Tag: Artists
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Robert G. Harris, LOVERS ON THE BEACH, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Robert George Harris was born September 9, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. Harris studied at the Kansas City Art Institute since the age of fourteen. In 1933 he left Kansas City and drove a motorcycle all the way to New York City. He opened an art studio in New Rochelle at 560 Main Street. His…
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Rasha Amin, Always remember 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 35
“In the real world we find repetitive actions and experiences of violence, hatred, and loneliness. Unfortunately the reality became so connected to the digital world, especially with the rise of social media. As many researches has shown they make us more isolated, responsible for increasing of our negativity, violence, anger and hatred to grow within…
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Emvienne Maria Anvers, Paris on the Roofs 02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Part 64 – With Footnotes
“This painting is a part of my personal collection of art works dedicated to the Parisian rooftops, and as the rest of them a tribute to the their strange beauty, reflecting centuries of life unfolding under them.” Please follow link for full post
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Bernard Dufour, FEMME NUE 03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 41
Dufour cannot paint anybody. He paints the woman he most desires among all the ones he sees. It cannot work without desire. He chooses to represent female nudes, but not any woman, she who touches him the most, his. Dufour speaks about bodies: the other’s body. And by doing so, he speaks about the very…
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Moses Soyer, Seated Nude. 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 40
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer’s brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer’s wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring…
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Juarez Machado, Tango, 2005. 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…
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Hosni Radwan; Jerusalem #6. 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 34
Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad in 1955. He studied fine arts at the University of Baghdad specializing in graphics. He held a number of solo exhibitions in Iraq, Lebanon, Cyprus, Japan and Palestine. Radwan took part in international biennales including those of Berlin, Cairo and Sharja. He left Baghdad in 1979 and headed to Beirut…
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Christopher James; Chez Camille, Paris. 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 63 – With Footnotes
“I was attracted to the look and character of this Parisian restaurant, which is often used by artists and musicians. I found painting the sidewalk and road interesting as well, as it was an strong contrast to the red of the restaurant..” Chez Camille, Paris, is a typical Parisian brasserie, Camille offers authentic and traditional…
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Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal; Shrouded Woman. 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADYr, with Footnotes. #58
Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal commonly known as B. C. Sanyal (22 April 1901 – 9 August 2003), the doyen of modernism in Indian art, was an Indian painter and sculptor and an Art teacher to three generations of artists. During his lifetime he not just saw the partition of the Indian subcontinent three times, 1905, 1947 and…
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Jules Bastien-Lepage, Venise : la nuit sur la lagune. 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #68
Here, the painter produces a highly synthetic painting with great economy of means. An analytical approach and feeling for detail bring it closer to Naturalism. Jeanne Magnin speaks of a “symphony in blue where the artist has not sought to create an effect, but has expressed a personal impression of his only trip to Venice,…
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Robert Philipp, My Model, My Studio 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 39
Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America’s top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, STREET IN ALGERIA 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 66
Street in Algeria amply demonstrates Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s first-hand knowledge of North African life, and the proto-cinematic, highly finished compositions he painted at the height of his career. The work conveys a mood of quiet contemplation, as a rider takes a refreshing drink while conversing in the street, the woman next to him wearing a…
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David Bailey; John and Yoko, 1971 01 Photograph, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Yoko Ono Lennon, (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon. More on John and Yoko David Royston Bailey, CBE (2 January 1938) is an English fashion and…
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Katarina Radenkovic, Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 62 – With Footnotes
“I spent some time in Paris. The most charming is cafes on the streets of Paris”. Katarina Radenkovicis was born 06.April 1972. in Serbia. She is a graduate civil engineer , artist and the student of ITAcademy, direction of Design and Multimedia . Her works decorate homes around the world. The greatest pleasure for me…
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Jurij Frey; Bathers at night 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 38
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always…
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Hosni Radwan; Church of Nativity, Bethlehem 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 33
The Church of the Nativity, also Basilica of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. The grotto it contains holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity,…
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Walter G. Ratterman, A Romany Night 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Walter G. Ratterman (1887-1944) was a twentieth-century American genre painter and illustrator. In the 1920s, he had lived and painted in New York, where the majority of his artworks and illustrations were published. He subsequently moved and lived in Woodstock, New York from the 1930s. Ratterman’s artwork was published in various American books and periodicals between…
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Jean Louis Forain, UNE NUIT CHEZ MAXIM’S 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Maxim’s is a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No. 3 rue Royale in the 8th arrondissement. It is known for its Art Nouveau interior decor. Maxim’s was regarded as the most famous restaurant in the world. Maxim’s was founded as a bistro in 1893 by Maxime Gaillard, formerly a waiter. It became one of the…
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Romualdo Locatelli, Risveglio/Awakening 01 Works The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 37
For Locatelli there are no problems beyond the beauty of the abundance of life. One will find no depth and metaphysical ideas in his work. In a spontaneous manner he reveals the beauty of the body and nature. Here there is no sadness and sorrow that are shown, but their opposite, the beauty and happiness…
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Mahdi Almasi; Allah 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 32
Mahdi Almasi, poet and painter, was born in west of Iran and grew up in the ancient city of Hamedan. Almasi has always been artistically inclined, even from an early age that he gravitated toward art and beauty and involved in almost every aspect of creative art – Persian calligraphy, design, photography, sculpture – before…
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