Tag: Fine Art
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01 Photograph, Germaine Krull’s Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 115
Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During World War II, her leftist political beliefs led her…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Antoine Malliarakis Mayo’s Femme et masque, with Footnotes. #115
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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1 Work, Gayle Porter Hoskins’ The Battle of Little Bighorn
The most significant battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876, The Battle of Little Bighorn involved the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes versus the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Commonly known as Custer’s Last Stand, the conflict resulted in a devastating loss for the United States and the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Francois Gall’s Montmartre, Part 76
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Melville Kelly’s Mokihana, with Footnotes. #112
John Melville Kelly (1879–1962) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the Partington Art School (San Francisco) and with Eric Spencer Macky (1880–1958). Kelly worked for fourteen years as an illustrator for the…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Edmond Aman-Jean’s Nude with rose, with footnotes # 167
Edmond Aman-Jean, pseudonym of Amand Edmond Jean, was born in Chevry-Cossigny November 13 , 18581 and died on January 25 , 1936 in Paris , was a painter , writer and art critic French. Edmond Aman-Jean was a student of Henri Lehmann of the School of Fine Arts in Paris and the classmate of Georges Seurat , with which he…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, with footnotes, #11
Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rainbelongs to a series of fifteen works that Camille Pissarro painted in Paris from the window of his hotel in the place du Théâtre Français during the winter of 1897 and 1898. Pissarro, who had spent practically all of his life in the country and was basically a landscape…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Manolo Valdés’ Odalisque with white and orange face, with Footnotes. #153
Manolo Valdés (born March 8, 1942) is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture, and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony. Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia on March 8, 1942. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Flemish School’s Helena Fourment, with Footnotes. #111
Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She was the subject of a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for other religious and mythological paintings. Helena was the youngest child of Daniël I Fourment, a wealthy Antwerp silk and carpet…
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12 Works, Today, April 19th is artist Emanuel Krescenc Liška’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #108
Fox, Emanuel Krescenc (19 April 1852, in Mikulovice — 18 January 1903, in Prague) was a Bohemian painter and illustrator. Most of his works were on religious themes, but he also created scenes from works of poetry… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Émile Bernard’s AU HAREM with footnotes, #14
Harem a sacred inviolable place; for female members of the family. Harem properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations. Similar institutions have been common in other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, especially among royal and upper-class families…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Omar El Nagdi’s The Grand Market, with Footnotes, #50
Painter, musician and director Omar El Nagdi was born in Cairo in 1931 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, after which he continued his art education in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. In the 1960s, he initiated a series of works for which he is still renowned today –…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon’s Zattere, Venice , with footnotes. #88
The Zattere was built in 1519 and first used as a landing dock for the delivery of timber used to construct ships and buildings, which gave the quay the name Zattere, Italian for raft. The timber gone, the Zattere today is a spacious promenade that runs along the entire southern shore of Venice’s Dorsoduro District, from…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adam Styka’s THE LOVERS, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Adam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) , was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris’ Salon de Paris,…
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07 Works, Today, April 10th, is Gregory V of Constantinople’s day, With Footnotes – #97
Gregory V (Georgios Angelopoulos), (1746–22 April 1821) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St George, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1738… Please follow link for full post
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11 Works, Today, April 10th is artist Jules Girardet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #99
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was briefly kept prisoner on a warship in Plymouth Sound. The harbour became packed as crowds flocked to see their defeated enemy. Now the city is commemorating this most unlikely, and involuntary, of south coast holidays. More on Napoleon in Plymouth Sound Jules Girardet (10…
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