Tag: Artists
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09 Painting, Streets of Paris, Nine of Olga Novokhatska’s Parisian Cafés and Brasseries, with footnotes, Part #79
Located at the tip of Ile Saint-Louis, opposite Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, the Brasserie de l’Isle Saint-Louis welcomes you in its warm decor typical of Parisian brasseries of the 1930s. A family establishment that has seen three generations at the helm since the 1950s, the Brasserie de l’Isle Saint-Louis is still run by the same…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Merritt Chase’s Girl in Yellow, with Footnotes #179
Executed in rich, velvety pastel, A Girl in Yellow (The Yellow Gown) exemplifies the artist’s ability to move “beyond creating mere realistic likenesses to capture his subjects’ vitality, character, and spirit.” L.B. Fiser, William Merritt Chase. With a casual pose full of personality, including a defiant tilt of the chin and daring eye contact, Chase…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Paul Sieffert’s A MOMENT OF REPOSE and RECLINING NUDE, with footnotes # 172
Paul Sieffert, born in Paris on November 11, 1874 and died in 1957, was a French painter of nudes and portraits, and also an illustrator. He belonged to the French School. Paul Sieffert was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Gabriel Guay and Albert Maignan . He exhibited at the Salon since 1894, and at the Society…
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01 Work, Louis van Engelen’s Victory of Julius Caesar Over the Belgians, with footnotes
As Caesar arrived, likely in July 57 BC, the rumors of Belgae opposition proved true. The main part of the Roman army were in the midst of making camp along the river, while the two newest legions were bringing up the rear with the slow moving baggage train. Caesar sent out his cavalry to scout…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Long’s The Assyrian Captive, with Footnotes. #178
The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This is one of the many instances of the resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Kingdom of Israel was conquered…
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15 Works, Today, April 14th is artist Henri Lehmann’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #103
Henri Lehmann (14 April 1814–30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist. Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters in Hamburg. In 1831, at the age of 17, he travelled to Paris to…
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05 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Hilo Chen’s sunbathing on beaches or lounging in the Bath, with footnotes # 174
A first-generation photorealist, Hilo Chen is best known for his Pop art-reminiscent paintings of female figures sunbathing on beaches or lounging by pools. His highly sexualized figures often appear topless or nude and in close-up views, with the texture of their skin rendered in meticulous detail. Despite his focus on the female body, Chen says…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Henri Duvieux’s VIEW OF VENICE, with footnotes. #107
Henri Duvieux was born in 1855 in Paris. He entered his artistic studies as a student of Marilhat and after his debut at the Paris Salon in 1880 he continued to depict representations of Venice and Constantinople throughout his career. Duvieux was influenced by the considerable nineteenth-century interest in Orientalism but he chose to concentrate his…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jane Peterson’s In a Café, with footnotes, Part #78
This character study of a sophisticated, elegantly-dressed woman nestled in the corner of a Parisian café near a samovar is one of the most ambitious early figurative paintings by the American painter). Although best known today for her sunny floral and garden views as well as her colorful scenes of Gloucester, Peterson devoted considerable energy…
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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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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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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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