Tag: Fine Art
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13 Works, February 15th. is artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #046
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (15 February 1831–13 June 1 June 1894) was a Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects. Nikolai Ge was born to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather who was a French nobleman immigrated to the Russian Empire…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Susanna and the old men. With Footnotes – #145
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Carol Jerrems’ Vale Street, with footnotes # 153
A quintessential image of the 1970s, ‘Vale Street’ has lost none of its capacity to enchant and disturb in the intervening years. In one sense it can be read as a sociological document; in another as a wholly subjective work of art. Like the mediumistic spirit-photographs of the nineteenth century, Jerrems’s photo seems to disclose…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Art, Eugène Péchaubès’ Fantasia, with footnotes, #83
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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19 Works, The Art Of The Nude by Norman Lindsay, with footnotes # 241
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879–21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, February 12th. is artist Adolphe Yvon’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #043
Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Shortly after the end of the Crimean War in September 1855, Yvon was commissioned by the French government to paint a…
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22 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded February 8th, 1587, with Footnotes. #185
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542–8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. During her…
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16 Works, February 7th. is artist Henry Fuseli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #038
The painting depicts the pivotal moment in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (act 1, scene 3) when the protagonist encounters a demonic trio of witches who foretell his fate. Fuseli revels in the play’s ominous mood, tripling the motif of hooded head, extended hand, and sealed lips of the mannish figures, whose appearance is taken directly from…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Louis Magre’s Banks of the Seine, Part #79
Louis Magre was born in Paris in 1955. As a teenager, he studied drawing and architecture, which he gradually gave up to concentrate solely on drawing. He currently lives in Provence, an area which fascinates him and which he loves to admire and paint. At the beginning of his career, he drew nudes and portraits…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Simone Leigh’s Las Meninas, with Footnotes. #70
Simone Leigh (born 1968) is an American artist from Chicago born to Jamaican parents who works in New York City. She works in various media including sculpture, video installation and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
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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18 Works, Today, February 4th. is artist Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #035
Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, or Alessandro Rizzoni (4 February 1836, in Riga — 29 April 1902, in Rome) was a Russian painter of portraits and genre scenes; mostly on Catholic themes. He was born to an Italian family of artisans. He received his first lessons from his brother Pavel (1822–1913), who was also an artist. In 1852, he…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 43
John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872–26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. Born in Madras, Byam Shaw’s father John was the registrar of the High Court at Madras. The family returned to England in 1878. Baymam showed early artistic promise, and in 1887 he entered…
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12 Works, Today, February 3rd. is artist Robert Edward McGinnis’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #034
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment) (See below), Barbarella (See below), and several James Bond (See below) and Matt Helm films……
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Andrea Vaccaro’s Sant ‘Agata, With Footnotes – 123
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Edwin Lord Weeks’ A cup of coffee, with footnotes, 82
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were able to finance their son’s youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys…
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03 Works, Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes – 31
Saints Cyrus and John (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge. Cyrus and John were both Alexandrians; this, however, is contradicted by other documents in which it is…
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19 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Artists’ interpretation of Tamar with Amnon over the decade, with Footnotes. #182
Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), known in Italy as Niccolò Renieri, was a painter, art dealer and art collector from the County of Hainaut, a French-speaking part of the Spanish Netherlands. He is often referred to as a Flemish artist because this term was often used to designate people from the Spanish Netherlands. After training in Antwerp,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by Krestniy Dmitriy, with Footnotes. #101
A look through Dmitriy Krestniy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provocative yet sensual style. He understands and respects the art’s body which continuously is at the center of his paintings. His preference goes by drawing with pastels, oil and charcoal to create innovative paintings among which are such style as photorealism where the artist writes such…
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