Tag: Art
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01 Marine Painting, Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s On the Thames at Blackwall, with Footnotes, #332
Blackwall is a locale in East London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also forms part of the Port of London and the conservation area of Coldharbour. Blackwall’s name presumably derives from the colour of the river wall, built in the Middle Ages with its stairs. It was known as Blackwall by at…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Jack Lestrade’s Venice, with footnotes. #99
Jack Lestrade was born in South West France, in Gascony, in 1932 He has always been attracted to traveling to special places to do what he likes the most, painting. Self-taught, he spent five years in Canada and more than forty years in the United States of America. He became well established as an internationally respected…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Conor’s MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, with Footnotes. #126
William Conor OBE RHA PPRUA ROI (1881–1968) was a Belfast-born artist. Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s. His artistic talents were recognized at the early age of ten when a teacher of music noticed the merit…
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01 Marine Photograph – Kasia Derwinska’s He promised to come back, with Footnotes, #331
Melancholy: The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sea Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as…
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05 Paintings, The amorous game, The Unequal Lovers, Part 76 – With Footnotes
The theme of unequal lovers has a long literary history, but in the visual arts it most often appeared in prints, usually accompanied by a moralizing inscription. The theme took two different forms, that of an old woman soliciting a handsome young man, and, more commonly, an old man soliciting a pretty young woman. Here…
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03 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – Ports of Call, with Footnotes
Palazzo donn’anna, in the background, is a historical residence palace in naples, italy Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria — 1942 in Naples) was an Italian painter. He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy,…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nasser Ovissi’s Thorses, with Footnotes, #47
Nasser Ovissi is an American-Iranian painter whose work is characterized by stylized figures of Arabic women and horses. Set amidst geometric patterns and decorative elements, his figures seem to merge into and out of the space behind them. “My work is dedicated to the beauty of life and I hope those who experience my work…
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05 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian/Roman legend, Ceri Richards’ Rape of the Sabines, with footnotes #24
The theme of the rape of the Sabine women, taken from Roman legend, was a recurring subject in academic history painting. The story of the abduction of the women of the Sabine tribe by the men of Rome in order to populate the city presented a theme through which Richards could further his interest in…
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03 Orientalist Paintings, Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes, #100
The title of this painting refers to the Arabic word analeim, meaning learned woman, which originally applied to professional female improvisers of songs and poems. By 1850, the term meant virtually any woman dancer. Their alluring dances, accompanied as shown here by musician playing a two-stringed cello. European travelers came to think of these dances…
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1 Religious Icon, Sano di Pietro’s Saint Margaret, with footnotes #16
Margaret is celebrated as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches on July 20 and on July 17 in the Orthodox Church. Her historical existence has been questioned. She was declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I in 494, but devotion to her revived in the West with the Crusades. She was reputed to have…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138
Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his…
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09 works, Today, August 28th, is Moses the Black’s day, his story illustrated #240
Moses the Black (330–405), also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian , and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. Moses was a servant of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hossein Kazemi’s Tar Player, with Footnotes, #46
A Tar is an Iranian long-necked string instrument, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures. This is in accordance with a practice common in Persian-speaking areas of distinguishing lutes on the basis of the number of strings originally employed. More on a TarA leading and pioneer Iranian Modern artist, Hossein Kazemi moved away from the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Gabrielle Renard with Footnotes. #132
Between 1907 and 1911, Renoir painted several canvases that depict Gabrielle Renard, the principal model and muse of his late years, loosely clad in a semi-transparent white chemise that falls open to reveal her ample form. In the present canvas, Gabrielle is seated at a small mirrored dressing table, languorously adjusting a scarf in her hair;…
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8 Works by Louis Icart, Honoré Daumier, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, , Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, with footnotes
Louis Icart Laurent Justin , born in 1888 in Toulouse and died in 1950 in Paris , is a painter, engraver and illustrator. Impressed by its designer, his aunt made the move to Paris: she showed his work to the House Valmont, milliner to the Belle Époque . Louis Icart was then introduced in the illustration media for…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE, with Footnotes
The Battle of Flores was a naval engagement of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 fought off the Island of Flores between an English fleet of 22 ships under Lord Thomas Howard and a Spanish fleet of 53 ships under Alonso de Bazán. Sent to the Azores to capture the annual Spanish treasure convoy, when a stronger…
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01 Sculpture, Olympian deities, Scipione Tadolini’s GREEK SLAVE, with footnotes
About the sculpture. This elegantly conceived figure of a Greek Slave is one of Scipione Tadolini’s defining masterpieces. Tadolini was the eldest son and inheritor of Antonio Canova’s principal studio assistant, Adamo Tadolini, and, like his father, he rapidly emerged as one of the leading sculptors in Rome during his lifetime. The superbly carved and…
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19 Works, Aug 19th. is Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #196
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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