Tag: Feminine
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by Krestniy Dmitriy, with Footnotes. #101
A look through Dmitriy Krestniy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provocative yet sensual style. He understands and respects the art’s body which continuously is at the center of his paintings. His preference goes by drawing with pastels, oil and charcoal to create innovative paintings among which are such style as photorealism where the artist writes such…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Patience and Grief, with Footnotes. #177
The theme of this picture is that of love as a continuum. Stanhope has taken as his title lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act Two, Scene 4, in which Viola, disguised as a page, confesses her love for Orsino, Duke of Illyria. They discuss the nature of love, and whether men and women can love…
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; Gitane à la mandoline/ Gypsy with mandolin; 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #99
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting. In 1825 to 1828 Corot made the…
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Zofia Atteslander, Portrait of a lady, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #98
Zofia Atteslander (12 March 1874 in Luborzyca – c. 1928 in Berlin) was a Polish painter, active from 1889–1928 in inter alia Berlin, Paris and Wiesbaden. Primarily she began studying privately with Jacek Malczewski in Kraków, later with Franz von Lenbach, Heinrich Knirr (1862–1944), with Stanisław Grocholski in Munich, and since 1902 with Adolf Hölzel in…
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Johann Baptist Reiter, Lady Holding Red Blanket 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #127
Johann Baptist Reiter (28 May 1813, Linz – 10 January 1890, Vienna) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter of the Biedermeier period. He spent three years as an apprentice at his father’s company, painting furniture, signs and crosses. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. After 1830, he largely earned his living as…
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NATALIE GOLDSTEIN, QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #97
Natalie Goldstein is a photographer. Having spent years in front of the camera as a model, Natalie developed her own unique understanding of the profession, both technically and artistically. Natalie’s eye is drawn to the aesthetics of the human form, beyond merely the body beautiful. Her subjects are poised and positioned to suggest Da Vinci’s divine…
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JOHN BELLANY, R.A., WOMAN OF ASCHAFFENBURG 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #96
Aschaffenburg is a district in Bavaria , Germany John Bellany CBE RA (18 June 1942 – 28 August 2013) was a Scottish painter. In 1968 Bellany graduated and his diploma show was hailed as great success. After graduation, Bellany was offered a teaching position at the Edinburgh College of Art but he carried on as a working…
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Othman Khuzaim, Untitled 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #94
Othman Khuzaim (Saudi) is one of the prominent names of the first generations of Saudi artists who participated in the establishment of the visual art procession including Al-Saleem, Al-Ridawi, Nabila Al Bassam and Safia Bin Zaqer. He is a graduate of the Institute of art Education for Teachers in Riyadh and holds a Diploma of Fine Arts…
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Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #113
Dorothea Margaret Tanning, American painter and writer (born Aug. 25, 1910, Galesburg, Ill. — died Jan. 31, 2012, New York, N.Y.), was a prominent Surrealist, but her artistic career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, to whom she was married for 30 years (1946–76); her own dreamlike imagery, however,…
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Richard Larter, DONNA IN PARTY DRESS 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #93
Richard Larter (19 May 1929 – 25 July 2014) was an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia’s few highly recognizable pop artists. Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works, and juxtaposing multiple images on…
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Unknown; Anna Pavlova 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #92
Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova (Russian: February 12 1881 — January 23, 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for her creation of the role of The Dying…
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James McNeill Whistler, ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #91
Ellen Sturgis Hooper (February 17, 1812 – November 3, 1848) was an American poet. A member of the Transcendental Club, she was widely regarded as one of the most gifted poets among the New England Transcendentalists. Her work is occasionally reprinted in anthologies. Ellen Sturgis was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1837, she married physician Robert…
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Jean Jansem, Les âges de la vie/ The ages of life 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #90
Hovhannes “Jean” Semerdjian (9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian painter. Jansem’s artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States. A Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002). He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et…
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Stanislaw Stückgold; Portrait of Artist’s daughter Felicitas 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #89
Stanislaw Stückgold (born May 18, 1868 in Warsaw , Russian Empire , died January 9, 1933 in Paris) was a Polish-German-French painter. Stückgold studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic and subsequently chemistry and philosophy in Zurich and the Sorbonne in Paris. After his military service in the Russian army, he worked as an assistant at a state-owned…
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Hassan Hajjaj, Saida, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #88
An example of Moroccan-born photographer Hassan Hajjaj’s pop art sourced from the souks and alleyways of modern day Morocco, ‘Saida’ represents this idiosyncratic artist’s continuing fascination with notions of identity and representation. Appropriating and re-contextualising traditional ‘Orientalist’ views of women, Hajjaj playfully subverts the tropes and clichés of the Islamic world. More on this work Hassan…
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Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian Beauty 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Egyptian Beauty, with Footnotes. #88
Long visited Cairo in 1875 during an extensive trip to Egypt and Syria which began in 1874. This was a turning point in his career when he began to paint scenes of Babylonian and Egyptian history rather than his earlier Spanish subject. Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was an English…
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Charles Camoin, Portrait of Jeanne Loviton, known as Jean Voilier 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #87
Jean Voilier, whose real name is Jeanne Loviton , Was a French publisher and novelist. Jeanne Loviton was born on April 1st, 1903 in Paris, of unknown father. Her mother was an artist known as Denise Fleury. In 1913 she married the publisher Ferdinand Loviton who adopts Jean the same year. Jeanne wass a high…
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Eugen von Blaas, Girl at the Window 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #86
A young woman is leaning against the balustrade of a Venetian home. The delicacy of the rose held in her hand is reflected in her innocent features. Von Blaas strove to capture the inherent beauty of Italian women by capturing them in their conversations in the streets, selling flowers or courting with lovers. The artist’s…
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Gerda Wegener, Danish, Les femmes fatales, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Gerda Wegener, with Footnotes. #85
A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant and hypnotise her victim with a spell was in the earliest…
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