Tag: Fine Art
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jellal Ben Abdallah’s LA MUSICIENNE, with Footnotes, #61
Jellal Ben Abdallah, Tunisia (1921 – 2017) enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts de Tunis but stayed only three weeks. After winning the first prize in painting and receiving a scholarship, he moved to Paris for three months in 1949. In Paris, Ben Abdallah joined the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse district and also…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Richard Edward Miller’s Lady in Green, with Footnotes. #124
Richard E. Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Steven DaLuz’s Blue Nude, with footnotes # 127
Steven DaLuz (born 1953) is a contemporary American Neoluminist artist known for using chemically induced patinas on metal leaf and mixed media to produce figurative works and imagined landscapes often reflecting upon the sublime as a pictorial theme. DaLuz’s works have been published in art periodicals. Considered “ethereal and transcendent”, his artwork has been said…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nasser Ovissi’s Rakhsh and the Simorgh, with Footnotes, #60
Rakhsh (“luminous”) is the stallion of protagonist Rostam in the Persian national epic, Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. The color of Rakhsh is described as “rose leaves that have been scattered upon a saffron ground” and it is first noticed by Rostam amongst the herds of horses brought over from Zabulistan and Kabul. In this first encounter Rakhsh…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Arthur Breakspeare’s Resting, with Footnotes. #123
William Arthur Breakspeare (19 January 1856 – 8 May 1914) was an artist from Birmingham, England, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. In 1877, he moved…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Suzanne Fabry’s Autoportraits, with Footnotes. #193
This current work recalls classical depictions of female beauty, whilst also calling them in to question. The slight contortion of Fabry’s limbs suggests a certain artifice to the pose, whilst her direct gaze and the prominent positioning of her brush reinforce a sense of authority that pre-emptively rejects any attempt to perceive the sitter as…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Fahrelnissa Zeid’s Metropolis, ith Footnotes, #42
Fahrelnissa Zeid (7 January 1901 – 5 September 1991) was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings with kaleidoscopic patterns. Also using drawings, lithographs, and sculptures, her work blended elements of Islamic and Byzantine art with abstraction and other influences from the West. Zeid was one of the first women to go to…
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36 Works, June 21th. is Henry Ossawa Tanner’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #168
In this rendering of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child, Mary appears melancholy and lost in thought. The infant is almost completely covered by a shroud-like cloth, suggesting a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death. Tanner paid careful attention to details studied first-hand in Jerusalem, where he first traveled in 1898. Tanner was painstaking when it…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Vittorio Reggianini’s Flirtatious Glances, With Footnotes, #78
Born in Modena, Vittorio Reggianini studied in the Academy of Arts of this city, of which he will become later one of the professors. Following the example of the Italian artists of his period, he leaves to Florence, where he participates in 1900 in the Concours Alinari, with a painting entitled « Tristis Matris Nati Presaga…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Stanislas Lépine’s Montmartre. La rue Saint-Vincent, Part #78
Stanislas Lépine depicts here the rue Saint-Vincent, between the vineyards of Montmartre and the place du Tertre, close to the artist’s home, rue Fontenelle. While Montmartre is still an almost isolated village at the gates of the city, far from the modernity of Haussmann’s Paris, two women converse, one leaning against her window, the second…
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09 Works – Maximilian I became Holy Roman Emperor, with footnotes
Maximilian I (1459–1519), Holy Roman emperor from 1493 to 1519, began the restoration of the power of the Hapsburgs. His intense interest in the arts and in public display earned him a place in legend as well as history… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s UNTITLED (LADY), with Footnotes, #61
Louay Kayali, (1934–1978) was a Syrian modern artist. Kayali was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz School where his work was first exhibited in 1952. He met Syrian artist Wahbi Al-Hariri there and the two would share a friendship for the…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, George Elmer Browne’s The Slave Market, with footnotes, #93
Two nude figures draw the eye of both the depicted crowd and the viewer, as they stand in sharp contrast to their surroundings and hint at influences of classical sculpture. The dramatic sky owes perhaps to the work of John Constable with a strong impression of three-dimensional volume and tonal hues. Combining the suggestion of…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Ayman Baalbaki’s Anonymous, with Footnotes, #56
Ayman Baalbaki (born in 1975 in Adaisseh, Lebanon) is a Lebanese painter. He studied at the Lebanese University and at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. His large-scale expressionist portraits of fighters made him one of the most popular young Arab artists. Born the year the civil war started in Lebanon, Ayman…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Legend of St. Ursula’s MADONNA AND CHILD, with Footnotes – #85
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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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Matthew James Collins’ Allegory: Persephone, with footnotes #125
Persephone (aka Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. An important element of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria festival, the goddess was worshipped throughout the Greek world and frequently appeared in all forms of Greek art. More on PersephoneMatthew James Collins was born in…
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01 Work – Painting from Norse mythology, Edward Robert Hughes’ Valkyrie’s Vigil, with footnotes – #6
Usually depicted as warlike and strong, the Pre-Raphaelite-influenced works of Frederick Sandys and Edward Robert Hughes shows them in a more delicate, feminine light. Hughes’ Valkyrie is contemplative. Her face is sorrowful and the misty blue overtones of the painting create a supernatural atmosphere. It is a beautiful yet somber work that indicates she does…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Ilin Stanislav’s Eve, With Footnotes – #53
Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam’s wife and the first woman although she is not specifically named in the Quran. According to the second chapter of Genesis,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Vincent van Gogh’s A Pair of Lovers , Part 66 – With Footnotes
Painted in March 1888, the month after van Gogh arrived in Arles, the present work is an intimate depiction of two lovers walking along the bank of a river. It once formed the central motif of a larger composition depicting a pair of lovers walking along a canal path towards the Pont de Réginelle, known…
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