Tag: Artists
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18 Works, Today, February 22nd. is artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #053
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806–18 June 1865) was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, February 21st. is artist Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #052
In this small painting commissioned by the subject’s nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory. More…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francesca Stern Woodma’s POLKA DOTS, with Footnotes. #103
Woodman’s polka-dot dress is a regular staple of her RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) period. She is wearing it in several self-portraits taken against the same wall, crouching as if to fit herself within the square frame or turning her back to the camera in a blurry jump. The dress appears in images made while studying…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Dia Azzawi’s Portrait of the Non Existent Bird, with Footnotes, #43
Born in Baghdad in 1939, Dia Azzawi started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree in archaeology from Baghdad University in 1962. In 1969, Azzawi (with Rafa Nasiri, Mohammad Muhriddin, Ismail Fattah, Hachem al-Samarchi and Saleh al Jumaie) formed the New Vision group…
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03 works , PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lewis Morley’s Christine Keeler, with Footnotes. #102
At the height of the Profumo affair in 1963, Keeler sat for a photographic portrait (Above) taken by Lewis Morley. The photo shoot, at a studio on the first floor of Peter Cook’s Establishment Club, with Morley was to promote a proposed film, The Keeler Affair, that was never released in the United Kingdom. Keeler…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #84
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (March 28, 1854 – September 7, 1930) was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, by Andreas Gleich, with footnotes # 102
Close-up/nude shot of a woman wearing only a hat on her head. This hat is best suited for breaking light and creating shadows.Andreas Gleich; “At the age of 12, my parents gave me a simple Agfa camera with built-in lens for Christmas. I have been photographing since that time. In the 1980s I worked as…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem’s Monk and Nun, Part 66 – With Footnotes
According to legend a nun was accused of having become pregnant. To verify this a monk had to squeeze her breast and if it produced milk she was guilty. But instead of milk she produced wine — the reason for the wine glass on the table. Instead of proving the nun’s guilt the miracle was…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part #81
The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the interior and…
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13 Works, February 15th. is artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #046
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (15 February 1831–13 June 1 June 1894) was a Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects. Nikolai Ge was born to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather who was a French nobleman immigrated to the Russian Empire…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Carol Jerrems’ Vale Street, with footnotes # 153
A quintessential image of the 1970s, ‘Vale Street’ has lost none of its capacity to enchant and disturb in the intervening years. In one sense it can be read as a sociological document; in another as a wholly subjective work of art. Like the mediumistic spirit-photographs of the nineteenth century, Jerrems’s photo seems to disclose…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Art, Eugène Péchaubès’ Fantasia, with footnotes, #83
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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19 Works, The Art Of The Nude by Norman Lindsay, with footnotes # 241
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879–21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, February 12th. is artist Adolphe Yvon’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #043
Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Shortly after the end of the Crimean War in September 1855, Yvon was commissioned by the French government to paint a…
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22 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded February 8th, 1587, with Footnotes. #185
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542–8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. During her…
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16 Works, February 7th. is artist Henry Fuseli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #038
The painting depicts the pivotal moment in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (act 1, scene 3) when the protagonist encounters a demonic trio of witches who foretell his fate. Fuseli revels in the play’s ominous mood, tripling the motif of hooded head, extended hand, and sealed lips of the mannish figures, whose appearance is taken directly from…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Louis Magre’s Banks of the Seine, Part #79
Louis Magre was born in Paris in 1955. As a teenager, he studied drawing and architecture, which he gradually gave up to concentrate solely on drawing. He currently lives in Provence, an area which fascinates him and which he loves to admire and paint. At the beginning of his career, he drew nudes and portraits…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Simone Leigh’s Las Meninas, with Footnotes. #70
Simone Leigh (born 1968) is an American artist from Chicago born to Jamaican parents who works in New York City. She works in various media including sculpture, video installation and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned…
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18 Works, Today, February 4th. is artist Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #035
Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, or Alessandro Rizzoni (4 February 1836, in Riga — 29 April 1902, in Rome) was a Russian painter of portraits and genre scenes; mostly on Catholic themes. He was born to an Italian family of artisans. He received his first lessons from his brother Pavel (1822–1913), who was also an artist. In 1852, he…
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12 Works, Today, February 3rd. is artist Robert Edward McGinnis’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #034
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment) (See below), Barbarella (See below), and several James Bond (See below) and Matt Helm films……
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