Tag: Artists
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Willy Aractingi, UNTITLED, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #13
Willy Aractingi, (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was born in New York in 1930, Aractingi was raised in Cairo, studied in Grasse, before finally settling in Beirut in the late 1940s. Aractingi undertook painting at a very young age. His works are often differentiated by his use of unique colour gradations, bold pigments and recurring use of nature. Aractingi’s…
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Philip Pearlstein, Seated nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67
Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art…
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Ali Banisadr , STARDUST 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #11
Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art’s Top 100 Artists of 2011 Originally, from Tehran Banisadr moved with his family when he was twelve to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a…
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Emile BERNARD, Two Venetians on the Salute Bridge 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #74
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal,…
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Alex Katz, Vivien 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #81
Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world. After returning from a period in the navy in 1946, he…
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Pierre Bonnard, Rue Tholozé 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Tholozé Street is one of the trendy streets of the Abbesses district. It owes it’s celebrity to it’s proximity to Montmartre, and the Moulin de la Galette. This street, 185 meters long and 8 meters wide, owes its name to a general who was famous during the conquest of Algeria, Henri Alexis Tholozé (1781-1853). Pierre Bonnard (3…
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Herman-Maurice Cossmann, LA BELLE MAROCAINE/ THE PRETTY GIRL FROM MOROCCO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #78
Born in Germany, Herman-Maurice Cossmann studied painting and etching at the studio of Eugene Lepoitevin. He began exhibiting his art at the Salon de Paris in 1845. Herman-Maurice Cossmann moved permanently to that city and became a French citizen several years later. Most of Cossmann’s art is in the medium of etching, where he excelled in…
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Nico Jungman, Stefi Geyer 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #80
Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation. Born in 1888 in Budapest, the daughter of a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with…
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Mounir Fatmi, Evolution or Death (Phoebe) 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #254
Mounir Fatmi examines human vulnerability. He constructs visual environments (comprising such objects as saw blades, stereo speakers, construction hard hats, and flags) and plays with language in a way that questions preconceptions of politics and religion and unearths injustices buried by history. In his 2009 work The Machinery, 30 aggressive-looking industrial saw blades are inscribed with…
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Rachid Talbi; Fantasia marocaine, Benimellal/ Moroccan fantasia 02 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #96
Beni Mellal is a Moroccan city located in the country’s interior. It is the capital of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region. It sits at the foot of Jbel Tassemit, and next to the plains of Beni Amir. The walls of the city go back to Moulay Ismail, in 1688. More on Beni Mellal Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in…
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Sacha Goldberger; Catarina 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 64
Sacha Goldberger, born in 1968, transforms his sitters from modern day beings into Flemish-style superheroes. His portraits are created using 17th century techniques including the use of light and shadow to highlight the figures. Mixing themes of Flemish paint techniques and modern day models, Goldberger presents his characters in a nostalgic, yet refreshing manner. More on Sacha…
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Nicolas Senegas; Sotto Voce 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 63
The present work features a seated figure with her chest exposed and her face turned away from the viewer. The title of the work, “Sotto Voce” is the action of intentionally lowering one’s voice for emphasis, as if to say something under the breath. “Sotto Voce” is a study in the human form and the…
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Sir Muirhead Bone, MIDNIGHT IN VENICE 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #73
Sir Muirhead Bone, (born March 23, 1876, Glasgow, Scotland—died October 21, 1953, Ferry Hinksey, Oxford, England), Scottish artist who is best known as an etcher and drypoint engraver of architectural subjects. Bone first studied architecture and then art at the Glasgow School of Art. Attracted to the picturesque aspect of buildings, he began to depict…
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Ralph Gibson; SELECTED NUDE STUDIES OF LISA 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes #62
Ralph Gibson, (born January 16, 1939, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American photographer whose work reveals a fascination for geometric elements found in everyday life, such as the meeting of two walls or the curve of a human arm. Gibson grew up in Los Angeles, leaving home to enlist in the U.S. Navy at the age…
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Neil Boyle, Your Place or Mine 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Born in Alberta, Canada, Neil Boyle (1931-2006) received formal art training in Alberta at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in the 1950s before teaching art for several years at the California Art Institute in Thousand Oaks, California. Over the next decade, Boyle provided story illustrations for…
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SEIF WANLY, UNTITLED 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, 12
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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Jozef Danyi, Mumie 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #79
Mummy, body embalmed, naturally preserved, or treated for burial with preservatives after the manner of the ancient Egyptians. The process varied from age to age in Egypt, but it always involved removing the internal organs (though in a late period they were replaced after treatment), treating the body with resin, and wrapping it in linen bandages.…
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Eugène Narbonne, Menton 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 61
In this scene of Menton, on the French Riviera, the sunny port, and the hilly medieval old town crowned by the Basilique Saint-Michel, with its 18th-century bell tower, are of secondary interest to the large bathing beauties basking on the sand in the foreground. More on this painting Menton, town, Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur region, southeastern France. Situated…
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Giuseppe Aureli, Peasants in Harvest on Country Road 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Giuseppe Aureli (December 5, 1858 in Rome – 1929) was an Italian painter and watercolourist. His work is noted for its historical subject matter, portraits of Italian noble families as well as genre paintings and local scenes, especially work with Oriental themes. Giuseppe Aureli was born in Rome in 1858. He received his early art…
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Maurice Taquoy, Deux femmes fumant/ Two smoking women 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 60
Born in the Marne region, Maurice Taquoy (1878-1952) spent much of his life in and around Paris, mostly in elegant company and at horse racing tracks. When summer came Taquoy would make excursions to other racing venues, such as Deauville, where his services as program illustrator were valued. And while his biotope was mostly that of the…
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