Tag: Artists
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01 Orientalist Painting, Narcisse Berchère’s Horseman at the camp, with footnotes, #110
Narcisse Berchère (11 September 1819, Étampes – 20 September 1891, Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known for his Orientalist works.His initial studies were at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux [fr]. Later, he worked in the studios of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. He spent much of his working life in Paris; making…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, FRANCESCA WOODMAN, with Footnotes. #147
This photograph was taken in 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island during which time Woodman was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This image belongs to a series of five photographs titled the Polka Dot series, which were all shot in the same interior space with Woodman wearing the same polka dot…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri Adrien Tanoux’s Tambourine odalisque, with footnotes, #109
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 works PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Wonder Woman, with Footnotes. #145
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825–19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Leon Kroll’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 139
Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. Known as a figurative artist, Life Magazine described him as “the dean of U.S. nude painters,” yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. He studied at the Art Students League of…
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33 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists Goodall, Swoboda, Fromentin, Robertson, Haddon, Courdouan, Ungewitter, Schreyer, Maltese, Colman, Cirou, Keyser, Laporte, Dauzats, Hemsbach, Mancini, Fabbi, Joanovitch, Mann, Flint, Ambros, Makovski, Gustavino, and Eisenhut, with footnotes, #7
Frederick Goodall RA (London 17 September 1822–29 July 1904) was an English artist, born in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy. Frederick’s first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Leo Putz’s BACKSTAGE, with footnotes, Part 87
Painted in 1905, this monumental early work of cancan dancers at ease backstage is among Putz’s most ambitious compositions. Inspired by his stay in Paris, Backstage is a masterful evocation of the French capital’s demi-monde that was the source of fascination to so many painters, most famously Toulouse Lautrec. Putz would have frequented Pigalle’s many…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Candy Darling, with Footnotes. #141
Candy Darling — 1944–1974 was born into an alcoholic household in Queens, N.Y. where she lived with her mother after her parents’ divorce. Darling, who was assigned male at birth, spent hours watching and studying old movies on TV. It was by impersonating her favorite actresses that she discovered herself. With milky white skin and large brown…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Shakir Hassan Al-Said’s Untitled (Town), with Footnotes, #55
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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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri-Léopold Lévy’s Phoenix, with footnotes, #108
In Ancient Greek folklore, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Detail; Transparent, with footnotes # 137
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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11 Works, November 22nd. is Consuelo Fould’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239
Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a former actress who practiced sculpture with Mathieu-Meunier, also professor of Sarah Berhnardt… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice, Emile Bernard’s On a bridge in Venice , with foot notes. #74
In this large canvas, Bernard combines an almost life-size representation of Venetians in the foreground, with the evocation of the City of the Doges in the background. The airy elegance of the Veronese colors of the women and children dressed in bright colors circulating on the bridgea. The architectural background is almost monochromatic, a kind…
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12 Works, November 21st. is Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #238
The picture is a concentrate of observations on travels 1869–70 and 1874–75 to Turkey, Greece and Egypt and must be described as one of Jerichau Baumann’s masterpieces. It is carried by a sensuality and coloristic boldness that is atypical of the Danish art of the period, but less marked by the pointed ethnocentrism that characterizes…
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01 Painting, The amorous games, Francesco Vinea’s Merriment in the tavern, Part 78 – With Footnotes
Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 – Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects. He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without a home. He worked for a photographer, also as…
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19 Works, November 15th. is Aniello Falcone’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #235
Aniello Falcone (15 November 1600–1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Naples and noted for his painted depictions of battle scenes. Some sources refer to him as Ancillo Falcone. Born in Naples the son of a tradesman, he showed his artistic tendency at an early age. He first received some instruction from a relative,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Laureano Barrau Buñol’s Les plaisirs de Paris, with footnotes, Part 86
Belle Époque Paris was a city full of pleasures. A celebrated pocket guide to the city’s newest and newsworthy haunts, aptly titled Les plaisirs de Paris (written by the journalist Alfred Delvau and first published 1867), an advertisement for which is visible at the center of the painting, promised readers entrée into la ville du…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice; Friedrich Paul Nerly’s Veduta di Venezia/ View of Venice, with footnotes. #103
Friedrich Nerly or Federico Nehrlich (October 26, 1842 – 1919) was a german painter who specialized in seascapes. Nerly was of Prussian nationality. He completed his first studies with his father, a well known landscape artist. He later enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. In 1862–65 and in 1866, he served in the…
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by the Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
It seems that since the Musee dÓrsay’s Exhibition, everybody had something to say! Here are some Paintings that were in the exhibition, and others… Please follow link for full post
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