Tag: Fine Art
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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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Thomas Saliot, Lips and tongues 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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Dia Azzawi, Marsh Women 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2c
The Marsh Arabs, also known as the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان), are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border. Comprising members of many different tribes and tribal confederations that had developed a unique culture centered on the marshes’ natural resources. Many of the marshes’ inhabitants were displaced…
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Pascale Taurua, Warm evening 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected Miss New Caledonia 1977 , then Miss France 1978 . She succeeds Veronica Bundle, Miss France 1977. She is the 48 th Miss France. A few months after her election, she prefers to return to New Caledonia rather than ensure her role as Miss France…
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Iva Troj, Lamb 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 22
“The painting technique I’ve used here resembles the Flemish method of layering thin veneers of paint between layers of varnish. I start with pencils, pastels, and varnish. After that, I paint a lighter layer with acrylics and finish with a couple of thicker layers using a combination of mediums, often acrylics and oils, but sometimes…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jorn Fox, with Footnotes. #55
Jorn Fox was exposed to art at an early age by his father, an art instructor and abstract painter. Even through Jorn had studied in College he believes that his real education came from many hours he spent painting in his studio. There his canvases offered him unlimited opportunities for expression, exploration and discovery. The varied…
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Eugène Delacroix, Collision of Arab Horsemen 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 37
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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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Indigent Family 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5c
Traditionally, Charity was represented as a mother and children but here Bouguereau gives the theme a new twist as the mother and children are, themselves, in need of charity. A destitute family of a barefoot mother and her three young children sit huddled on the lower steps of the Church of the Madeleine, Paris. The symmetry of…
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon 05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Lisa Lyon, with footnotes # 6
The most-talked-about photographer of the 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe was a belated classicist who understood how to present provocative themes in catchy visual images. After his photographic work with the New York leather scene, male nudes, and erotically-charged flower studies, Mapplethorpe turned his lens on the first female world champion in body-building. The resulting cycle is…
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Gustav Klimt, Isis 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of ancient Egyptians deities With Footnotes – 97 Please follow link for full post
Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt. She was first worshiped in Ancient Egyptian religion, and later her worship spread throughout the Roman Empire and the greater Greco-Roman world. Isis is still widely worshiped by many pagans today in diverse religious contexts. Isis was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well…
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Arnulf de Bouche, egypterin 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 23
Arnulf De Bouche 1872-1945 (German) was the son of the glass painter Karl de Bouché (1845-1920), he received his first painting lessons from his father, then from November 2, 1863, studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Gabriel von Hackl and Paul Hoecker. In 1901 he exhibited his works in the Munich Glass…
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Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #54
The work depicts Klumpke’s companion, painter Rosa Bonheur. Klumpke was also a biographer for Bonheur’s life and work. Bonheur is depicted sitting at her easel and wearing her medal of the Legion of Honor. Bonheur is wearing a “long frogged coat” and a stiff white collar. In her hand is a drawing and on the…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, THE FRUIT SELLER 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 37
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States’ most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world’s most talented “Orientalist” painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 17th, is Saint Alexis Falconieri’s Day, With Footnotes – 48
Alexis Falconieri (1200 – 17 February 1310) was one of the seven founders of the Servite Order, who are celebrated together on the anniversary of his death. He was the son of Bernardo Falconieri, a merchant prince of Florence, and one of the leaders of the Republic. His family belonged to the Guelph party, and opposed…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 16th, is Saint Pamphilus’ Day, With Footnotes – 47
Saint Pamphilus (latter half of the 3rd century – February 16, 309), was a presbyter of Caesarea and chief among biblical scholars of his generation. Pamphilus was of a rich and honorable family of Beirut, in which city, at that time famous for its schools. In his youth he ran through the whole circle of…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 14th, is Lupercalia Day, With Footnotes – 45 Please follow link to full post
Lupercalia was an ancient pastoral annual festival observed in the city of Rome between February 13 and February 15, to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. At the Lupercal altar, a male goat and a dog were sacrificed by one or another of the Luperci, under the supervision of the Flamen…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 13th, is Saint Catherine de’ Ricci’s Day, With Footnotes – 44
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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