Tag: Artists
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Gustav Klimt; The Kiss; 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In…
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Georges Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange, The Escape, 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
George Louis Poilleux Saint-Ange was a French painter born June 20, 1853 in Paris and died in 1911 at the age of 58 years.He was a member of the French School and student of Isidore Pils , being influenced by his style. Poilleux Sant’Angelo is oriented on military painting , the history of painting and…
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Théodore Chassériau, Two half-naked women, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 140
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.Chassériau was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). In December 1820 the family left…
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Youssef Nabil, EHSAN CRYING, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #37
Youssef Nabil (born 6 November 1972) is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Nabil started his photography career in 1992. In 1997, Nabil worked in Paris with the Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino till late 1998. In 1999, Youssef Nabil had his first solo exhibition in Cairo. Nabil left Egypt in 2003 for an artist residency at the…
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Lawrence Alma Tadema, A Foregone Conclusion, c. 1885, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 58 – With Footnotes
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions…
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Youssef Nabil, MY BED, FIFI ABDOU, 01 Photograph, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #36
Fifi Abdou, born Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim, April 26, 1953, is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She has been described as “synonymous with belly dancing in the years she was performing.” In her acting career, she is known as the woman-empowering type where, rarely in Egyptian culture and film, she beats up and overpowers…
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Helmut Newton, Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 96
Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.She was cast in the role of Meredith…
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Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 21 December 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. He was brought up by his mother’s sister, who had married a well-off shipowner and…
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Adrien LeMayeur, Women with parasols 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 143
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (9 February 1880 – 31 May 1958) was a Belgian painter from Brussels who lived the last part of his life in Bali. Le Mayeur came to Bali at Singaraja in 1932. He then stayed in Denpasar and was fascinated by what remained then of Balinese culture, including the Balinese people’s…
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, RIDERS CROSSING THE DESERT 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from…
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Seif Waly, ALEXANDRIA BEACH 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #35
Seif Waly (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter, born Mohammed Seif al-Din Waly into an aristocratic family, of Turkish origin, in Alexandria, Egypt. He was introduced to modern art after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham Wanly…
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Johann Baptist Reiter, Lady Holding Red Blanket 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #127
Johann Baptist Reiter (28 May 1813, Linz – 10 January 1890, Vienna) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter of the Biedermeier period. He spent three years as an apprentice at his father’s company, painting furniture, signs and crosses. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. After 1830, he largely earned his living as…
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Ulpiano Checa, Rainy day in Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 72
Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz (April 3, 1860 – January 5, 1916), known as Ulpiano Checa, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer and illustrator. He used both impressionistic and academic techniques, and mainly painted historical subjects. He was born in Colmenar de Oreja, Spain, and exhibited a talent for art when he was a young…
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Richard D’Amore, NUDE ON EAGLE, 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 145
Richard D’Amore dedicated more than thirty years to fine art photography, distinguishing himself as a master printer. In 1970, D’Amore relocated to France with his brother to work and study. During this time, he taught photography at Camberwell College of Art in London. D’Amore’s work was featured in fine publications. Upon returning to the United States in the late 1970s, Mr. D’Amore continued…
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Umberto Lilloni; Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #79
Umberto Lilloni (Milan, 1898–1980) was an Italian painter. Lilloni interrupted his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1917 when World War I broke out. Alternating landscape with figure painting in the 1920s, he received his first official recognition with the Prince Umberto Prize in 1927. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in…
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Nuri İyem, UNTITLED, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #34
Nuri İyem, (1915 – d. 18 June 2005 ) was a leading figure in the Turkish painting and social-realistic art movement. Nuri İyem was born in Istanbul in 1915. During his childhood he used to paint walls with charcoal. Because of his father’s job as a health official, İyem spent his childhood in various cities of…
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JOHN BRATBY,PAT IN THE BATH 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 95
John Randall Bratby RA (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992) was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. He made portraits of his family and celebrities. His works were seen in television and film. Bratby was also a writer. John Bratby was born…
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Richard D’Amore, Untitled 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 71
Richard D’Amore dedicated more than thirty years to fine art photography, distinguishing himself as a master printer. In 1970, D’Amore relocated to France with his brother to work and study. During this time, he taught photography at Camberwell College of Art in London. D’Amore’s work was featured in fine publications. Upon returning to the United States in the late 1970s, Mr. D’Amore continued…
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Jean Dufy, La danse 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 71
The Cirque Medrano is a French circus that was located at the edge of Montmartre, in what was then the edge of the City of Paris, under the name “Cirque Fernando”. The title “Cirque Medrano” is still active today: it is now a successful French traveling circus. The Parisian circus was created by a Belgian circus…
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Victor Pierre Huguet, AT THE WADI 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #60
Wadi is the Arabic term referring to a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season. Victor Pierre Huguet, born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in…
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