le Matin .…
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10 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, #14
‘In this illustrious piece of architecture, the artist has introduced a feeling, poetry and effect, which are among the highest attributes of genius. And yet every figure and feature of the scene are studied with the most perfect accuracy. The sun sets on the Libyan hills and, on the lower grounds, tinging them with a…
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Lalla Essaydi’s Harem #7, with Footnotes, #67
“Traditionally, the presence of men defines public spaces: streets, meeting places, you, the workplaces,” writes Essaydi. “Women, on the other hand, have been confined to private spaces, to the architecture of homes. In my photographs, I restrict women to these spaces, their spaces clean, partitioned off by walls and controlled by men” -Lalla Essaydi More on…
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01 MARINE PAINTING, MIROSLAVA ZAHARIEVA’S LIGHTHOUSE – WITH FOOTNOTES, #357
Miroslava Zaharieva is an academic and self-expression artist. She works in various styles: still life, landscape, portrait, figural and non-figural compositions using watercolours, oil, tempera and acrylic colours. Traditional techniques of painting and experimentation by mixing different techniques together. Collage works with various materials: paper, textile, leather and synthetics. Applied arts experience in hand drawing and…
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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84
K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until…
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157
Cui Xiaodong’s works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong’s colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate…
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05 Works, February 14th, is Lupercalia/ Saint Valentine’s Day, With Footnotes – #45
In a refined contrast with a material background, the delicate and idealized line of Maria Rachele Branca , which distinguishes her style in the lyricism of a mythologized folklore, suspends the scene in the allusion to the invasive sound of the flute which bewitches the nymph sitting on it next to. And precisely in underlining its…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Dina Larot’s Virgin, with footnotes # 154
Dina Larot is a 20th-century Austrian painter. Known for both her landscapes and erotic female nudes, Larot’s stylized aesthetic is marked by the influence of earlier Austrian masters, the painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Her figures in particular recall the elongated forms and intimate sensuality of the Vienna Succession artists. Born in 1943 in Vienna,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Edouard Manet’s The Dead Christ with Angels – with footnotes #195
Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious scenes, in the inscription on the rock: the Gospel according to Saint John. However, in the passage cited, Christ’s tomb is empty except for two angels. After Manet sent the canvas to the 1864 Salon, he realized that he had made an even…
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04 Works, February 11th, is Our Lady of Lourdes’s Day, With Footnotes – #42
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a “lady” spoke…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pegah Samaie’s Defiance, with Footnotes. #161
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed…
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16 Works, Today, February 10th. is artist Francesco Hayez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #041
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Follower of Angelica Kauffmann’s Holy Family – with footnotes #193
Angelica Kauffmann, in full Maria Anna Catharina Angelica Kauffmann, (born Oct. 30, 1741, Chur, Switz.—died Nov. 5, 1807, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), painter in the early Neoclassical style who is best known for her decorative wall paintings for residences designed by Robert Adam. Her early paintings were influenced by the French Rococo works of Henri…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Archangel Eliel and Ángeles Arcabucero – with footnotes #194
The Cusco School or Cuzco School, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It was not limited to Cusco only, but spread to other cities in the Andes, as well as to present day…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Rochegrosse’s IDLE MOMENTS, with footnotes
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (2 August 1859 – 7 November 1938) was a French historical and decorative painter. He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a…
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