Tag: Art
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dorothea Tanning’s Birthday, with Footnotes. #139
“I thought you had to go to art school. It would be a kind of initiation like being baptised — in paint. […] What a scam! They would take your money for your ‘tuition’, and then you sat and drew in a stuffy little room. […] I threw down my charcoal and left, and that…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Giuseppe Borsato’s Grand Canal in Venice, with footnotes. #100
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Rachid TalbiI’s The arrival 2, with footnotes, #102
Rachid Talbi was born on October 29, 1967 in Beni Mellal – Morocco. He lives in Oran – Algeria. Graduated in 1992 following higher studies at the University of Es-Senia in Oran, in the Microbiology sector. He is a self-taught artist and a member of the National Union of Cultural Arts. After his university studies, Rachid…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Léon François Comerre’s Egg Seller, with Footnotes. #138
Léon François Comerre (10 October 1850 – 20 February 1916) was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women. Comerre was born in Trélon, in the Département du Nord, the son of a schoolteacher. He moved to Lille with his family in 1853. From an early age he showed an interest in art and…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselman’s Monica Sitting with Mondrian, with footnotes # 133
Mondrian refers to the artist whose painting is shown behind the model. Wesselmann’s most famous series, “Great American Nude” (1961–73), channels the brazen energy of American advertising and features flat, faceless female figures whom the artist often situated among stars and stripes. More on this painting The artist always refrains from developing the facial features of the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Gaston La Touche’s La promenade, with footnotes, Part 79
In this work, La Touche finds a later echo in the closing scenes in the film of Colette’s novella, Gigi, where Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron promenade in the Bois de Boulogne. In the shade, other figures relax and enjoy the afternoon sun. This is the Belle Epoque at its height. However, in a social…
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01 Marine Painting – Jules Achille Noel’s Before the gale at Le Tréport, with Footnotes, #335
Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe. The mouth of the Bresle river meets the English Channel here, in between the high chalk cliffs and…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Carlo Falcini’s Seamstresses, with Footnotes. #137
A woman holding a pair of scissors peering over the shoulder of a person draped in cream and gold fabric while a third figure stands in the back with a surprised expression. More on this work Carlo FALCINI, 1793-1865, was an artist born in XIX, he was active/lived in Italy. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Carl Haag’s COFFEE SERVICE, with footnotes, #101
Carl Haag (20 April 1820 – 24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and was trained in the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and at Munich. He first…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Maarten Kemper’s Waalhaven, With Footnotes, #334
The Waalhaven is one of the dug harbors on the left bank of the Maas in Rotterdam. With its area of 310 ha. it is the largest dug harbor basin in the world. The Waalhaven flows into the Nieuwe Maas and is therefore directly connected to the sea via the Scheur and the Nieuwe Waterweg. More on…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francesco Furini’s Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes, with Footnotes. #136
Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC) was a naval strategist, commander and the sister (and later spouse) and the successor of Mausolus, ruler of Caria. Mausolus was a satrap of the Achaemenid Empire, yet enjoyed the status of king or dynast of the Hecatomnid dynasty. After the death of her brother/husband, Artemisia reigned for two…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Rafaelle Berchtold’s Charlotte Gainsbourg, with Footnotes. #134
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is an English-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song “Lemon Incest” at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the…
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01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Maurizio Cattelan’s UNTITLED, with Footnotes – #42
Imbued with a profound sense of horror and urgency, Untitled is an image of death, subversion and iconoclasm powerfully rendered through Maurizio Cattelan’s unique language of extreme provocation. Executed in 2007, the life-size sculpture depicts a young girl dressed in a white nightgown, her hands nailed to wooden boards above her head in pseudo-crucifixion. The…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Knees and Arms, with footnotes # 130
Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (born Oct. 14, 1905, Berlin, Ger. — died Dec. 18, 2006, San Francisco, Calif.), celebrated the female form with her light-infused black-and-white nudes, which were distinctive for their clarity and carefully wrought details. Bernhard’s career took a pivotal turn after a chance meeting with photographer Edward Weston, who became her mentor. She joined…
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01 Marine Painting – Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s Leaving Port, wth Footnotes, #333
Edward Henry Fletcher was born in Hammersmith on the 23rd July 1857. He was the son of a Bengal river pilot, and having spent his early years in India, the family returned to England while he was still a boy. He was educated at the Christ’s Hospital and later at the Chelsea School of Art.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Winifred Knights’ The Deluge, with Footnotes – #193
You can see Noah’s Ark in the distant right while figures in the foreground scramble for higher ground. Steely gray water fills up the scene and dulls the landscape; keep in mind that this was painted shortly after the end of the First World War when Britain was still recovering. Art historian Georgina Coburn writes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christina Robertson’s Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova, with Footnotes. #133
Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia’s largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nabil Nahas’s COLOR BLIND, with Footnotes, #53
Lebanese artist Nabil Nahas has firmly established himself as a pioneer of abstraction through his unique use of color, texture and complex composition to create spellbinding canvases. Nahas received his MFA from Yale University in 1973, and although formally trained in Western painting, his work is inspired by a multiplicity of sources including nature and the geometric…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Paul Guiragossian’s Mother and Child in Mandorla, with Footnotes, #48
Child in Mandorla by Modern master Paul Guiragossian represents the artist’s quest to find harmony in both his works and his life. Seeking a balance between an expressionist touch that references reality and chromatic elements that express emotional movement and a new reality, the present work shows a deep precision in his brushstroke and composition,…
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