Tag: Artists
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Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, L’INDISCRET/ INDISCREET 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #19
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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Jean Dufy, PARIS, MONTMARTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 68 – With Footnotes
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian Beauty 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Egyptian Beauty, with Footnotes. #88
Long visited Cairo in 1875 during an extensive trip to Egypt and Syria which began in 1874. This was a turning point in his career when he began to paint scenes of Babylonian and Egyptian history rather than his earlier Spanish subject. Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was an English…
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Charles Camoin, Portrait of Jeanne Loviton, known as Jean Voilier 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #87
Jean Voilier, whose real name is Jeanne Loviton , Was a French publisher and novelist. Jeanne Loviton was born on April 1st, 1903 in Paris, of unknown father. Her mother was an artist known as Denise Fleury. In 1913 she married the publisher Ferdinand Loviton who adopts Jean the same year. Jeanne wass a high…
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Federico del Campo, A View of The Scuola Grande di San Marco, 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #77
The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice. It was originally the home to one of the Scuole Grandi of Venice, or six major confraternities, but is now the city’s hospital. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city. The edifice was built by the…
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SALAH YOUSRI, CITYSCAPE 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #18
Salah Yousri, was born in Cairo in 1923 and graduated with a degree from the Fine Arts School of Cairo in 1947. Upon his graduation, Yousri had a solo exhibition at Galerie Goldemberg in Cairo, and later on left for Paris to study in the atelier of famed Parisian cubist artist Andre Lhote. It is through…
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Fabio Mauri, Jewish 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 76
The symbol is branded along with a number of marks of racial discrimination. The artistic expression of these works with the horrific reality which is evoked. Judaism has an explicit and radical ideological connotation, with a strong accent not only on the negative aspects of Nazi German, but also on the entire European culture That, for…
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Gazbia Sirry, HOUSES ON THE NILE, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #17
Gazbia Sirry (born 1925) is an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts and became a professor in the painting department of the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University. Gazbia is considered one of the leading Egyptian artists, with a varied and innovative career of more than 50 years. Serry’s art expressed the…
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Lavinia Fontana, Mars and Venus 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 64 – With Footnotes
In a bedroom a man and a young woman pose as Mars and Venus. She is completely naked and looks back: she stares at us and hands us a narcissus flower. He has only his helmet on his head and a drape covers his private parts: he looks at her and, almost frightened, puts his…
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Eugen von Blaas, Girl at the Window 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #86
A young woman is leaning against the balustrade of a Venetian home. The delicacy of the rose held in her hand is reflected in her innocent features. Von Blaas strove to capture the inherent beauty of Italian women by capturing them in their conversations in the streets, selling flowers or courting with lovers. The artist’s…
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Nuri İyem, ÜÇ ELTILER (THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW) 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #16
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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Gerda Wegener, Danish, Les femmes fatales, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Gerda Wegener, with Footnotes. #85
A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant and hypnotise her victim with a spell was in the earliest…
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Renato Guttuso, Partigiana iugoslava/ Yugoslav Partisan, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 75
The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. It is considered to be Europe’s most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II, often compared to the Polish…
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Auguste Pinchart, MATERNITÉ TUNISIENNE/ TUNISIAN MOTHERHOOD 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #53
Emile Auguste Pinchart was a French painter of portraits and genre and followed the tradition of an idealised vision of life during La Belle Epoque, in the style of Tissot and his followers. His light and natural palette reflects a sentiment of delightful charm. A pupil of Gerome, he exhibited at the Salon de Paris, obtaining…
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Jean Dufy, L’Institut et la Passerelle des Arts, 1929 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 67 – With Footnotes
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the “Palais des Arts” under the First French Empire). The bridge has sometimes served as a…
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Lev Tchistovsky, Reclining Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 74
Lev Tchistovsky (1902-1969) was a Russian figurative painter specialised in feminine nudes. He first trained at the Fine Art School in Saint-Petersbourg, where he was a pupil of Savinsky and Eberling. Laureate of his school, he left USSR in 1925 and took classes at the Fine Arts School in Roma and after in Florence. He met…
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Jiang Nan, Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 73
Jiang Nan: Born in 1977 in China’s Jiangsu Province, Lu Xinjian began weaving himself into the art world through the outlet of design, earning a degree from the Computer Graphic Design Department of Nanjing Arts Institute in China in 2000, and holding a teaching position at the College of Arts and Design at Yeungnam University…
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Léon Cauvy, MARKET IN ALGERIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #52
Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings, although his interests soon turned to decorative work. Later, he went to Paris and spent some…
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Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, Consuelo 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, with Footnotes. #85
Consuelo ( Barcelona , 1888 – Barcelona, 1905 ) was a model of Gypsy ethnic group that had a close relationship with Isidre Nonell . The painter repeatedly portrayed her between 1901 and 1905, until she died tragically at seventeen. In the middle of the year 1900, Isidre Nonell returned from Paris to Barcelona. In a shared…
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Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière, ARAB WOMEN BY THE OASIS 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #51
Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière was born in Paris on May 1, 1864 died in Moret sur Loing on January 14, 1945. -Ecole Française A pupil of Jules Lefèvre, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant, he began in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was named Sociétaire in 1898. Honorable mention at the Universal…
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