Tag: Artists
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19 Works, Today, January 15th is Giovanni Segantini’s day, his story, illustrated #015
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858–28 September 1899) was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century. He was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. Giovanni was born at Arco in Trentino, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the first seven years of his life, his…
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10 Works, Today, January 12th is Jean Béraud’s day, his story, illustrated #012
Jan van Goyen, Goyen also spelled Goijen, in full Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, (born January 13, 1596, Leiden, Netherlands — died April 27, 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at…
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10 Works, Today, January 12th is Jean Béraud’s day, his story, illustrated #012
Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 — October 4, 1935) was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the “Belle Époque”. He also painted…
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12 Works, Today, January 11th is Domenico Ghirlandaio’s day, his story, illustrated #011
Domenico Ghirlandaio (2 June 1448–11 January 1494), was the eldest of eight children. He was at first apprenticed to his father, who was a goldsmith. Domenico made portraits of the passers-by and visitors to his father’s shop. He was eventually apprenticed in Florence to Andrea del Verrocchio. He maintained a close association with other Florentine…
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10 Works, Today, January 10th is Lydie Arickx’s day, her story, illustrated #010
Lydie Arickx, (born 10 January 1954) is a French artist. After studying at the School of Graphic Arts (FASE) under Roland Topor from 1974 to 1978, she gave her first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Jean Briance Gallery, with pastel and oil paintings. By the early 1980s, she participated in international events such as…
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11 Works, Today, January 9th is Albert Baertsoen’s day, his story illustrated #009
Albert Baertsoen (9 January 1866–9 June 1922) was a Belgian painter, pastellist and graphic artist; born in Ghent. Belgium was the most industrialized nations in 19th century Europe, and Ghent was a city known for its textile mills. Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, Today, January 8th is Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s day, his story illustrated #008
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836–25 June 1912), was born in the village of Dronryp in the north of the Netherlands. The Tadema family moved in 1838 to the nearby city of Leeuwarden. His father died when Lourens was four, leaving his mother with five children… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #39; Alaa Ismail, Untitled
Iraqi born Alaa Ismail (1974) started practicing the art of calligraphy from a young age. He studied various artistic disciplines at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Baghdad, including decorative arts, Islamic architecture, glass painting and Islamic Art, graduating in 2003. Currently living in Damascus, Syria, Ismail has taught and lead many projects looking…
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 98; Henry Strater, Happy Birthday Adam
Henry Strater came of age in the Lost Generation after the first World War. He attended Princeton. He later went to Paris in the 1920s to study at the Academy Grande Chaumiere and with Edouard Vuillard.Strater was a versatile painter and his portraits, watercolors and other realistic works are or have been displayed at the Philadelphia Museum…
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10 Works, Today, January 6th is Baldassare Verazzi’s day, his story illustrated #005
Baldassare Verazzi (6 January 1819–18 January 1886) was born in Caprezzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont. He studied at the Academy of Brera at Milan from 1833 to 1842, then under the Venetian Romantic painter Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) in 1851, and participated in several exhibitions in Turin and Milan… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, Today January 5th is Theodoor Verstraete’s day, #005
Theodoor Verstraete, also spelled Theodor Verstraete and Théodore Verstraete (5 January 1850–8 January 1907) was a Belgian Realist painter and printmaker who is known for his landscapes depicting life in the countryside as well as his paintings of the Belgian coastal landscape. He has been called the ‘poet of rural life’ who depicted the humble…
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12 Works, Today January 4th is Augustus Edwin John’s day, #004
Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878–31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain… Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, Today January 3rd is August Robert Ludwig Macke’s day #003
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887–26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as…
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Alfred Henry Maurer; La Pont De La Concorde and a View of The Palais Bourbon. 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 73
Pont de la Concorde, stone-arch bridge crossing the Seine River in Paris at the Place de la Concorde. The masterpiece of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, conceived in 1772, the bridge was not begun until 1787 because conservative officials found the design too daring. Perronet personally supervised construction despite his advanced age; he was 82 when the work…
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Au lit: Le baiser. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern,…
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; Gitane à la mandoline/ Gypsy with mandolin; 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #99
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting. In 1825 to 1828 Corot made the…
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Zofia Atteslander, Portrait of a lady, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #98
Zofia Atteslander (12 March 1874 in Luborzyca – c. 1928 in Berlin) was a Polish painter, active from 1889–1928 in inter alia Berlin, Paris and Wiesbaden. Primarily she began studying privately with Jacek Malczewski in Kraków, later with Franz von Lenbach, Heinrich Knirr (1862–1944), with Stanisław Grocholski in Munich, and since 1902 with Adolf Hölzel in…
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Nabil Anani; Qur’anic Pages; 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #38
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement.On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and a…
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VERA ROCKLINE, NUDE WITH NECKLACE; 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 97
Véra Rockline (1896 – 4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Rockline started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students. In 1918 she became an apprentice at Aleksandra Ekster’s studio in Kiev, Ukraine. Ekster, who personally knew Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire…
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