Tag: Artists
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Manolo Valdés’ Odalisque with white and orange face, with Footnotes. #153
Manolo Valdés (born March 8, 1942) is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture, and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony. Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia on March 8, 1942. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Flemish School’s Helena Fourment, with Footnotes. #111
Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She was the subject of a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for other religious and mythological paintings. Helena was the youngest child of Daniël I Fourment, a wealthy Antwerp silk and carpet…
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12 Works, Today, April 19th is artist Emanuel Krescenc Liška’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #108
Fox, Emanuel Krescenc (19 April 1852, in Mikulovice — 18 January 1903, in Prague) was a Bohemian painter and illustrator. Most of his works were on religious themes, but he also created scenes from works of poetry… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Émile Bernard’s AU HAREM with footnotes, #14
Harem a sacred inviolable place; for female members of the family. Harem properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations. Similar institutions have been common in other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, especially among royal and upper-class families…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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01 Orientalist Painting, John Frederick Lewis’ Veiled Egyptian Girl, with footnotes, #15
John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804 – 15 August 1876) was an Orientalist English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in exquisitely detailed watercolour or oils. Lewis lived for several years in a traditional mansion in Cairo, and (after his return to England) painted highly detailed works showing both realistic genre scenes of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Omar El Nagdi’s The Grand Market, with Footnotes, #50
Painter, musician and director Omar El Nagdi was born in Cairo in 1931 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, after which he continued his art education in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. In the 1960s, he initiated a series of works for which he is still renowned today –…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon’s Zattere, Venice , with footnotes. #88
The Zattere was built in 1519 and first used as a landing dock for the delivery of timber used to construct ships and buildings, which gave the quay the name Zattere, Italian for raft. The timber gone, the Zattere today is a spacious promenade that runs along the entire southern shore of Venice’s Dorsoduro District, from…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adam Styka’s THE LOVERS, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Adam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) , was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris’ Salon de Paris,…
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11 Works, Today, April 10th is artist Jules Girardet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #99
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was briefly kept prisoner on a warship in Plymouth Sound. The harbour became packed as crowds flocked to see their defeated enemy. Now the city is commemorating this most unlikely, and involuntary, of south coast holidays. More on Napoleon in Plymouth Sound Jules Girardet (10…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Omar El Nagdi’s Gamilla, with Footnotes, #49
Painter, musician and director Omar El Nagdi was born in Cairo in 1931 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, after which he continued his art education in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. In the 1960s, he initiated a series of works for which he is still renowned today –…
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10 Works, Today, April 9th is artist Francisco Rizi’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #98
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 of the 17th–century Catholic church,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, DOROTHEA LANGE’s Migrant Mother , with Footnotes. #110
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Both her parents were Cherokee. The family lived on a small farm in Indian Territory outside of Tahlequah. Seventeen-year-old Florence married Cleo Owens, a 23-year-old farmer’s son from Stone County, Missouri, on February 14, 1921. They soon had their first…
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02 Photographs , The Art Of The Nude, by HELMUT NEWTON, , with footnotes # 114
During the 1980s, Newton completed his now internationally renowned ‘Naked & Dressed’ series, which he later described as the most technically difficult series of pictures he ever produced… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, Today, April 7th is artist Ferdinand Leeke’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #96
Ferdinand Leeke (1859–1923) was a German painter best known for his illustrations of Richard Wagner’s operas and other mythological scenes. Born on April 7, 1859 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany. Around 1889 Siegfried Wagner, son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series based on ten different operas written by his father…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Édouard Manet’s Berthe Morisot, with Footnotes. #109
Berthe Morisot was the first lady of Impressionism, she first exhibited in the Salon de Refuse in 1864 set up by Napoleon 3 to show work rejected by the Academy. Berthe and her sister Edma trained together, they visited the Louvre to study, for three years they studied with their tutor Guichard. Undervalued for over a century,…
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15 Works, Today, April 6th is artist John William Waterhouse’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #95
John William Waterhouse RA (6 April 1849–10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style and subject matter. His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by John Bratby, with footnotes. #87
John Randall Bratby, (born July 19, 1928, Wimbledon, Surrey. — died July 20, 1992, Hastings, East Sussex), was a British painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s as a member of the Kitchen Sink School, a group of British social-realist artists who paralleled the literary Angry Young Men of the decade. Although he was accepted at…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Gale’s Captured Runaway, with Footnotes. #108
The Captured Runaway shows a female slave or indentured servant held captive by a male bounty-hunter. Her expression of fear and distress, with eyes upturned seemingly in hope of spiritual salvation, speaks of her fear of the cruel punishment that will await her when she is returned to the household or plantation estate from which she…
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20 Works, Today, April 3rd is artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #92
The Battle of Mazagran was a combat between Arab and Berber forces against French troops during the French conquest of Algeria. The small French contingent, holed up in a fortification at Mazagran, near the port city of Mostaganem, withstood several days of assault by `Abd al-Qādir’s troops. Unaware that the French defenders were running short…
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