Tag: Artists
-
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
-
Hedwig Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr), Ekstase 02 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, Hedy Lamarr in kstase, with footnotes # 23
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer…
-
Edward Pritchett, The Rialto bridge 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #57
The first dry crossing of the Grand Canal was a pontoon bridge built in 1181 by Nicolò Barattieri. It was called the Ponte della Moneta, presumably because of the mint that stood near its eastern entrance. The development and importance of the Rialto market on the eastern bank increased traffic on the floating bridge, so…
-
Ralph Hedley, Jack ashore, old Whitby 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea. Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East…
-
Victor Guerrier, YOUNG WOMAN AT THE FLOWER MARKET 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
The young elegant lady in three-quarter portrait on the waterfront of the Seine in Paris in front of the flower market. She wears a fashionable, black and gray dress, a wide-brimmed black hat with a white, over-the-shoulder cloth and her hands are hidden in a fur muff, on the edge of a small fresh bouquet…
-
Hamed Owais, The Harvest 02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 19
Mohammed Hamed Owais was born in 1919 into a peasant family in the small village of Kafr Mansour in the governorate of Beni Soueif, Egypt. There, he received his primary and secondary education before working as a metalworker. He moved to Cairo, where he joined the School of Fine Arts. After he graduated in 1944, he…
-
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, The Flower Girl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #44
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, RA, RBA, RHA (British, 1862-1923) The Flower Girl, c. 1900 Oil paint on canvas 838 x 660 mm Tate The Flower Girl; painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down…
-
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Contemplation 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #43
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of…
-
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, FANTASIA DANS LE SUD MAROCAIN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
-
Edward Pritchett, Santa Marie Della Salute 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #56
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,…
-
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, A MOUSSEM IN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 53
The Tan-Tan Moussem is an annual gathering of more than thirty tribes from southern Morocco and other parts of Northwest Africa in Tan-Tan, a town in south-western Morocco. In traditional Berber culture, a moussem is “a type of annual fair with economic, cultural and social functions.” This Moussem was first held in 1963 to “promote local traditions…
-
Hunjung Kim, Girls inside me No.1117 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 21
Kim Hyun-Jung has made her mark on the Korean art scene by painting outside the lines of how women are traditionally perceived in a rapidly-transforming South Korean society. Kim’s work, which combines the use of paint and paper, is an ongoing series of portraits she refers to as Nae Sung Nyo which is a form of…
-
Marco Cornini, Untitled 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
The artist of desire, essentially, is Marco Cornini (Milan, 1966). Graduated in sculpture at Brera, his hands have almost exclusively modeled female figures for thirty years. In terracotta colored with acrylics, of medium size. Slim young women, long hair, all rather similar to each other, always very little dressed, sitting or half-lying, isolated in space, in a waiting position. Softly (very…
-
Inji Efflatoun, In the Woman’s Prison 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 18
Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women’s movement. She was a “leading spokesman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist spokeswoman in the late 1940s and 1950s”, as well as a “pioneer of modern Egyptian art” and “one of the important Egyptian visual artists” During school, Aflatoun liked to paint and her parents encouraged her.…
-
Antoine Blanchard, Le Moulin Rouge à Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Moulin Rouge, (French for “Red Mill”) is a cabaret in Paris. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the…
-
Badri Narayan, Untitled 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Badri Narayan (22 July 1929, Secunderabad, India – 23 September 2013, Bangalore) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the…
-
Nabil Anani, Vision 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 17
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and…
-
Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
This boulevard saw its construction prescribed in 1676. It was built and named after the church Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle. The execution of the alignments approved by the royal decree of May 15, 1832 resulted in the removal of the impasse of the Message Boards. The Rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis. Part of rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis were absorbed…
-
06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 20
Patricia “Patti” Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is an American model and actress. She was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14. After Gert took Hansen to a party hosted by Wilhelmina Cooper, former model and owner of the Wilhelmina Models, Cooper signed the teen to her agency. Hansen soon moved to Manhattan, enrolled at…
-
Sliman Mansour, A Family Without a Shadow, c. 2018 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 16
The overwhelming significance of the physicality of Jerusalem as a national symbol permeates many of the artworks. The iconic representation of the Dome of the Rock comes to the fore as some artists celebrate the city Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held…
Zaidan Gallery 