Tag: Artists
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Elizabeth Elkin, Cafe in Montmartre, La Maison Rose 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 67 – With Footnotes
La Maison Rose is a Montmartre canteen frequented by several generations of artists, Picasso, Modigliani, later Piaf, Barbara, Aznavour, Nougaro, Brel, or Camus … This emblematic place of Montmartre opened its doors at the end of 2017, taken over by a new team, as well as Béatrice’s granddaughter, who bought La Maison Rose in 1948. La…
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Frank Eugene; Adam and Eve 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 53
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that YHWH created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed…
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Marcel Gromaire, Torso with bouquet 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 88
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France. He studied classically at Douai, then continued…
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Ludolfs Liberts; Carnival, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with footnotes, #70
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world famous for its elaborate masks. Ludolfs Liberts, 1895-1959, Latvian, was born in Tirza, Latvia in 1895. He studied art in Moscow and the Kazan Art School. He was…
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Hendrick Goltzius, Unequal Lovers, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Hendrick Goltzius (January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617), was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, noted for his sophisticated technique and the “exuberance” of his compositions. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, Goltzius “was the last professional engraver who…
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Willy Aractingi, Blue Panther, 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 44
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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Albert André, Untitled 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 66 – With Footnotes
Albert André ( 24 May 1869 – 11 July 1954) was a French Post-Impressionist figurative painter. He produced portraits of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his closest friend, and Claude Monet. Born in Lyon, he initially trained there designing patterns for silk. In 1889 he moved to Paris to enroll at the Académie Julian. There he met Paul Ranson,…
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Helmut Newton; Portrait of Olga Rodionova 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 52
Olga Rodionova (born 25 June 1974) is a Croatian-Russian model, an actress and a TV presenter. As a model, Rodionova has worked with some of the best fashion photographers in the world, including Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Terry Richardson, Sante D’Orazio, Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, John Rankin, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Marino Parisotto, Guido Argentini…
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Khaled Hourani, Martyr 02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #71
A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. This refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of the martyr by the oppressor. Originally applied only to those who…
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Khaled Hourani, Farewell 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 43
Khaled Hourani, Born in Hebron, Palestine, in 1965. Khaled Hourani lives and works in Ramallah. He was Artistic Director (2007-2010) and Director (2010-2013) of the International Academy of Art Palestine, of which he is also one of the co-founders. He previously worked as the General Director of the Fine Arts Department of the Palestinian Ministry of…
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Pietro Dandini, YOUNG WOMAN AND THE PROCURES. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
An old woman in a dark robe with a white shawl and a white towel on her hair, above a yellow high hat, turns to a young woman. She also has a stick in her right hand and with her left hand she holds up a purse. The young woman in a bright red skirt,…
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Henry VIII’s six wives 07 Paintings, The amorous game, Henry VIII’s six wives. 50 – With Footnotes
The wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort wedded to Henry VIII of England between 1509 and 1547. The six women to hold the title “queen consort” of King Henry VIII were, in chronological order: Catherine of Aragon, (divorced, died while detained under guard at Kimbolton Castle, mother of Mary I) Anne Boleyn, (divorced and later executed, mother of Elizabeth I) Jane…
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Helmut Newton, Kissing Rue Aubriot 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 64 – With Footnotes
Rue Aubriot is named after Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris under Charles V. The latter is known to have taken measures of leniency with regard to the Jews of Paris. For this, he was accused of impiety, imprisoned in the Bastille, then released by mutineers. He is also the builder of the Bastille, on which he…
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Théodore Chassériau, Ali-Ben-Hamet 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 73
The Haraktas or Haractas are a group of Berber-speaking tribes living in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi and Batna. During the Ottoman period , the tribe was the largest tribe in eastern Algeria. Constantine passed under Arab-Muslim administration around the year 700, and saw its population gradually convert to Islam. France embarked on the conquest of…
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Jean Jansem, Ballerina 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #68
A ballet dancer (ballerina) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on years of extensive training and proper technique to become a part of professional companies. Ballet dancers are at a high risk of…
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Théodore Chassériau, Arab Combat 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 72
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…
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Antoine Bouvard, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #69
Antoine Bouvard, St. Jean-de-Bournay, 1870 – 1956 was a French landscape artist who notably often painted under the pseudonym Marc Aldine. Bouvard remains best known for his renderings of Venetian canal scenes, painted in warm tones and a hazy light that often accompanies the setting of the sun. A typical work is A Gondolier Before a…
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Thuraya Al-Baqsami, ALSAGANEYAT/ PRISONERS 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #69
Thuraya Al-Baqsami (born 1952) is a Kuwaiti artist and writer. She was one of the first active female artists in the Gulf region, where she began publishing her short stories and exhibiting her art works as early as her teenage years in the mid-1960s. She studied fine arts in Cairo, then at the Surikov institute in…
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Jean Dufy, Vue aérienne de Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 62 – 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 music…
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NORMAN LINDSAY, Summer Idyll 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 53
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer. In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney…
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