Tag: Fine Art
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05 Paintings, The amorous game, The Unequal Lovers, Part 76 – With Footnotes
The theme of unequal lovers has a long literary history, but in the visual arts it most often appeared in prints, usually accompanied by a moralizing inscription. The theme took two different forms, that of an old woman soliciting a handsome young man, and, more commonly, an old man soliciting a pretty young woman. Here…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nasser Ovissi’s Thorses, with Footnotes, #47
Nasser Ovissi is an American-Iranian painter whose work is characterized by stylized figures of Arabic women and horses. Set amidst geometric patterns and decorative elements, his figures seem to merge into and out of the space behind them. “My work is dedicated to the beauty of life and I hope those who experience my work…
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03 Orientalist Paintings, Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes, #100
The title of this painting refers to the Arabic word analeim, meaning learned woman, which originally applied to professional female improvisers of songs and poems. By 1850, the term meant virtually any woman dancer. Their alluring dances, accompanied as shown here by musician playing a two-stringed cello. European travelers came to think of these dances…
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1 Religious Icon, Sano di Pietro’s Saint Margaret, with footnotes #16
Margaret is celebrated as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches on July 20 and on July 17 in the Orthodox Church. Her historical existence has been questioned. She was declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I in 494, but devotion to her revived in the West with the Crusades. She was reputed to have…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138
Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his…
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09 works, Today, August 28th, is Moses the Black’s day, his story illustrated #240
Moses the Black (330–405), also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian , and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. Moses was a servant of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hossein Kazemi’s Tar Player, with Footnotes, #46
A Tar is an Iranian long-necked string instrument, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures. This is in accordance with a practice common in Persian-speaking areas of distinguishing lutes on the basis of the number of strings originally employed. More on a TarA leading and pioneer Iranian Modern artist, Hossein Kazemi moved away from the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Gabrielle Renard with Footnotes. #132
Between 1907 and 1911, Renoir painted several canvases that depict Gabrielle Renard, the principal model and muse of his late years, loosely clad in a semi-transparent white chemise that falls open to reveal her ample form. In the present canvas, Gabrielle is seated at a small mirrored dressing table, languorously adjusting a scarf in her hair;…
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8 Works by Louis Icart, Honoré Daumier, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, , Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, with footnotes
Louis Icart Laurent Justin , born in 1888 in Toulouse and died in 1950 in Paris , is a painter, engraver and illustrator. Impressed by its designer, his aunt made the move to Paris: she showed his work to the House Valmont, milliner to the Belle Époque . Louis Icart was then introduced in the illustration media for…
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19 Works, Aug 19th. is Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #196
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, VICTOR GABRIEL GILBERT’S At the Flower Market, with footnotes, Part 77
At the Flower Market, in contrast to many of Gilbert’s compositions, is set in one of the smaller flower stalls in the French capital. In the center of the composition, an elegant young lady deliberates over her choices for the day, testing the fragrance of pink roses, watched and perhaps encouraged by the stall’s proprietor.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Circle of Hans von Aachen’s The Last Supper, with Footnotes – 188
It is interesting for me is the artist’s blatant incorporating Mary Magdalene alongside Jesus. The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”. The…
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01 Religious Icon, A saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix, with footnotes #15
Ivory, carved in relief. Representation of a saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix. In the lower area depiction of a skull (Memento-Mori). Several cherubim appear in the upper area. More on this relief The Flagellation, in a Christian context, refers to an episode in the Passion of Christ prior to Jesus’ crucifixion. The practice of mortification…
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09 works, Today, August 15th, is the Dormition of the Virgin Mary day, her story illustrated #227
Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836–8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Román Ribera Cirera’s Leaving the ball, with footnotes, Part 76
The present painting typifies Ribera’s work of this period, with the elegantly dressed women being directed towards their cab after having attended a formal occasion. Here, Ribera focuses the viewer on his highly skilled rendering of the central figures’ clothing and their sumptuous fabrics and fur. Although his later work took on a more social…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry, with Footnotes. #143
Portrait de Marjorie Ferry was painted in 1932 in the artist’s studio on rue Méchain in Paris. Marjorie Ferry, a well-known British chanteuse performing in Paris, is the quintessence of Jazz Age glamour, coolly seductive and unmistakably modern. In fact, there is something of the ocean liner about her streamlined, metallic glossiness. Standing by the…
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02 Orientalist Paintings, Hugh Joseph Ward’s Desert Madness, with footnotes, #99
Hugh Joseph Ward (March 8, 1909 — February 7, 1945), is primarily known for the “Spicy” cover art he did for pulp magazines. His paintings for these covers almost always portrayed a beautiful woman (often modeled by his lovely wife Viola) fleeing for her life from a thug or some fiendish monster or another, sometimes in little…
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