Tag: Fine Art
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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84
K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until…
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157
Cui Xiaodong’s works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong’s colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate…
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05 Works, February 14th, is Lupercalia/ Saint Valentine’s Day, With Footnotes – #45
In a refined contrast with a material background, the delicate and idealized line of Maria Rachele Branca , which distinguishes her style in the lyricism of a mythologized folklore, suspends the scene in the allusion to the invasive sound of the flute which bewitches the nymph sitting on it next to. And precisely in underlining its…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Dina Larot’s Virgin, with footnotes # 154
Dina Larot is a 20th-century Austrian painter. Known for both her landscapes and erotic female nudes, Larot’s stylized aesthetic is marked by the influence of earlier Austrian masters, the painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Her figures in particular recall the elongated forms and intimate sensuality of the Vienna Succession artists. Born in 1943 in Vienna,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Edouard Manet’s The Dead Christ with Angels – with footnotes #195
Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious scenes, in the inscription on the rock: the Gospel according to Saint John. However, in the passage cited, Christ’s tomb is empty except for two angels. After Manet sent the canvas to the 1864 Salon, he realized that he had made an even…
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04 Works, February 11th, is Our Lady of Lourdes’s Day, With Footnotes – #42
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a “lady” spoke…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pegah Samaie’s Defiance, with Footnotes. #161
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed…
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16 Works, Today, February 10th. is artist Francesco Hayez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #041
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Follower of Angelica Kauffmann’s Holy Family – with footnotes #193
Angelica Kauffmann, in full Maria Anna Catharina Angelica Kauffmann, (born Oct. 30, 1741, Chur, Switz.—died Nov. 5, 1807, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), painter in the early Neoclassical style who is best known for her decorative wall paintings for residences designed by Robert Adam. Her early paintings were influenced by the French Rococo works of Henri…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Archangel Eliel and Ángeles Arcabucero – with footnotes #194
The Cusco School or Cuzco School, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It was not limited to Cusco only, but spread to other cities in the Andes, as well as to present day…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Rochegrosse’s IDLE MOMENTS, with footnotes
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (2 August 1859 – 7 November 1938) was a French historical and decorative painter. He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Moretto da Brescia’s The Entombment – with footnotes #193
Moretto’s last major work, this altarpiece was commissioned by the Brescian confraternity known as the Disciplina di San Giovanni Evangelista for their oratory adjacent to the church of the same name. It hung on the upper story of the building which, as was typical in the city, was divided so that men and women could…
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, With Footnotes, #81
Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in on the shoes themselves in the present work from Private Property Suite II. Beginning an exploration of what high heels represent in society, he investigates the way class presents itself through footwear. Newton later went on to photograph x-rays of feet in high heels…
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20 Works – February 5, 146 BC Punic Wars ended; as did the power of the great Hannibal Barca, with footnotes
The Battle of Zama in the summer of 202 BC marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca. With its greatest son, also Carthage should be at a virtual end. True, it should limp on for some time, but with its defeat at the end of the Second Punic War it no…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ender’s Danger inflammable, with Footnotes. #160
Mixed media: torn posters and a stencil made with a spray can mounted on canvas. During his interventions on the walls, Ender collects posters. Most often, he uses the reverse side of these posters, which thus keep the imprint of the previous poster. These are broken down into more or less large pieces, like an…
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Shakir Hassan Al-Said’s UNTITLED (TOWN), with Footnotes – #5E
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative and influential artists. Born in Samawa, Al Said lived, worked and died in Bagdad. In 1948 he received a degree in social science from the Higher Institute of Teachers in Baghdad and in 1954 a diploma in…
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