Tag: Artists
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NATALIE GOLDSTEIN, QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #97
Natalie Goldstein is a photographer. Having spent years in front of the camera as a model, Natalie developed her own unique understanding of the profession, both technically and artistically. Natalie’s eye is drawn to the aesthetics of the human form, beyond merely the body beautiful. Her subjects are poised and positioned to suggest Da Vinci’s divine…
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Sliman Mansour, ON THE EDGE, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #33
Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important work as an…
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Nana SR T; GOLD SPARKLE (V) 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 94
“I created this GOLD SPARKLE series inspired by movement, the power and beauty of transition, and reminiscing on the aesthetics of Art Deco which I adore. I have always had a great passion for the body as an instrument and very much enjoy capturing it in various ways with my camera” Nana Nana SR T was born…
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Eugène Fromentin, WINDSTORM 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #59
Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass, is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa and southern Europe. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum are the species used to produce esparto. More on Esparto Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was…
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Richard Larter, Jean #1 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 93
Richard Larter (19 May 1929 – 25 July 2014) was an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia’s few highly recognizable pop artists. Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works, and juxtaposing multiple images on…
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JOHN BELLANY, R.A., WOMAN OF ASCHAFFENBURG 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #96
Aschaffenburg is a district in Bavaria , Germany John Bellany CBE RA (18 June 1942 – 28 August 2013) was a Scottish painter. In 1968 Bellany graduated and his diploma show was hailed as great success. After graduation, Bellany was offered a teaching position at the Edinburgh College of Art but he carried on as a working…
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Mahmoud Sabri, CROSS BEARER , After Bosch 02 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #32
Mahmoud Sabri, 1927–2012, was an Iraqi painter, considered as one of the pioneers of Iraqi modern art and one of the pillars of modernism in Iraqi Art. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, died on 13th April 2012 in Maidenhead, England. Studied social sciences at Loughborough University (England) in the late 1940s. While in England, his interest…
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Tom Ouellette, Seated Nude II 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 92
Tom Ouellette was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954. With the aid of a National Merit Scholarship he attended Harvard University, and graduated in 1978. In 1982, after completing drawing courses, he decided to pursue a career in painting and entered The Art Institute of Boston, graduating with honors in 1985. Ouellette moved to New…
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Bana Safar, Syrian Portrait, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #95
Bana Safar, Syria, is a young Syrian artist graduated with Excellence from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 2001, the 1st in class for 4 years consecutively. From 2003 – 2006 She was professor assistant in the faculty of Fine Arts; Damascus and is a member of the Association of Fine Arts Damascus. She…
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Mahmoud Sabri, A FAMILY OF FARMERS 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #31
Mahmoud Sabri, 1927 – 2012, was an Iraqi painter, considered as one of the pioneers of Iraqi modern art and one of the pillars of modernism in Iraqi Art. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, died on 13th April 2012 in Maidenhead, England. Studied social sciences at Loughborough University (England) in the late 1940s. While in England, his…
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Farid Belkahia; JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #30
Farid Belkahia (1934–2014) was born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Marrakech. He grew up with his father’s art collection, and his further artistic awakening would take place within his father’s circle of friends. From about 1950, Belkahia took classes in Teslar’s studio. During these years, and prior to his departure from Morocco, Belkahia distanced himself…
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Benjamin Chambers Brown, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with footnotes. #80
Benjamin Chambers Brown (July 14, 1865 – January 19, 1942) was a California Impressionist landscape artist. He was one of their five children. He grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. Brown was trained as a photographer. He studied at the University of Tennessee, and later at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts under Paul Harney…
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Othman Khuzaim, Untitled 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #94
Othman Khuzaim (Saudi) is one of the prominent names of the first generations of Saudi artists who participated in the establishment of the visual art procession including Al-Saleem, Al-Ridawi, Nabila Al Bassam and Safia Bin Zaqer. He is a graduate of the Institute of art Education for Teachers in Riyadh and holds a Diploma of Fine Arts…
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Circle of August Theodor Schoefft; Crossing the Tigris 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #58
The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. August Theodor Schoefft (Hungarian, 1809-1888) was the son of a local portrait painter August Theodor Schoefft, born to German parents who…
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Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #113
Dorothea Margaret Tanning, American painter and writer (born Aug. 25, 1910, Galesburg, Ill. — died Jan. 31, 2012, New York, N.Y.), was a prominent Surrealist, but her artistic career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, to whom she was married for 30 years (1946–76); her own dreamlike imagery, however,…
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LAILA SHAWA, THE WELL 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #29
“The first painting made in Beirut not long after the devastating June war and the only known work of this type from 1967, The Well forgoes all allusion to landscape in favour of a hot expansive background of reds and yellows. Beneath the disc of a searing sun…” More on this work Laila Shawa (Born Gaza…
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Henry MALFROY, Paris, l’Arc de Triomphe 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 70 – With Footnotes
Honoring those who fought and died for France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile stands at the center of the present work by Jean Béraud, the master of Belle Époque Parisian painting. Béraud presents the prototypical view of the Champs-Élysées: fashionably dressed figures stroll under the trees and others ride…
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Charles Knight, SEATED FEMALE NUDE 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 91
Charles Knight, ROI VPRWS (1901-1990), a Sussex landscape painter, channelled the tradition of English watercolour painting in order to produce his own original contribution. As a result, he became a pillar of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours. His father, employed by a firm of Brighton publishers, was a keen naturalist and artist, and…
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Hedi Schick, A Seated Female Nude, with an Attendant 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 90
Hedi (Hedwig) Schick (1906 Vienna – 1999 London) was in her younger years strongly influenced by Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts), from which she graduated in the early 1930s (her name could be found among those of professional applied artists in the address book of Vienna…
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Mamdouh Kashlan, Women’s public bath in Damascus 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #28
A Hammam is a kind of bath that originated in the Middle East and combines exposure to warm air, then steam or hot-air immersion, massage, and finally a cold-water bath or shower. The Hammam typically requires movement from one room or chamber to the next. Separate wash rooms and soaking pools may be included in the…