Tag: Cafe
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Elisée Maclet, Rue de la belle étoile 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Jules-Émile Élisée Maclet is famous for his Paris street scenes, much in the tradition that Utrillo would soon follow. Born in Lihons-en-Santerre, Picardie (April 12, 1881), the artist began his career while still a choirboy. He moved to Montmartre in 1906, after his mother’s death, where he began painting the Montmartre landscape, anticipating the themes that…
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Elisee Maclet, Le Moulin de la Galette 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 51 - With Footnotes
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the…
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French School, Eiffel Tower, Paris 01 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 50 – With Footnotes
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed from 1887–1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its…
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French School Early 20th century, Parisian street view under rain 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 48 – With Footnotes
School of Paris refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. The School of Paris was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900…
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Charles Levier, Paris 1 02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Charles Levier, French (1920 – 2003), was born in 1920 of a French father and American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II came along and Levier served in the French…
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Michael Rozenvain was born in Kiev, in the Ukraine in 1963. He currently lives in Toronto. After having studied at the art school of Kiev, he pursued his artistic studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Lvov. Rozenvain has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions. Rozenvain is also very active in the creation of fresco paintings…
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Charles Cobelle, View of Paris 8 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Charles Cobelle, born Carl Edelman (1902–1994) was a modern French master of painting, lithography and a fine muralist, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris. Cobelle received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the University of Munich and continued his…
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Pierre BONNARD, Women at the window 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 43 – With Footnotes
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for…
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Detlev Nitschke, A STROLL ALONG THE BOULEVARD 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
Detlev Nitschke (German, born 1935) is a German artist known for his picturesque scenes developed from plein-air painting into designs for calendars and maps. His work is heavily influenced by both the American Impressionists and his travels throughout Europe and Russia. Born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany, Nitschke studied lithography at Meisterschule Fur Druck & Graphik,…
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Pierre Bonnard, AU CAFE, 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 40 – With Footnotes
Pierre Bonnard, (French, 1867–1947) Title:AU CAFE, c. 1900Oil on Panel29.2 x 29.8 cm. (11.5 x 11.7 in.)Private collection Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings…
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Eugene Segal, Large Café Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 39 – With Footnotes
Eugene Segal was influenced by the works of artists such as Rembrandt, Velasces, Van Deik, France Hals and fellow countrymen Vrubel and Serov. Segal paints with a pallet knife, directly on canvas. Born in 1967 Russia, Segal made the decision to become an artist at the early age of five, and never wavered from his dream. …
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George Malva, Paris Blues 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 39 – With Footnotes
George Malva (Syrian, b. 1957) Paris Blues, 1986 Oil on canvas 32 x 28 inches (81.3 x 71.1 cm) Private collection Omar “Malva” Hamdi was a Syrian Kurdish artist. Born in 1952 in Al-Hasakah, Syria, he worked as a graphic artist for the Syrian Press, where he also wrote articles on an Artistic Criticism. He settled…
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Michael Rozenvain, Parisian Cafe 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 33 – With Footnotes
Michael Rozenvain Parisian Cafe Serigraph and acrylic on board 14.5in. by 12in. Private collection Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris. They have been around since the 17th century, and serve as the meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and networking source, a place to relax or to…
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