Tag: Fine Art
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Nell Dorr: Tasha Tudor and Child 01 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 23
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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Adel El-Siwi, Umm Kalthom 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2n
Umm Kulthum December 31, 1898, (or May 4, 1904) died February 3, 1975) was an internationally renowned Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab El Sharq “Planet of the Orient”. Umm Kulthum was known for her extraordinary vocal ability and style, and she…
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Giovanni Boldini, Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #33
Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (1874-1944) was an Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist. She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). The latter is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the…
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Sebastiano Ricci, Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Youth 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 115
Saint Anthony of Padua (Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries…
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Max Jacob, Charge of Eastern Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 44
Max Jacob (12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career. He was one of the first friends Pablo Picasso made in Paris. They met in the…
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Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #35
Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (1874-1944) was an Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist. She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). The latter is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the…
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Nathaniel Sichel, The sorceress 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 43
Nathaniel Sichel’s artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the…
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Philip Krevoruck, Women Watching 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #32
Philip Krevoruck, (1919-1999) was born January 26, 1919 in Fitchburg, MA. He was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / China. He is known for abstract urban and industrial scene painting. Krevoruck completed 4 years of college prior to WWII and taught art. The artist is well versed in a variety of extraordinary styles. Particularly known…
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Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
The woman in black, the leering coupler, “in a nun’s costume”, could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, “wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves”, has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. The man, a soldier, in the red jacket is fondling the young woman’s…
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Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Untitled 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2m
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iran, b. 1937) Untitled Oil and metallic paint on canvas 146 x 97cm (57 1/2 x 38 3/16in) Private collection Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (born 1937 Tehran) is one of Iran’s most accomplished modern artists, and as a founding father of the highly influential Saqqa Khaneh movement, has been a pioneering figurehead of Iranian…
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José Cruz Herrera, A draped reclining beauty 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 8
José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August 1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca. His talent was soon apparent and he began formal training in Cádiz. He…
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Parvaneh Etemadi, Woman and Urn 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2l
Parvaneh Etemadi, born in Tehran in 1948, with nearly five decades of lively presence on the scene of visual arts, Parvaneh Etemadi is one of the most successful and popular Iranian artists both in the eyes of art virtuosos and laymen. Even though she was born in Tehran, Etemadi she spent her early childhood in the…
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Gaetano Bellei, Giornata di pioggia, (Rainy day) 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #31
Capturing something of the Belle Époque, Bellei painted a number of large canvases which feature elegant women, either set in glamorous interiors, such as In the theatre and Off to the Masquerade, or battered by the elements, such as Gust of wind and A windy day. These works allow the artist to demonstrate his skill…
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Henri Frédéric Schopin, The halt of the caravan 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 41
Henri Frédéric Schopin was born in 1804 in the north-German city of Lübeck to French parents. His father was the sculptor Jean-Louis-Théodore Chopin, of whom very little is known. Young Henri entered the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros and at the same time followed courses at the École des beaux-arts between 1821-1831, which allowed him to compete…
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Suad Al Attar, (Iraq, born 1942) 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2k
This vibrant work, by Suad al Attar, is electrified through the hyper-realistic rendering of a tree’s root system fanning out from the central trunk like lightning through the sky. The color scheme of intense reds and yellows contrasted with black adds to the visual vibrancy of the piece. More on this painting Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is…
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Jean-François Portaels, The tambourine player in repose, 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 42
Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He is regarded as the founder of…
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Eugene de Blaas, The Water Carrier 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #30
His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice. Eugene de Blaas’ paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons…
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Ray McCarty, Ma’am Are Those Real? 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 36 – With Footnotes
Ray McCarty. As early as the age of five, McCarty began demonstrating his artistic talent. Raised in the mountains of northern Utah, his first paintings were sketches of the American West inspired in part by his outlaw ancestry, The McCarty Gang, partners in crime with Butch Cassidy. Ray graduated from University with a degree in…
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Suad Al-Attar, Tears of the soul 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2j
Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is a renowned Iraqi painter whose work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The British Museum and the Gulbenkian Collection. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions, including one in Baghdad that became the first solo exhibition in the country’s history for a woman artist. Her many awards include the…
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