Tag: Artists
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Mohammed “Hajji” Selim; Still Life 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #10
The present work is one of the most well-known examples of early Iraqi modernism painted by Mohammed “Hajji” Selim, father of prominent Iraqi painter Jewad Selim. Mohammed Selim was born in Baghdad. His parents were both originally from Mosel in the North of Iraq. Like many individuals from well to do families in Iraq, Selim was…
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Jean Dufy, Vue de Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 64 – With Footnotes
Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and Picasso, Dufy created watercolors that expressed a heightened understanding of color and light. In the mid-1920s, Jean Dufy became captivated by the…
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Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon, THE FORTUNE TELLER 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #77
In the Middle East, fortunetellers use tarot cards kept in red boxes and read coffee grounds and buy prophetic poems by medieval sages. In Iran, fortunetellers use jyotish (“the science of light”), a practice related to astrology that is said to have originated in Persia. Sessions often last two hours. Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon. Not only was…
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Charles West Cope, Taming the Shrew 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 58 – With Footnotes
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship; however, Petruchio “tames” her with various psychological torments, such as keeping her from…
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Nejib Belkhodja, MEDINA ENTRE DEUX ORAGES – MEDINA BETWEEN TWO STORMS 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes #9
Born in 1933, Nejib Belkhodja was the son of a Dutch opera singer and a Tunisian aristocrat of Turkish descent. The family lived in the medina of Tunis–a walled city within a city that was home to the rich and influential and often seen as the heartbeat of most North African cities. Even in the face of their…
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René Magritte, LA MAGIE NOIRE 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 59
La magie noire belongs to a group of works Magritte executed in the 1940s, on the subject of a female nude in an unidentified landscape. The woman is depicted in a classical manner. This traditional representation, however, is juxtaposed with the unexpected colouration of the figure, whose upper body gradually acquires the tone of the…
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John Randall Bratby; VENICE WASHING 01 Painting; the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #72
John Randall Bratby RA (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992). Despite inauspicious beginnings at Kingston School of Art (which he left upon failing an intermediate exam in arts and crafts), John Bratby’s enormous artistic potential soon earned him a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, and would see him become one of the…
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Mohamed Ehsai, MOHABBAT (KINDNESS) 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #7
Mohabbat–the Farsi word for kindness, compassion and sympathy–is a tribute to the sacred art of calligraphy, however in the present work, the word holds a more secular meaning. The writing turns into abstraction and the letters, which are overlaid and distributed in a circular and dense yet joyful composition, are no longer decipherable. The morphed…
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Vik Muniz, NYMPHEAS, AFTER CLAUDE MONET 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #6
“With photographs you can see history through your own eyes and you can make your own judgments and interpretations… When people look at one of my pictures, I don’t want them to actually see something represented. I prefer for them to see how something gets to represent something else.” Vik Muniz Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born…
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Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Marie Rapp 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #78
Marie Rapp was Alfred Stieglitz’s secretary at his 291 Gallery, and a lifelong friend. She not only helped run the gallery but assisted with the publication of Camera Work. He photographed her many times. A close friend and confidante, she was an excellent subject, her natural grace and beauty resulting in a touching image. More on this…
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Helmut Newton, Lisa Lyon 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #244
Lisa Lyon (born 1953) is a female bodybuilder and photo model from the United States, and is regarded as one of female bodybuilding’s pioneers. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953. Lisa Lyon studied art at the University of California at Los Angeles. There she became accomplished in the Japanese art of fencing, kendo, but found…
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Boris Georgiev, Haydarabad Princess Nilufar 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #77
Princess Begum Sahiba Niloufer Khanum Sultana Farhat of Hyderabad (4 January 1916 – 12 June 1989) was one of the last princesses of the Ottoman Empire. She was married to the second son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad in India. Niloufer was born at the Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, at a time when her…
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Mosè Bianchi, Common lady 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #76
Mosè Bianchi ( Monza , 1840-1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Bianchi’s family moved from Monza to Milan and he enrolled at the Brera Academy . Having interrupted his studies to serve in the second war of independence, he returned to attend the school directed by Giuseppe Bertini . The award of a grant in…
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Kour Pour, LOVE CHILD, 2010 03 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, # 5
Kour Pour (born 1987, Exeter, Devon) is a British artist of part Iranian descent based in Los Angeles. His father owned a small carpet shop in England, and Pour would spend time there as a child. He also often travelled to Los Angeles to visit family members on his father’s side, and would ultimately move there…
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Louis Debucourt Philibert; CHARGE OF MAMELOUK 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 76
Mamluk is an Arabic designation for slaves. The term is most commonly used to refer to non-muslim slave soldiers and Muslim rulers of slave origin. The most enduring Mamluk realm was the knightly military caste in Egypt in the Middle Ages, which developed from the ranks of slave soldiers. The “mamluk phenomenon”, as David Ayalon dubbed…
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Chant Avedissian; Icons of the Nile 03 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, 3
Chant Avedissian was born in 1951 in Cairo, the son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish incursions in 1915-16. After studying fine art at the School of Art and Design in Montreal and applied arts at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris during the 1970s, Avedissian returned to Egypt. He fused…
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Jewad Selim, Lamea 1 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, 2
Depicting the prominent Iraqi poetess Lamea Abbas Amara, the painting, executed in 1949, is one with which Jewad had a well-documented personal connection, and it remained in the artist’s collection until his passing, taking part in the landmark “Societe Primitive” exhibition at the Baghdad Fine Arts institute in 1952, where it was photographed alongside Selim…
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Mario Schifano; Naked woman 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 57
Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician. He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism. His work was exhibited in the…
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Robert Alexander Hillingford; The Tired Warrior 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 57 – With Footnotes
Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome,…
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