Tag: Fine Art
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MARIEN MARCEL; Les nouvelles élégances/ The new elegance, c. 1991 01 Photograph, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #56
Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a…
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Hassan El Glaoui; Fantasia 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 64
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…
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Henri Emilien Rousseau; THE SULTAN FROM MOROCCO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 63
Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900 and a travel grant at the Salon of French Artists. He traveled to Belgium, the Netherlands, North Africa, Spain and…
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Allan Douglas Davidson, Model posing 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 34
Allan Douglas Davidson, R.B.A., R.O.I., R.M.S. (1873–1932) was an English painter who predominantly worked in oils and specialized in female nudes. He was born in London on 14 May 1873. His father was the historical painter Thomas Davidson (1842–1919). Allan studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he won a medal and the Armitage…
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DELACROIX EUGÈNE; Odaliske with feline 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 62
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the…
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Ron Hicks; The Discussion 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #54
Ron Hicks ( Columbus , 1965 ) was born in Columbus, Ohio, and is one of four children of a truck driver. He spent his childhood in the quiet and friendly Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado where the family moved when Ron, and his twin brother Don, were two years old. From an early age…
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Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, JANNANE AL ANI, c. 2006 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #53
Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist, born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; A FAMILY SCENE IN KABYLIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, 61
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Igor Semeko, Hug 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Igor Semeko was born in Belarus in 1961, and he studied at the Minsk School of Art from 1976 until 1980. He continued his art studies in the Academy of Art Republic Belarus, until 1986. Semeko specializes in decorative and applied arts in oil, and his works are characterized by rich textures and colors. He…
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WILLIAM HENRY CLAPP, THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 33
William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure – specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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Paul Renard, Paris Street Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Paul Renard (French, 1941-1997) remained faithful his entire life to painting the soft scenes that he saw around him as a boy of the bustling sidewalks of Paris. He applied his sensitive and consuming fascination, with seeking to capture the beauty of French city life and country rivers on canvas as he saw them right up…
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Ezio Ricci; Old Couple 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Ezio Ricci, (Lucca 1885 – 1968), was born in Lucca, a pupil at the local Istituto di Belle Arti, Ezio Ricci showed an early talent for real life painting. In 1916 he was appointed professor of the decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, where he spent seven years working hard but…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 29
Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual. Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British…
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ERWIN OLAF, MILAN HOTEL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 32
These photographs by Irwin feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a discarded shoe or a lit message on an answer phone. Particularly influenced by the early 1960’s, the décor and lighting make reference to this era and are further underscored…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; Family scene, spinners 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 60
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Alfred “di” Cesare; Ultraviolet 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 30
Alfred Di Cesare was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1910. At fourteen he suffered an injury playing football and spent two months in a hospital on bed rest, it was during this time that he began to sketch pencil portraits of the doctors. His family doctor encouraged Di Cesare’s father to enroll his son in the…
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